Ok, so I have thought about what I would like my goal to be for this term.  As we still have this big focus on writing, I thought it would be interesting to compare two classes and their attitudes to writing - especially for an audience.  I would like to see if the children’s like/dislike of writing changes when they know that there is an audience of people outside of their classroom - particularly their teacher - reading their writing, if they enjoy it more, put more effort into it and if their overall attitude improves.

In order to do this, I will survey a class of children (yr 5 and 6) about their attitudes towards writing (similar to the one they have already done) but include a few questions about audience and the perceived audience.  I will then ensure, with the help of the classroom teacher, that they continue to blog regularly (if not daily) throughout the term.  At the end of the term I will survey the children again and see if their attitudes have changed either negatively or positively.

Ok so I know I’m a little late getting round to blogging this week. I know that we said that we would have it done by the SUnday night so I truly suck and it’s only one week in….how on earth am I going to last a whole year of getting this done….I WILL GET THIS DONE!!

So one week down (not really counting week one c’os it didn’t really count for us - go specialists!!) and I still don’t know what my goal for this term is going to be. I would like to think that getting routines established isn’t going to take as long as last year, and not being able to do what I wanted to last week because of the lack of the student disk, meant that I was able to set up all the kids on their “own” computer and get the rules etc sorted without the pressure of getting some work done. We’ll see this week how well I did at getting that all sorted!!!.

Okay, so now I need to come up with a goal for my professional practise. It seems a little hard to verbalise something at the moment. I find that because we have such a short time with the kids, who are wanting to be here and are engaged for the whole time, that it’s been really easy to get into a “lazy” teacher mode. I want to improve something, but as everything is going so well, I am finding it difficult to figure a goal out to work on….

Okay so now it’s Monday afternoon after our QLC. I think my goal is going to be based around blogging and getting it into the senior and middle classrooms. I think that I need to think and articulate the actual goal…also am going to need to get the teachers in those classes on board…help how do I get the teachers on board??!?!?! They will get to see and learn how the blogs work during ICT but how do I guarantee that they’ll do it their classes away from the structure of the suite??

Comments…questions….