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Cute little rhyme that helps kids remember the vocabulary of averages.
Friday 30 January 2015
Expectations
I firmly believe that students will generally do what is expected of them. That is, if I have high expectations, they will generally rise to meet them. This year I really wanted to focus on my students having high expectations of themselves.
I have a very small group of 17 year seven students this year, which is lovely. Yesterday, as they walked into our learning space wide eyed and more than a little anxious, I started a conversation that I hope will set the tone for the coming year.
I constructed a Y chart entitled "our expectations", with each section label 'of ourselves', 'of each other' and 'of Mrs G...'.
Their responses were exactly what I would have written had I been filling in the chart myself, and I think their expectations of me are spot on.
I have a very small group of 17 year seven students this year, which is lovely. Yesterday, as they walked into our learning space wide eyed and more than a little anxious, I started a conversation that I hope will set the tone for the coming year.
I constructed a Y chart entitled "our expectations", with each section label 'of ourselves', 'of each other' and 'of Mrs G...'.
Their responses were exactly what I would have written had I been filling in the chart myself, and I think their expectations of me are spot on.
Friday 9 January 2015
Blog Hiatus = Over
Apparently doing things like going on maternity leave then returning to almost full time study isn't conducive to blogging.
Time to dust off the old blog and get back to it.
Time to dust off the old blog and get back to it.
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