Global Competencies Tracey Toovey

 TUNING IN AND MAKING CONNECTIONS. The hardest aspect of the process for me so far is trying to have my students think differently and start to make connections. They seem to get stuck in just giving me the obvious answers, with little detail and one to two word statements. This week we are going to make our focus on elaboration. I want them to start thinking of multiple viewpoints and to start challenging their previous ideas. I have really enjoyed being part of the Ron Ritchhart Making Thinking Visible PL over the last three weekends. Even though it was a really early start!!! I have started to make connections in the way I'm thinking and my approaches to inquiry. I only have my Year 4 Enrichment students for 60 minutes this week but want to challenge myself to get through a new routine and to engage them in a new Tech Tool. I've chosen the CONNECT, EXTEND, CHALLENGE routine. (Ron Ritchhart: The Power of Making Thinking Visible pg 221 and Kath Murdoch: Thinking Routines (The ...

  Creating Routines My plan this week is to try out a few of the routines discussed in the PL: ‘Making Thinking Visible’ Series with Ron Ritchhart from the weekend. I have a few students that were struggling to find their voice, so I chose the Chalk Talk (Page 76-82 The Power of Making Thinking Visible Practices to Engage and Empower Learners)  The focus was on engagement, building understanding of the topics they were starting to investigate and creating a forum for independence and responsibility to the task for each of the group members.  What is ...........? Explore a provocative question (beginning of a unit of inquiry) I began with a short explanation of the routine Chalk Talk we would be using.  We discussed the rules of the routine. RULES *             Silent task *             Creating a written conversation .    ...

I have been a bit slow getting on to the blogging side of things so I am going back now and looking over where I am and where I'm going. Apologises if my blogs are all out of order. Introduction to my project. History: As the Global Citizenship coordinator I have spent the last few years working with our staff to embed the SDGs into what we are teaching. Our school displays them around the school and refers to the them often.  My Year 4 Enrichment class came with a prior knowledge of the SDGs but I wanted to not just focus on the ones I felt they were familiar with but to really get them to show their understanding of the goals and to start making links. I had spent a bit of time last year researching an age appropriate set of SDG books that could be used in the classroom. I have attached this list of books on one my other posts on the UNAAWA. I thought this would be a good introduction to my project. It also gave them an opportunity to do some research into what a global citizen i...

Critique  This is not part of my current Year 4 project on Global Competencies but it linked well with the work I am doing with my Year 3s who are currently finalising their first drafts for the Design an Ad competition. I liked the way Chris Harte put a strong importance on not just critiquing others but also yourself. I explicitly spent time building in structured critique: ● Be kind (but realistic)  ● Be specific (focus on the parts to make the whole better)  ● Be Helpful (feedforward)  I started with a template for them to follow but next time I would ask the students to create their own questions to what they would want feedback on. Next I want to start looking at developing some growth ladders. These I feel will be wonderful tools for goal setting with my Enrichment students.