Here is what Vanessa and I did today in our PLC. First, we both registered to attend the Calgary Reggio Network Association Meeting happening on March 4th. We are excited to attend this meeting and to move forward with our learning around the Reggio approach. We are also hoping that this meeting will give us some ideas and inspiration for moving forward with our PLC work by continuing to incorporate Reggio-based philosophies.
We then took a critical look at some recent student work and, much like a report card, looked the the areas of strength and growth within the task and made an action plan for how we would like to move forward. We would both like to have our students write more narratives about their pictures and journal entries, but because of their limited experience with writing we cannot just assign large writing tasks. In the past, we have had students dictate their stories to us and we write/type them out. However, with 45 students at such varying ability levels it takes an extraordinary amount of time to get through all of them, and by the time we get to the last few most of them have forgotten their story or idea anyway. Hence, we took some time to look at various technologies that could support our students in expressing their stories and ideas such as Dragon Dictate, Powerpoint, and iMovie. We learned that some of these programs are more "user friendly" than others, but are both keen to try them out in our present unit. This is an exciting prospect for us because we know that when our students draw a picture in their journal, for example, that there is a whole story and thought process happening behind it, we are just looking for a realistic and effective way of helping them to document it!
Thanks,
Heather and Vanessa
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