VP 2: What do your teachers need to know about how you learn? / How do you learn best?
For more info on this project, go to the Friday Vox Pop Blog.
I put up a few posters around school last week (this post and episode are a bit late!) so the students had some notice on what the question would be for Friday. I found though, that the way I had phrased it “What do your teachers need to know about how you learn?” seemed to be a bit hard and was stopping kids from answering. Quite a few refused and some even ran away! So, in trying to get the students to answer and to make it easier to understand that I was really just wanting them to tell me about how they learn, the question ended up being “How do you learn best?” I got a lot more relaxed responses and “Oh, I know how to answer that!” replies when I did that.
Have a listen…
NEXT (THIS) WEEK’S QUESTION: What could teachers do to help make school more interesting?
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Where Has This Week Gone?!
I had many plans for many blog posts this week and got none of them written! School has started back, and so the craziness has taken over my life again 
It is just nuts how consuming teaching can be, and how rushed. There is little time in the day for anything other than being in the classroom, and yet there are so many other things we are expected (and want!) to do. It brings back to me the thoughts of taking it slower, and making things easier. I’m getting better at that, but still have a way to go.
I am rapt to be back at school though and have had a great few days - which even included sleeping over at school last night with the year 7s. We’ve only got 17 of them this year and they are just a fantastic group. There are a few interesting personalities that I’m sure will come out a bit more, ans we’ll just have to see how that goes.
I haven’t written anything here or at technoLOTE this week, despite promising I would (for technoLOTE at least), but I have managed to get a new project off the ground. Yes, yes, I know, maybe I should not start so many things. But, to be honest, I just can’t help myself. I have started Friday Vox Pop. Each Friday, for the first half of lunch I have yard duty. This year I will be taking my iPod and voice recorder out with me and asking different students a question about their learning and our teaching. I was out there today and the question was simply ‘What are you looking forward to learning this year? Most kids responded really well (I edited the ridiculous ones) and I’m sure they’ll get used to me asking them things and sticking my microphone in their faces!
To read more about Friday Vox Pop, go to the blog or straight to the podcast page or subscribe through iTunes - although you may need to wait a couple of days to do that as I only just submitted it and it takes a day or two to be approved. I’d love some feedback on it if you’ve got the time!
So, as I recover from my busy week, I turn to my reader and see the mountain of things I want to read, and I’m writing blog posts in my head as I type. Better get to it!
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