Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Session One  Mindfulness Meditation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfWK6hvUjEg  There are four processes involved in mindfulness: 1. NOTICE and attend to the experience  Recognise the symptoms...e.g. the tiger of anxiety may feel like fast breath, not being able to sleep, an unsettled stomach... 2. Make space for it ....be ok with experiencing it! 3. Respond skillfully (rather than REACT habitually) 4. Over time, grow a greater understanding of what makes wellbeing Likewise, mindfulness is a strategy for not being caught up by the 'monkey mind' (brain chatter!). WHY?  Emotions (negative and positive!) pass in 90 seconds BUT our internal dialogue stops them. Our self-talk keeps an emotion inside our heads and our 'now' experience. STOP the self-talk; BE AWARE of the feeling and LET IT PASS. ANXIETY: triggers the same fight, flight or fantasy that real physical danger does! THE DAILY PROCESS:  1. Set a time 2. Find a relaxed, alert position 3. ...

January 2016 Key Take-Aways ( and what I will do  this  term ) * One size does not fit all * Learning goals underpin but shouldn't drive learning ( i.e. leave the learning intention until after writing...START with the stimulus!) * Enthusiasm for learning & for writing * Fill up the room with  GREAT  writing, and fill their ears with the sounds of great writing. These include exemplars of expected/quality writing at students' level * Effective teachers  read, write  and  know: How words are formed;  the processes and strategies writers use;  structure  and  features  of major genres *  Hold high expectations for students * Min  20 minutes per day   independent writing   -  this could include speed writing, e.g., 1 min to plan; 5 mins to write where pencil isn't allowed to leave paper *  3 types of words:   Looking  (find on word card, dicti...

February 2016 Murray's Planning for N.E. - Year 2 1. Devise / decide a topic with the children - have a STIMULUS OR MOTIVATION prepared e.g. picture book then ask students 'what else could we write about this' ;  open ended sentence e.g. 'My dog did something terrible!...';  language experience; 'the funniest thing that ever happened to me...' 2. TELL the story (with passion!) - EXCITE KIDS! 3.  Show student planner. Prompt for language  With NE students, do lots of oral language, e.g. 'ni-ni-nibbled'  Discuss and write up some of the CONTENT words - e.g. nibbled, shoe etc modelling 'have a go' writing/spelling 4. Develop a success criteria with the students, using picture codes e.g.   = say my story before I start 5. Writing time! Send independent writers off to start. Keep focus group with you, and construct shared writing with explicit focus, based on students' needs (i.e. for my focus students at...