#10 Develop a rich profile of relevant aspects of your current teaching

Develop a rich profile of relevant aspects of your current teaching. This profile will be used formatively to help you design an intervention and summatively as a baseline on which you can judge shifts later

At the moment, writing is happening every day without fail which is great! We have timetabled it into our week so it is always in the first block and therefore not moved around. We are planning rich writing opportunities that connect with our concept of diversity which has engaged and hooked our learners. 

What is happening in the writing programme? 

The writing process is used as a guide for planning and we ensure that every writing opportunity follows the whole process.

During the planning phase of the learning process, we hook and engage learners by offering them a range of experiences such as science, art and drama that are integrated through concept learning. Once they’re hooked, we build our knowledge about a particular genre through videos and looking at examples of good pieces of writing. We then start to plan our ideas using a planning template. 

When we move on to the crafting stage, we look at a success criteria for what makes a good piece of writing and model a few sentences as a group. The success criteria is partly co-constructed but ideally, I would want learners to support this part more. The learners are then able to go and independently craft their own piece of writing. As a scaffold, I tend to model each paragraph with the whole group at the start of each session before they independently write. 

The refining stage is still something I find difficult. I often model how to edit and refine writing using CUPS and ARMS as a guide. I find that because learners are all at different stages of their writing that this stage can often get lost or not taught well enough.

I usually decide whether or not to publish the writing based on how far they get with their writing or whether they feel it is a piece they are proud of. This is also a space that I hope to improve. 

Attached is an example of my planning for a travel brochure.


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