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[ajbark-literacy-blog]

PROMPT 2

When I think about persuasive writing structure, my mind always wonders back to this idea of “burger writing”. This is the way i was taught to write persuasively, and it has stuck in my head all of these years! Therefore it must be a somewhat effective reminder for students who are learning about persuasive writing! There were several templates/posters of this idea online, however I found most of them very difficult to read. For this reason, I made my own version. Furthermore, this poster is completely editable, so I can add different aspects of writing to the mini checklists.

[the-ones-who-care-blog]

Graham Sattler’s “You’ve Got the Music in You”: on leading school choirs

Leading a choir at a primary is no easy task, and it may be difficult to know where to begin or how to gain the confidence to continue! Luckily, I found this journal article released back in 2017 which is aimed at classroom teachers from K-6 who are facing this very predicament.

This is taken from The Journal of Professional Learning (JPL), an online journal heeded by The Centre for Professional Learning (CPL). I’m sure many of you are familiar with this group thanks to their many amazing professional courses available to all in the NSW Teachers Federation. 

The great thing about this article is that Sattler covers a whole range of topics such as reasoning to support the benefits of choirs in primary schools, the basics of conducting, and on picking out songs for the choir. Perhaps most interesting is Sattler’s references to the Kodaly method as a way to solidify a student’s concept of relative pitches using tonic sol-fa. Pictures of the Curwen hand signs (the different hand signals for each different pitch of the major scale) are also included.

Hopefully this article is useful to you all. I would be curious to know which elements were the most practical, and even if you do have concerns or questions which were not answered. My own question would be around the practical logistics, benefits, and issues of having piano accompaniment versus recordings; or even carrying out rehearsals acapella!

-SW

Reference

Sattler, G 2017, You’ve got the music in you, Journal of Professional Learning, <https://cpl.asn.au/journal/semester-1-2017/youve-got-the-music-in-you>.

[Click here] for more on CPL and [click here] for more articles by the JPL

[the-ones-who-care-blog]

Hi everyone! We are so excited to announce the professional development day we have been working on and share with you what it is all about and how you can get involved. It is an all-inclusive day that we are able to bring to your school to provide resources and information to teachers about how to integrate music into your classroom. The basic run down of seminars and events is included on this run sheet and if there are any questions feel free to send them in to the ask box on this page or directly to our email.

[king-beard]

Science experiments are the best. #teaching #science #scienceexperiment #experiment #skittles #worthing #westsussex #sussex #education #primaryteacher #primaryteaching (at Worthing, West Sussex)

[jtpeters7-blog]

During my first rounds of professional placement this year I was placed in a grade 1 / 2 classroom where the class was beginning to develop the skill on how to make inferences to stories on book covers and in sentences. The students were building inferences on what they know already in the story and what clues are given in the pictures and/or the story to what might happen or where the story setting is. Below is a classroom display in which I created in class as a learning intention poster to be shown at the front of the class to be referred to during lessons to remind students of what the student learning goal was for the session. This is a display I will use into my professional teaching career as I am a firm believer in having engaging displays that students can refer to and be stimulated by to enhance their learning. I believe having learning intentions as a classroom display is a fantastic idea to implement into a routine to refer to before beginning each session across the day, or to re-engage students who may become off task.

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[swagisonme]

To see myself smiling in front of these small chikitings. I feel so blessed. Wish granted! Happy sunday! ©te melot #primarywave #primaryteaching #lds #iamamormon