• 12-15
• Boniface

In the first version of this I wrote that technology seemed to be against me this week (no colour printers working, dvd`s not being recognised) and now I managed to saved that version without categorizing it, so it has gone off to live somewhere in cyber-space, and here I am re-writing my reflection.

In the first unit of work, in answer to your question Alexander, I feel that I did not focus enough on ENV, or certainly not clearly enough, and I am still unsure as to the best ways to do it in the new units that I am starting. At the start of new units I always like to try and establish prior knowledge, and to allow students to analyse the art that I am introducing. In this case Grade 6 will be looking at Roman mosaics and Grade 7 will be learning about possible consequences of global warming. I have decided to start with two already established thinking routines - Headlines, and Connect, Extend, Challenge. These two will give me information about where the students`s thinking is at the start of these topics, so I can measure if their thinking has changed at all during the course of the units.

I would also, colour printer permitting, like to include a sorting task but was wondering if there was any other way to include an ENV task at the start of this unit.