Context+-cohort

 CONTEXT (120 words)

- Need to select a year from 3-6 - Need a mix of gender and needs - Number of lessons? - Duration of each lesson - approx 50 min

Skeleton of cohort - I suggest a cohort of 24 Year 3 students, as this can easily be divided into groups of 2 and 4 for small group work. 60% girls and 40% boys. 3 boys with individual learning plans - a teacher's aide or SSO will have some time allocated to assist one these students, To address these students' learning needs, tasks will need to be engaging and able to be adapted to suit their individual capabilities.(18/1/10) in particular, with this core work. 5% of the class requiring extensions, 30% of class requiring detailed modelling/direct instruction/peer support, therefore recommend heterogenous groupings. (17/1/10) Do we need to mention if students have a basic/advanced/ average literacy skills?(18/1/10 ) - The unit of work could be a 4 session (2 per week over 2weeks) exploration into ....[writing????]...... (each of our lesson plans could then address an aspect and flow on from the last - thus creating a unit of work). (17/1/10) - 6 computers in the classroom will meet their IT/collaborative/presentation needs. (18/1/10)

We will need to be very concise as these initial suggestions already equal the word count. (17/1/10).

**How about something like this..**.

 This unit of work is designed for a year 3 class containing 24 students, 14 girls and 10 boys. It is envisaged that extension will be required by six students, and detailed modelling/direct instruction by eight students (three of whom have individual learning plans). To address these learning needs, tasks will need to be engaging and adaptable/flexible to suit individual student capabilities. Heterogenous groups will be utilised to encourage effective peer support. A teachers aid is allocated six hours in class to support one of these students. All students have basic literacy and ICT skills and have access to six computers in the classroom. This unit of work contains four lessons of 50 minutes each, over a two week period exploring fictional and non-fictional texts.

(18/1/10)

Sound good Kimberley Yes Kimberly - I have added some, hope you don't mind. This is also pretty spot on for word count. (20/1/10)

Hi there everyone could you please read the below context I have put together and let me know if there's anything you would like added, taken out or changed. Hopefully I am on the right track. Of course I will type up on a word document and post in the collaborative assessment link, let me know what you think, cheers. Group 25 Literacy Unit Plan Exploring imaginary and non-fiction texts. This unit plan is aimed at a grade three/ four class comprising of eighteen males and ten female students. This unit of work will be spread across two weeks with four fifty minute sessions. We will be exploring imaginary and non-fiction texts to gain understanding of how different texts work. Texts used will be chosen by suitability for this age groups prior knowledge and experiences. Reading and responding to these texts that entertain, inform, report, explain and present opinions will cover the curriculum for literacy learning. We will be identifying some of the values, attitudes and beliefs that are represented in these texts. Learning and behavioural needs have been planned for through instructional objectives to provide positive learning outcomes. Broad instructional objectives that relate to students knowledge, skills, and values allows a socio-cultural approach that incorporates many teaching strategies. Modelling, sharing, interactive, guided and independent learning enables inclusive learning for all levels of student abilities when de-constructing and constructing texts.( 19/1/10) Angela you have some really good points in here, the part highlighted with yellow I feel may be more appropriate for the rationale as you have provided some details about what and how we will be teaching - which is great because it means we have a start on another section of our assessment. I have copied this to the rationale page so that it can be expanded upon. (20/1/20)

Excellent at least we can use this in the rationale, are we all agreed upon for Kimberly's context? sounds good to me, if so will type up and post thursday if this suits everyone? (20/1/10) It's a yes for me, thanks Angela - you should be able to copy/paste straight into the discussion board create message.(21/1/10)

No problem will do now.(21/1/10)

L ooks good, thanks Angela. Remember its all of our work and we can make changes if we want I'm sure this1st post is just to make sure we have started(21/1/10)