After looking at the schools New Entrant and year 1's KLST tests we realised, as a team that our students had poor oral language skills. To remedy this we joined up with the local Kindergarten to express our concerns. From these meetings we decided to introduce discovery play into our learning programme. We all take responsibility for an activity then we allow the junior children to pick an activity that they would be interested in. The children attend this activity for approximately 3 seeks then they are allowed to change. We also change the activities around termly. It is still in the infant stage but we have found the children are highly engaged, they mix socially and their oral language has improved. The 5 students in my class that were 4 or below in the the KLST test are now at 6 and above. below are some photos of the children enjoying the sand and water experience and the 'junk' session.
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For reflections made on my Mind lab experience see the following link:-
karen-and-teaching.weebly.com I had a group of low readers that were making slow or no progress so I decided to look at my teaching to see what I could improve on to help this particular group. I decided that my book introductions were quite rushed to time restrictions with the timetable so I needed to spend more time on this. Below is my TAI.
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