After a successful coaching collaboration with the Grade 2 team at ISG Jubail, where the teachers completely redesigned the unit and pushed themselves to new limits, the teachers and I wrote up our experience for NESA Educators magazine to share our growth. This was a wonderful example of coaching - we collaborated and created an amazing integrated unit that we would never have been able to create alone. The students thoroughly enjoyed the unit and it became 'the' unit the new Grade 2 looked forward to.
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This year I have pushed myself to offer after-school activities (ASAs), both to give students extra opportunities to use technology and to try things out as I do not have my own class.
This second trimester I have used Apple's Everyone Can Code guide and started a coding club. The students tried the initial activity of being robots - I needed to give clearer instructions as they filmed themselves walking to a secret spot, oops! - and we have been working through different activities the past couple of weeks. As they are younger students we are starting with Scratch Jr. Next stop Tynker. Have you used Anyone Can Code? Do you have any tips to share? I'll add another post at the end of the ASA to reflect on how others could use these resources. |
AuthorEmma Ahmed is a learning coach and curriculum coordinator at International Schools. Archives
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