ESF Snapshots from the Foundation 2014

My role on this Snapshots group has been one of supporting and working alongside Luke. Working together at QBS has enabled us to meet and discuss, to share ideas and reflect on how to make them manageable. We have considered what our main focus is going to be and how we can best work within the constraints of a busy timetable. Luke is the PE specialist teacher and sees each class once a week in the playground. The logistics of what we wanted to achieve needed to be considered carefully. After much discussion and reflection, Luke decided that he wanted to focus on various year groups and various PE Units. The students needed to consider their own learning and by setting clear goals, check their progress. Using success criteria list and rubrics, the students were able to work more independently. They were learning to become their own teachers. The students were encouraged  to ask questions and to set clear goals. Working in pairs, they assessed each other and, with collaboration and reciprocity, positively supported each others learning. Luke was able to build on ideas already being used in the classrooms, such as graphic organisers to tune students in. Building on what they know and presently use, focussed the students straight away. Using visual resources, such as posters, vocabulary banks and Ladders of Achievements allowed the students to deepen their thinking and understanding. Through all of these engagements, Luke has been developing the idea of a blog which other teachers, particularly PE specialists, can use as a reference point. The work he has done is all evidence based and shows the distance travelled for our students. It also shows how Luke has empowered our students to make a difference to their own learning.