I took the classes for the two history sessions and have my age old problem of dominating a room. If you do not take control of the class of 32 children then your ideas, your communications do not get clearly transferred. This is were I really have to rely on the skill / expertise of the teacher.
Otherwise the first session was a success, the children feedback their top story idea (which was my expected story lines). Good to hear from the children though. & good to hear they remembered things from 2wks ago!
But found out the histroy class can not now move into a computer suite to produce their newspaper! I presumed we would be moving onto computers, but as always it is bad to presume things.
Lesson to learn – confirm things doubly (as always) – could we have booked computer suites earlier – would it have that been possible?
i.e. can we book a suite over a GCSE class? Was this a mistake in not booking a suite earlier?
As things stand we will be using 12 computers that are quite slow in the library, these will have to be shared amongst the 32 children, so I’ll have to plan for group work.
