All my pupils are able and gifted and I strive to design learning that meets their individual needs. The iPods help with this because when I'm thinking on the hoof and responding to the needs of pupils as they arising in class I have resources available at the tap of the screen.
This was true yesterday when an academically able pupil was about to start her writing assignment, a non- chronological report, a task that I had planned with the whole class in mind. As soon as I started to explain the task to her I realised how ridiculously easy it was and how many times she would have completed such tasks in previous year group lessons.
We talked together and decided that to support this pupil's interest in fiction with a scary theme she would write a non-fiction report on English folklore. I like the way this work is challenging her to distinguish, in a more subtle way, between fiction writing tasks and non-fiction writing. I also think it will develop further her understanding of the fiction she loves to read now. Ultimately in would be good to see her becoming more open to an increasing number of fiction genres and to start making more mature reading choices.
She is starting with boggarts and a has mission to discover the origin of the boggart and the classic English folk tales about them. She has her Safari web browser to help and I can email her some links to websites that will help her - all made possible with iPod Touch.
This was true yesterday when an academically able pupil was about to start her writing assignment, a non- chronological report, a task that I had planned with the whole class in mind. As soon as I started to explain the task to her I realised how ridiculously easy it was and how many times she would have completed such tasks in previous year group lessons.
We talked together and decided that to support this pupil's interest in fiction with a scary theme she would write a non-fiction report on English folklore. I like the way this work is challenging her to distinguish, in a more subtle way, between fiction writing tasks and non-fiction writing. I also think it will develop further her understanding of the fiction she loves to read now. Ultimately in would be good to see her becoming more open to an increasing number of fiction genres and to start making more mature reading choices.
She is starting with boggarts and a has mission to discover the origin of the boggart and the classic English folk tales about them. She has her Safari web browser to help and I can email her some links to websites that will help her - all made possible with iPod Touch.
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