This week we moved into lockdown 3. We had a number of staff return to school and take care of the few students who went back. Although it was an anxious time, our SLT made sure that every health and safety measure were taken to ensure that all were safe when they went in. I continued to work from home and help take care of my grandkids.
After the long weekend we were right back into it. A focus for my year 9’s has been looking at how they can learn and understand the key competencies. In preparation for their learning, our A.K (Akomanga Kaihanga) team of dedicated staff have been working on ways to teach the K.C’s which could eventually be applied across curriculum areas. On Wednesday, we took our first combined lesson with Kirsty Dowding from the M.O.E.
The lesson:
We started by sharing a video called ‘Student Entrepreneurs are Empowered to Change their Community’. It was about a group of students involved in projects within their community. It went through the planning and processing stage all the way to presenting and evaluating. The next step was to ask the kids what capabilities they saw on the video. Their brainstorm started slow but picked up momentum when they heard each other sharing.
We then asked them they’d to think about and share capabilities they'd seen or used whilst in their project groups during term 1. I had created a snippet video to share with them to help them remember here. We then asked the students to define capabilities then share the kinds of capabilities they saw in the video. Kirsty described that groups of connected capabilities were called competencies. Students then attempted to put capabilities under the relevant competencies.
Reflection:
For the 15 students who attended, the lesson was a good way to introduce the language of the competencies through relating them to the skills and capabilities students had learnt. I enjoyed the way that Kirsty was able to scaffold the learning and allowed the kids the opportunity
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