The Learning Intention for this learning unit was to develop students’ Key Competencies and effective communication skills through an integrated curriculum (reading, writing, oral language and social science) by preparing and conducting an interview.
Developing Interviewing skills_Elena_COA_Episode.mp4Google Meets Lessons
Interview - Mrs Cox and Alan_COA_Elena.mp4The Interview in Lockdown
Reflection:
During this integrated learning unit, my students had multiple opportunities to practise and develop their literacy knowledge and skills and key competencies. All of the students stayed engaged during our online lessons and kept working on their tasks independently to be able to participate in every subsequent lesson. The students worked together creating a common understanding of how and why we had to follow certain steps and rules when preparing and conducting the interview. This ‘behind the scenes’ work led to a successful and enjoyable interview for all the parties.
I shared my multimodal site and personal experience of teaching interviewing skills during distance learning with my school colleagues. One of the Year 5-6 teacher decided to give it a go too, and her feedback was very rewarding.
Learn:
Developing reading, writing, listening and speaking skills
Developing Key Competencies
Developing interviewing skills - processes and rules
Create:
interview questions by researching about our guests
prepared, conducted and recorded the interview
Shared: the recorded interview on the class blog
Elena Terekhina
Glen Taylor School
elena.terekhina@manaiakalani.org
Manaiakalani Education Trust
PO Box 18 061, Glen Innes
Auckland, New Zealand
