Teacher modelling!

Benefit of having Teacher Modelling.

Modelling is a good way of sharing your knowledge with others. On Monday the 27th of July, Mrs Sharma was demonstrating how to teach writing in my classroom. By the way I am teaching a year 2 and 3 class for the first time and I am still finding my way around in the junior classes. I am really fortunate to have Mrs Sharma as a team leader because she has the experience in the junior classes and she is also able to share her knowledge through modelling.

She started off by reading a story book which motivates and also engaged the students attention. She also used the context and the visuals to draw out the vocabulary such as muddled, confused and lonely. During her reading she often stopped and questioned students to check their understanding for example how does the little Monkey feel when she lost her mum? The children were pretty focused because they were able to answer her straight way. The lesson flowed which was really great to see. She moved on straight from story reading to brainstorming ideas using the Y chart. The students had come up with lots of describing words for the story. She asked them simple questions that stimulated their critical thinking.

I have really enjoyed this observation because I was able to follow her lesson step by step from the beginning up to the end. Before this observation I found it really hard to plan the writing for this level. Earlier I used to find writing sample for the same level but the language was still too advanced for most of my students. But this worked really well because the story was short and very entertaining and had lots of describing words. She also gave them some sentence starters which helped them to start their draft.

During the teacher conference time, students were able to reflect on their WALT and success criteria. They were able to identify if they had achieved their goal or not then give their reasons for their answer. There was one thing that Mrs Sharma has always reminded me of is’ think/pair/ share’ which allows my students to share their ideas. I found it really hard to plan for writing at this level earlier but now I feel confident with my writing lesson and am pretty happy with what I am delivering since then.