Target Road Staff PD 2018

General admin comments: Reports should already be familiar content to the parents. If you make a statement in the students' report, you need to be able to discuss how/when you have talked to parents about this in the past. Reports may have a way to assess student progress against the curriculum, e.g. english, maths, science? and a general statement regarding key comps, SOLO, etc. and how they relate these things to their individual learning Prize Giving Discussed how we should structure the awards

Glenfield Intermediate PBL meeting – Oral Language Linda and Anne from Longworth Education Linda – Developing oral language in junior classes How many of you have a student with an oral language age of around 3-4? Think about how many times that you have a conversation with the children in your class during the day; a real conversation. Not talking to them, not giving them instructions, but sitting down and having a conversation. Many schools don’t have the time to sit down and have a conversation. Statistics show that to raise oral language, we need to have conversations with our students and they need to have conversations with peers. Not about filling their heads with information about oral language, but instead get them speaking. Research 88% of the time teachers have a role-given right to speak to anyone. Students have limited opportunities. 6% is spontaneous non-legitimate speaking 6% is allowed by teacher. High achieving classrooms, teachers talk about 55% of the time...