Rita Palmer - Team Meeting - Student Agency

Date:	24.5.17
Focus:	How are we going - what questions do we have?
Big Idea:	Student agency
Key Ideas/Messages that informed/or challenge my teaching practice	Focusing on the ‘Why’ is the key to helping students take risks and engage in what they are doing. There is no set format for how a writing programme should look. Depends on students needs. It is no use teaching writing skills in isolation as students rarely see the point. Creating a genuine purpose for writing is the key and then the skills can be identified and applied from there. Having a topic for writing can help create a purpose. Students are more interested in learning a skill when they know they are going to need it. Accountability is important. Shared Writing does not have to happen every day.
Implications/Actions for my teaching practice	I plan to introduce a topic and have students decide what text type they might use to write about the topic. This will help give clear focus areas for each workshop. Shared reading can also be used to focus on text types spotlighting on the features of each type. Workshops can focus on writing skills and how they look in that particular text type