My First Visitors

The other day a group of children in Grade 1 and 2 approached me in the hallway and told me they had visited my blog. I'm pretty confident that my face went red from embarrassment because their classroom blog and computer skills are much better than mine. The children were quick to let me know that I shouldn't be frightened of blogging, and that if I needed help, I could come to their classroom and they would assist me. Also, one of my tender-hearted Grade 1 students shared,Rylee said, "Mrs. Caldwell, blogging is just sharing your ideas with friends, and we're your friends." Needless to say, I will be enlisting the support of the Grade 1/2 classroom on a regular basis.

Grade 3 Provincial Assessment

I attended a professional development session on the Grade 3 Provincial Assessment. The workshop provided our school team of Grade 3 teachers with new information and understandings as to the importance of this assessment practice. Our team concluded that the Grade 3 Provincial Assessment is a guide for instructional planning, identifies strengths/needs, classroom based assessment, a communication tool, evidence is triangulated, purposeful and gives time to plan/teach, assessment of beginning of Gr. 3 outcomes, snapshot at the end of October, and is not a standards test, a time to teach to the test, something to use at the start of the year and then forget about it.

Beginning

I am not sure what I am totally doing creating a blog, but my technology savvy daughter and good friend are encouraging me to be less of blog lurker and start contributing my own learning and experiences to the blogging community. In school I foster the importance of making our learning public so that we may all learn from each other, now it is my turn.

I am not sure yet what I'll be posting on my blog, it could be my reflections, something that's happened at school or something that I've learned from someone else.

This is very nerve racking, but at the same time I'm excited about this new adventure because it is a good opportunity to walk in the shoes of the learners at my school everyday. So here goes nothing!