Training guide
2. Developing participatory TGMs
2.2. Reflecting and learning in TGMs
During this term, it is important that the TGMs focus on building the strong professional relationships created last year and developing your skills in planning and delivering lessons that combine different teaching approaches. This will mean that as you progress, your lessons will naturally contain a mix of learner-centred activities, supported by active monitoring and on-going formative assessment.
A participatory TGM involves teachers working actively towards a particular objective: to learn something that will be useful for everyone. Taking part in discussion and in collaborative activities enables you to explore a specific topic at the same time as allowing you to reflect on issues and on your own experiences. In all TGMs everyone needs to contribute and share experiences.
After each TGM take some time to reflect on the meeting to ensure the discussions, shared experiences and learning in them is most useful to you.
Activity 4.5: Reflecting and learning from TGMsYou may find it helpful to write your reflections on each TGM. This will help you see how the work you do in these meetings with other teachers can benefit you and your learners. In your Teacher Notebook write a paragraph on each TGM. You can include a description of the activity/activities you carried out, the resources you used, the usefulness of the activity and finally how you could use it as part of your classroom practice. This record will help you transfer the learning from the TGM into your teaching. Finally, think about your own contribution to the TGMs you have attended recently and write down two or three targets for this term. You might want to volunteer to be a facilitator, or you might resolve to try and contribute more, or to listen more if you are in the habit of talking a lot! |