Kim Sowman Professional Growth Cycle 2024

  Action Planning and Testing Ideas is where you plot out a plan of what will happen when and how this could look. Setting up a plan and testing some of your ideas before you implement the plan allows you as the teacher to branch out and try things that you might be unsure of. This also allows you to be more critical when reflecting on what you feel will serve you well in this inquiry. Testing ideas is something that can continue through the entire inquiry and is only placed within this section of the inquiry cycle as a starting place. Room on the Broom WALT: Practice encoding cvc/cvcc words eg cat, dog, mud, frog, hat, and . Teach the Who ( characters from the book chose which ones) doing what ( choose) where ( the broom) and some more information. The learners are experiencing success as they are supported by a familiar structure. We read the book daily so they know the story well. Pictures are provided to remove some of the load. However they are able to add details if they w...

  Action Planning and Testing Ideas is where you plot out a plan of what will happen when and how this could look. Setting up a plan and testing some of your ideas before you implement the plan allows you as the teacher to branch out and try things that you might be unsure of. This also allows you to be more critical when reflecting on what you feel will serve you well in this inquiry. Testing ideas is something that can continue through the entire inquiry and is only placed within this section of the inquiry cycle as a starting place. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am currently waiting for my BSLA training to start. I have, however, started with the weekly vocabulary elaboration read aloud. In my writing, I am attempting to use the read aloud book as the basis for our writing by picking books with good cvc opportunities. I have also been following Number Agents (  A pas...

Hypothesizing and Reflecting is where we create our inquiry question. It is important to create this using what your students have shown you and what you have reflected on yourself about your practice. Once you have created your inquiry question it is important that you hypothesize what the answer/findings might be and what you think will happen. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Writing in junior classes  often falls heavily on personal narrative. I have started to look for ways to move from this, taking into consideration the cognitive load for some learners  when asked to think of a story, draw a plan and then get down all their ideas with no real structure to learning what they are writing.  The physical act of writing is also hard for some. Holding a pen and forming letters is not automatic. I think that our learner would benefit from a  structured writing prog...

  Noticing and Investigating is one of the key practices in the art of inquiry. True inquiry teachers see themselves as investigators of learners and their own teaching practice. During Noticing and Investigating teachers observe and listen to learners while they draw conclusions about what is going on for each learner and how their teaching practice impacts what their students are showing. Once we have unpacked this information and reflected on it then share it in collaboration with other teachers we gain further insight and perspective.  In short, we bring an inquiry stance to our teaching. Class of 2024 Observations - continually updated and reviewed 25 children - 8 girls 15 boys/ 8 girls 16 boys/ 9 girls 16 boys 1 child with glasses 1 child with x2 baha ( lost and not replaced term 2) 1 child diagnosed adhd 1 child strongly opposed to ‘learning’ and can articulate this 1 child who finds sitting still difficult 1 child with global learning delays Erratic attendance x 3 Han...