Today, I have taught my first Computing lesson of FPP, focusing on Google Classroom and writing Google Docs. I would definitely recommend that teachers use Google classroom, as it has helped my class to become more digitally literate, and developed their peer-feedback and collaboration skills. Our LO was 'to add features to a Google Doc', and our success criteria were: I can / am beginning to… ….add a table to my report ….add new rows to a table …share and comment on work After handing out laptops and getting the children logged into Google classroom, we discussed the LO and SC, and how these link to the Building Learning Power skills. This approach is used across the school, and includes the main skill areas of resilience, reciprocity, resourcefulness and reflectiveness. We agreed that the children would be using the skills of collaboration, making links and perseverance. I like this approach, because it ensures that the children are really clear about what learning skills they need to be employing. Last week, the children wrote reports about our school trip to MOSI on Google Docs. They added text and photos. This week, they added tables and wrote a timetable of the day. After I modelled this on the board, they were very independent and created colour-coded, complex timetables. I also used this opportunity to encourage children to develop their report writing, and add key language features such as fronted adverbial phrases and more complex tenses. After adding tables, the children shared their work to our Google Classroom. They then peer-reviewed each others work against our success criteria, leaving comments in the shared work area. The children showed a great understanding of the criteria, and set suitable targets, including 'try to use more paragraphs to explain instead of just photos'. After this, I encouraged the children to respond to the feedback, and develop their reports even more. This was a great example of children taking on formative assessment, and using peer feedback to develop their work. There are a few children in the class who are particularly able when it comes to Computing. I targeted them by requesting that they included hyperlinks in their report, and used the thesaurus tool to develop the vocabulary. The extension of the children's vocab is currently a big target in year four, and so this tied into this focus very nicely.
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I have just started my FPP placement - only 12 weeks until QTS! I will be posting much more about the placement and my experiences, but as an update:
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