All too often, I bemoan the fact that I don't have time to get into the classrooms and see what is actually going on. But I read an article recently that said that if something is really important to you then you make time for it. This pulled me up short, as what the children are learning is really important to me. So why wasn't I going into classrooms looking for that? I keep telling myself that I will as soon as I get the next section of the accreditation report written; or when I've had a chance to analyse the latest set of assessment data; or when I've written the next module unit; or when I've redesigned the timetables to give us more time to focus on reading, which we've identified as a priority; or when I've finished preparing the next training morning for the teachers of the TAs etc. But today, as I finished a half hour mentoring meeting with one of our TAs, instead of sitting back down to prepare the month's learning summaries that we sent out to our parents in an attempt to keep them informed/ get them more involved, I walked out of the office and into the classrooms.
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January 2014
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