It's about time we burst the bubble

On the Eve of Term three getting underway, I can't help but think about bursting the bubble. We all know what it's like to be in a bubble. Sometimes the bubble is our classroom... our syndicate... or even our school. In order to improve our practice, we really need to step out of our comfort zone, just as we ask our learners to.

This term a co-teacher & I are sharing the load a little, by collaborating in literacy. We will combine our two literacy classes, then each take either reading or writing for the week. We intend to swap each week so that we are both teaching each curriculum area, however we will focus on teaching one area to the equivalent of two classes.

We came to this idea after discussing our collaborative four. We are questioning whether dividing the learners into four sub-classes and then taking them away to teach them is the best collaborative practice we can come up with. So for this term, we are going back into two's for literacy (as we did last year for all learning). The benefits are that the learners have more students to collaborate with... Learners can be more specifically catered for by merging groups and pulling out sub-groups as needed. 

This term, I am also going to Share a bit more, of what we are doing, with the outside world.

  Putting it out there to our Learning Community

Sometimes a bubble needs to be burst by using sharp objects from the inside!