Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
https://sway.office.com/z7Q0K3L5AQUC4HGZ?ref=Link%3C/span%3E%3C/span>
Self-regulation involves students developing the ability to regulate their emotions, thoughts and behaviours to enable them to be functioning in a positive way in the world. Self regulation is a fundamental goal in the class that makes any kind of activity and transitioning possible and encourages well being. I apply the following self regulation strategies in the classroom:
Allowing student breaks/to move away from group if they need to
Increasing predictability and making expectations clear
Staggered starts and finishes if required
Individual workspaces
Sensory dietsEnergy regulation
Do you need to power up or power down to help you engage in interaction?
We all need different strategies to help us with our energy regulation.
Feeling well-regulated can look different for everyone.
Task in groups-how would you support regulation during?
Transition from bus to classroom
Transition from yard to classroom
Transition from circle time to snack time
Transition from classroom to PEHow I can use digital technology in my classroom to enhance learning?
Using Power Points and games that are engaging, offer bulleted information, link to videos, using educational app such as Kahoot, posting homework assignments online, using classroom tablets and keeping informing myself on assisting technology available
How can I apply SSE guidelines to my own teaching?
By using technology in an appropriate and relevant way that is educational and useful to foster the students independence and awareness. To identify wellbeing as a focus, to gather data and analyse it following a non biased method and use the data to infer judgements and apply new strategies and reflections.
What impact can developing your own use of digital technology have at school level?
I think it has a very positive impact on the school collaboration, sharing resources, collecting data and store it, providing training opportunities for new staff, creating consistency fostering creativityI think OneNote is a great tool for note taking, every student could personalise the way they took notes, with pictures, drawings, tables, schemes, attachments and make it a creative project. It is also a great tool for making calculations and develop students independence. It shows teaching objectives and learning intentions in a clear, visual way and with the different chapters it shows step by step how to reach the learning goal. It is useful to upload assignments for students to complete and submit electronically and giving feedback is very straightforward and it’s a great tool to build mind maps, It is great that I can add polls and quizzes into lessons to check the understanding of the topic. It helps me organise my lesson plans on a weekly and monthly level and get a deeper perspective and a greater chance of reflecting on my work.
We use Microsoft teams daily in my school to share resources, assignments, assessments within the school.
We also use Microsoft teams to chat, group chats and to host external speakers, this represents an extremely useful function especially when organising interviews or training sessions or when working from home if relevant.
This function was very useful during lockdown but I often found it tricky to navigate and not as accessible as other programs, when I was teaching in a mainstream school I found it quite difficult to manage especially because students were using the chat function to chat to one another. I now teach in a special school and I am not sure how this app could be made of easy access for my students as it appears quite complex and not of immediate understanding.
C:\Users\SeleneFitzsimons\Downloads\Ma famille.mp4I think Forms is a good tool to gather data in a classroom or group setting, to create custom forms, surveys, polls and quizzes to make better informed educational decisions and more accurate feedback. I work in a special school and I think to use this app for polls and quizzes would certainly be useful in my class, it’s very intuitive and extremely visual and it would help my students to be able to express themselves in a very direct way.
Sway could be considered as a digital portfolio in which every student could highlight their written and visual or artistic work and share it with peers through games of show and tell for example. My students love to create digital storybooks to tell about their weekends/ outings/ favourite characters and this would be facilitated also by simple and intuitive settings.
https://sway.cloud.microsoft/hJ10nkB7yQmO7muL?ref=Link&loc=mysways
