Definitely not prep-planned, but I must say that I have been blest to have only 4 pupils for my 3NT D&T group. (Heard that there might be 2 more joining and I am gladly welcoming them; will like to pass on my skill and passion to more pupils, and also the 2 potential ones are challenging kids who I need to monitor too as a discipline master). Anyway, for the current 4 musketeers, they have been learning alot and so have I; been able to try out many new stuff in short span of 5 weeks.
This week, I tried out what my D&T co-ordinator has suggested:
starting with sketching Isometric grid lines. Then what I added on was- on the gridlines drawn, draw over with crates of different sizes. The self constructed grids has slowly conditioned the pupils to the 30 deg angles of the isometric lines, and then drawing over that with crates gives them an understanding of why those grids were for.
In the picture you can also see that we went through a round of peer grading: AAABA to feedback, and they want to do better than B all the time.
In the 2nd picture, we can see may Isometric Grid corners. To train the pupils also to be familiar with the grid corners grid's angles.
I was able to personally coach each of them and will be trying new methods especially AFL methods with this class.
It's great that a rubrics was used to feedback on each individual pupil's strength and weakness. It's wonderful that they are keen to keep scoring higher than before and this motivation is so important to excel in their work.
ReplyDeleteIt will also be useful to have comparison between pupils so that they can have a sense of how feedback is given to their fellow peers. It allows them to have a sense of the differentiation of grades and it is a good opportunity to learn from one another.