Day 2

another successful day today in year 4: a bit more apprehensive going in this time because i knew what i had to face and getting up in the dark emotionally drains me!

But once I got into school all was well. I began to observe behaviour management with specific observations of children with learning difficulties. It's good to see the different techniques which the class teacher uses as well as the one-to-one classroom assistants to actively engage the children and to keep them on task while ensuring that they are focusing on their own work and not distracting others around them.

It it is interesting to see the run up to Christmas in the school as lessons are very much interrupted and the class teacher does not really know from one hour to the next what lesson she will definitely be able to teach. It gives a good insight to what this would be like in my own classroom; teaching that as a teacher you need to be flexible. It was really good to see our class teacher adapt her lessons to fit the school timetable and how she used every minute of time to be engaging the class and ensuring that they made progress even in the small sections of time they had.

One thing which I liked to see was if there was 5 minutes to spare the class did a "beat the clock" with times tables. The focus is very much on moving from the five and ten times tables to threes and progressing to sixes; and using small amounts of time to put bursts into concepts that need to be learned and memorised in order to introduce more advanced mathematical concepts.

Cross-curricular

This was seen in the topic of the plague and the children continued to plan different aspects and sections of their stories learning the structure of a novel. E.g. Introduction, rising action, problem, reacts, solution, conclusion.

it will be interesting to see in the run up to Christmas how rehearsals interact with lessons and how the English stories progress to their end of term assessment.

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