Tania's Professional Learning Blog

Moving into an Innovative Learning Environment can be very overwhelming and scary. But as I look back at our syndicate and team members and what we have achieved during the pandemic and everything we had to adapt to and reinvent or change to make it work - we are AMAZING!!! We had to quickly adjust our planning to make it user friendly for the students at school as well as students that are isolating at home and feeling up to it to do learning, hence HYBRID learning. At the time we didn't realise that it was just the beginning of our ILE journey.  Take aways from Hybrid Learning: Importance of TRUST in a team Importance of COLLABORATION in a team Importance of COMPROMISE in the team Work with each others' STRENGTHS Being able to LISTEN to advise and change where applicable Our Hybrid Learning model soon became our normal planning and it is great to see the passion getting back into the teachers' eyes, not spending hours over a weekend doing planning by yourself. We also sta...

 New/Old ways of filling the gaps With my New Entrants starting school this year I soon realised that there was a big gap in their foundational skills and Oral language. This is concerning because the students need to have some alphabet letter and sound knowledge to start with reading and writing. They should be able to recognise their name and have basic number knowledge too.  With the isolation periods for most of the children the start was not perfect and they had to adapt to school all over again. We adjusted our teaching plan and focused on doing a lot of just hands on activities, which includes fine and gross motor activities, to build their phonological knowledge and number skills. Even though we didn't do a lot of structured learning as such because of numbers and teachers isolation it gave us the chance to get to know the children and their needs well enough to form a perfect plan starting Term 2. We would have filled most the gaps and hope to start a proper more stru...