Designing+Coherent+Instruction

Members: Fran, Valetta, Di, Ben, Louise, Ursula, Phil, Marg There has been a lot of discussion among our team. It took us a while to decide exactly what we were considering for this point! Di provided a handout about Blooms taxonomy for our second meeting. Ursula set the pace early by volunteering to have a lesson taped for analysis. We discussed how she could set up the task (examining wool to determine its quality) and suggestions were made as to how to maximise the impact for the students. This lesson was then analysed by the team afterwards. Valetta followed with a segment of her class using direct instruction. Teaching in a scripted manner led to some interesting discussion. Ursula provided some handouts on differentiated teaching which Hilary had sent to her. These were distributed for reading and sharing.