Classroom+Practice+and+Web+2.0

__2010-2011 ESL Support Teacher and Mother Tongue Coordinator, Qatar Academy, Doha, Qatar__ This role involves: modelling lessons, contributing to planning sessions, working with individuals and small groups, promoting the idea of support being inclusive, checking and standardising the language of assessments and discussing student progress with teachers, parents and administrators.

Skills utilised in this role: knowledge of the PYP and the language needed by children to be successful in it, ability to communicate clearly, flexibility, cooperation and the ability to work with a range of teachers and other support staff across ten different classes.

This is a photo taken in a session I helped plan and facilitate in Grade 4. As part of their pre unit assessment we worked with groups to look at pictures linked to their central idea and used three concept questions (form, function and responsibility) to access the children's prior knowledge and find out any misconceptions. This gave me a view of their level of subject specific vocabulary. It gave the children a chance to share without having to the pressure of writing.

This voicethread shows the process for developing the PYP skills in child speak. media type="custom" key="15400714" align="center"

**2009-2010 Grade 4 Classroom Teacher and Team Leader** ​


 * Using web 2.0 and other digital tools have allowed the children I work with opportunities to create, collaborate and communicate more effectively. From wikispaces to moviemaker, children now have a choice of tools they can use to help them learn and share. over the last few years we have been implementing a 1:1 laptop programme in Grades 2-5. **

 Click here to see the grade level wikispace which I maintain to help my grade level share assessment criteria and resources with each other and our students. This is for a Unit of Inquiry on Water.

 The main goal for my year group this year has been to get our children's **e portfolios** up and running. All classes are using a range of digital tools. As a team we decided the best way to bring their work together and help them to reflect and share was using a wikispace. Here is an example of child's [|e portfolio] focussing on the PYP Learner Profile and attitudes.  Below a student who is leaving my class used authorstream.com to share a powerpoint  she had made using photos from the year so far, again based on the learner profile. The next step is to record explanations and reflections onto the slides.  media type="custom" key="5795027" width="60" height="60"

 We regularly use bubbl.us as a brainstorming <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> tool in the classroom, particularly at the start or end of a unit to try to organise ideas and knowledge. This is a screen shot of two brainstorms about the advantages and disadvantages of using netbooks in the classroom. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This is an example of an <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ebook <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> which my class used to reflect n their experience at school camp. The kids loved putting together the text and pictures along with other effects. They could then share the work with family and friends. I can see some good opportunities for collaborating then publishing writing using e books. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">media type="custom" key="9380342" <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is a <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">voicethread <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> a group in my class did to explain the thinking behind some murals they had painted. The central idea for the Unit of Inquiry was 'Exploration and discovery have led to profound change'. Using voicethread allowed them to make individual comments on a group project.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here is a <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">timeline <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> done on on <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">timetoast <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. This was a great way to get students to research and then present something they were interested in. It helped them to think about chronology and also focus on how events had caused change. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> []