We just had the INSET day couple of days ago - well straight after the holiday. I find this an amazing idea of starting the work at school after holiday. You get chance to catch up, chat with people, be more casual and most importantly tune in into the work. So your next day, day with students in is definitely less stressful.
There were few interesting things on that day. Behaviour for Learning as one of them. Well, many will say, that this is too worn, too old and very little new we can hear. That is right. Most of the ideas about consistency, boundaries, humor and mutual respect etc. are old. And they are coming back again and again. And that is what is important. May be that session wasn't anything new or groundbreaking. But it was - consistent. And there was the opportunity to refresh, re-motivate ourselves...
SEAL - or as (apparently) they are going to call it again - Social and Emotional Aspect of Learning. Again, maybe this is nothing new there, but still, it is worth as we can see thing again and maybe from different point of view. And get the chance to see how other people might see the problems.
The last session was about How to use Teaching Assistants in the lesson effectively. Something I was looking forward to (It doesn't apply to me directly as I do not plan the lessons, but I want to know a bit more). There were two information I have learned:
There were few interesting things on that day. Behaviour for Learning as one of them. Well, many will say, that this is too worn, too old and very little new we can hear. That is right. Most of the ideas about consistency, boundaries, humor and mutual respect etc. are old. And they are coming back again and again. And that is what is important. May be that session wasn't anything new or groundbreaking. But it was - consistent. And there was the opportunity to refresh, re-motivate ourselves...
SEAL - or as (apparently) they are going to call it again - Social and Emotional Aspect of Learning. Again, maybe this is nothing new there, but still, it is worth as we can see thing again and maybe from different point of view. And get the chance to see how other people might see the problems.
The last session was about How to use Teaching Assistants in the lesson effectively. Something I was looking forward to (It doesn't apply to me directly as I do not plan the lessons, but I want to know a bit more). There were two information I have learned:
- We do not know what impact TA have on students' results. (No research has been done on that)
- The best model to use (from the video we have seen) is TA gets told what is going to happen and what resources need to be made... No direct involvement in planning and no creativity of professionalism (of TA) used. Good as a starting point. But is that really where we want to be at the end?
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