PIECE OF STRING

I am redesigning my blog. I have created a ning that will serve the purpose as a central meeting place for students, so this will be my place. A place of reflection. To share things I like as a teacher, ideas and the like. Resources I find useful.

First to reflect on my first full week of 2009.

VCE Drama/Theatre Studies: Finding teaching both at the same time … challenging. Students are eager and keen which you would assume at year 12. Looking forward to staging a theater night later in the year as part of their outcomes.

Year 8 Drama: We are going to be paperless. I am utilising Penzu for tehir jounals and the students lapped it up. They email me when they update, it’s great. We will work towards creating a play to show at the primary school next door.

Year seven english: Students are so eager it is delightful. They apologise straight away if they have forgotten something (to be expected first week) I love when people have ownership of their mistakes.
I hope I can continue this personal skill as part of their learning.

Year eight english: A lovely class, they listen. Again I hope it is not just because it is the first week but they seem to be great kids. We started SOLDIER IN THE HILL. I am reading it to them, will find other ways to assess their reading at this stage. Perhaps as their confidence grows they will read.

Year 10 English: Just learning names really with circle time. Did some work in English Essentials. Their spelling seems quite low.

5 elements of a short story

I’m not very arty – so I need all the help I can get.  I love this website because it helps me do what I find to be fascinating drawings.

Here’s one I did to represent the Year 9 text ‘Guitar Highway Rose’.

You could use it to add pictures to reports or presentations or cover pages, whatever.