MR Tracker - getting started March 18, 2008
Posted by Mhairi Stratton in : East Lothian, Learning, Mr Tracker , trackback•Initially ‘roam the known’ - Choose activities similar to the assessment interview to start with
•Plan daily - include 4-6 progression activities
•Consider and hypothesise about the current ways of thinking based on an initial interview or early lessons (OBSERVATIONS)
•Test your hypothesis by posing tasks and closely observe response
•Modify your hypotheses if necessary and continue the cycle
•Monitor children’s willingness to tackle the problem and how comfortable they are
•With practice and reflection teachers can learn to adjust in subtle and important ways the pace, difficulty and challenge in the tasks.
•Tailor the teaching as closely as possible to the initial and ongoing assessment. It should be at the cutting edge of children’s knowledge (ZPD)
•Activities should continually challenge with the aim to bring about reorganisations in the child’s thinking and the development of more sophisticated strategies.
•Use the skills of wait time, repeating, reposing and probing responses which you learned in the assessment phase.
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