As part of hosting at Yaldhurst I also was involved in facilitating a discussion for junior teachers.
My blurb was:
Junior School & Technology - If you would love to catch up with other junior teachers in the cluster to chat about how people are 'doing' technology in their classrooms then this is the place for you! You might want to get some ideas of what people are doing, what is working, what isn't working or maybe even how to start. No teaching here, just a place to listen and share. Chocolate will be provided.
There had been some discussion at the last E-Leaders day that the junior teachers in the cluster where finding it difficult to engage with technology as there wasn't the same support that the 1:1 Year 4+ teachers were being given. As a current junior teacher I felt that we could address this as a cluster by starting some conversations between schools and opening up the collaborative networks.
We started with a simple slide as a starter. Sharing who we were and what we are doing began a flow on effect where discussion was created around apps that we were using and success we heard. There was one other school attending, but with 5 teachers and things simply flowed as the teachers talked and showed different tools. Both schools were learning from each other and at the end email addresses were exchanged between a few teachers.
I felt that the hour had been successful as I saw YMS teachers learning from others and excited about the possibility to share and visit another school to see how they were making things work. For the BT at school there was learning about a programme we had introduced but she hadn't fully engaged with. She is now using it and excited about how versatile it is.
My own learning was developed as I heard others share what they are doing in class. Hearing the way Seesaw is being used has helped me to feel more confident in encouraging others to use it as a tool to communicate with parents.
My discussion starter slide:
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