Learner: Brooklyn, Markus and Alex Date: July 2015
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Learning Area: Science Learning Coach: DWilkes
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Learning Observed
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The learners are beginning learning in the area of animal habitats, adaptations and survival needs in preparation for our trip to the zoo. During the session the learners began to build their scientific language and develop their ability to communicate in science. In matching the animals to different continents Markus & Alex began to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat, Brooklyn really enjoyed this activity. They can recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive. While learning the continent song, they actively participated and could sign and say the names of all of the continents. They could also identify them on a world map. Brooklyn, Alex and Markus can define what the word habitat means and they can state which continent certain animals are found eg. panda in Asia, giraffe in Africa
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Evidence of learning
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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The three of them were enthusiastically engaged in all aspects of the lesson participating and contributing while demonstrating strong collaboration with each other. They asked each other for help and didn’t hesitate to check for understanding with other learners or the learning coaches. During the matching activity I observed some good questioning and problem solving strategies. While some of the animals were matched incorrectly to the continents, they persevered to get it correct showing a strong desire to develop their capability in this area. They are able to make connections between what a habitat is to an animal and what a habitat is to humans drawing on new learning and prior knowledge.
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Next Learning Steps
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Learner: Alex Usudan Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick Date: 23.07.2015
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Learning Area: Collaboration Narrative Story
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Learning Observed
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Alex was a member of a group of 4 learners who were engaged in an activity where they had to reach consensus about placing statements about “promises” into categories under the title of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. An example of some of the promise statements were “ I promise to clean my teeth every night” or “I promise I will grow taller than my dad” or “I promise I will try had to learn” and “ I promise to keep any promise”. This was a challenging activity as in the first round the learners were not allowed to sign/talk but shuffle the statements into the categories until they were all happy with the outcome. The second round the learners were able to sign/talk and had to justify why they moved and why they thought statements belonged or didn’t belong in the specified category selected. Alex was supported by Tracy Karanui a Speech Language Therapist during the activity. Alex was able to learn the signs for the 4 different categories but needed support to understand the statements. Tracy used a mini whiteboard to write keywords from each statement to enable Alex to understand and follow what was happening. Alex was able to contribute to placing the statements in the categories but was not able to explain the reason why. She was able to listen/attend to their explanations and was accepting of people’s different opinions.
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Evidence of learning
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Alex is displaying an increasing level of participation and was relating well to the other learners. She was contributing her ideas with 1:1 support from the SLT. She was making connections with the other learners and showing respect for their different opinions.
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