Guest Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Hi, I work in F2 in a school in special measures. We are in the 2nd year of inspections- I have just had the LEA inspectors in today. Everything was good, but she said i should now try to get even more out of my more able. She said activities were good but HOW can I get even more out of them?????? HELP The objectives are differentiated into 3 outcomes for every lesson- i am racking my brains and am stuck. Is there a clever person out there that can help me please??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 It sounds like you are doing a lot already if you are planning for three different activties! I would say that writing a question on your planning to extend thinking for children say on the carpet or at a focus activity is a good way to extend thinking. E.g. If you have been foucsing on making number sentences you might say to your more able - ther answer is 11 what could the question be? Keeping activities quite open so that children can extend their thinking. I would also say keep in mind what the more able would need to know next so that if they had secured their learning - perhaps explain there work to a friend. or setting up the environment so they can have a go at what they have learnt within the context of an activity to a play situation (although this is not always easy!). I would also say from experience that I worked with achild who was very bright but who had poor social skills, so we worked a lot on turn taking and not getting upset when faced with a problem. Sometimes there is a tendency with managers/advisors who may not be 'foundation stage focused' to want to make things more formal but I think there has been a lot of work recently in ensuring FS going up rather than bringing year 1 down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 we add key questions to our plans following a hierachy of thinking skills... what? how? why? what if? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 Thank you for those ideas- they sound good. We can never do enough can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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