Visit by a researcher

This was a fun day at school when we had a researchers who cam from London. He wanted to see how do we intergrate the tablets with the curriculum. He also interviewed teachers to hear their stories. I was using the jigsaw strategy in Grade 9 English lesson term 1 , week 3-4 day 3. The lesson was on letter writting that Writting and Presentation. They used their tablets to check on how to write a letter, different types of letters, how to edit it.They worked as a team applaying the 21st Century Skills which are :collaboration, connectivity, critical thinking, communication.

They even gave reports on the tasks when we were doing consolidation.

The learner consolidating                           

Learners giving reports in their home groups

Learners doing consolidation

Learners busy in their task groups

 The visitor observing            

Learners answering questions

Educator handing out the tasks

Harmonious working environment

Character and personalty traits of individuals have a positive influence in a work place!!!

The winning team at the Train the trainer session

During our  Field trip preparation, which I facilitated, we had to go through the activity sheet to see if all the items in the scavenger hunt activity sheet work out well. All our activities have a gamification element to it, we had to do peer assessment among all the teams to establish a "winner". It turned out to be an extremely lively discussion with some heated arguments. Who said peer assessment has to be boring?

A tweet from the session which shows that we can use peer assessment to unpack concepts.

#ict4red #fieldtrip this is what assessment looks like!! Jaribaaaa pic.twitter.com/xTLRoow7nG
— Maggie Verster (@maggiev) February 7, 2015

This is the winning "rat" team celebrating their success!