Like many others at the moment, I am struggling to throw off a cold and cough which has left me with almost no voice. Knowing that we have several people off already I have been struggling on and it has been quite an interesting experience.
I have been forced to adopt quite a different teaching style in many lessons. There has been a lot less whole class interactive teaching with me at the centre. As a scientist it is quite easy to get pupils working in groups based on practical tasks and I have certainly been doing a lot of that. I have also had them working in groups on less practical tasks and it has really worked well with them having the opportunity of feeding back to the class.
Today with a Y8 class I did little more than take the register at the start and then letting them get on after sorting out suitable groups. It was quite interesting to see how some groups were quite confident at getting on whereas others seemed a little lost at first without me telling them what to do. They definitely need more practice at making decisions!
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