Session 14 - Belmont City College Year 9 HASS - Jodie Davidson & Fiona Ball

1. Split group into 3 (about 3 groups of 8)

2. Come up with a warm up idea for the creative habit you have been given - persistence, discipline, inquisitive

• No longer than 2 minutes to complete

• Simple

• Suitable for a group of 8 people

1. Swap with another group and trial this warm up

2. Does it work?

1. Pair with another group (groups of 3 pair with each other)

2. Practice your presentation to each other - everyone must have an equal speaking part

3. While each group is presenting, write down three pieces of constructive feedback on how to improve the presentation

4. Do this for each other

1. What can your group do to improve its presentation?

2. What would you need to do to make your warm up suitable for a larger group?

• Break into smaller groups?

• Do it as a whole group?

• Materials? 

• Space?

1. Next week, one group will be chosen at random to run their warm up to staff and students?

Successes

• Getting into three groups was done automatically in silence without asking

• Two of the groups managed to come up with really good ideas for warm ups and were able to share this with each other. 

• Working on their presentation in self selected groups. They were on task and offering constructive feedback

• When we explained what they were going to be doing next week, presenting to everyone, there wasn’t any resistance, not even when we mentioned they would be recorded. 

• Throwing in an extra activity to practice asking and answering open ended questions and move the groups around

• Linking HASS and English - oral presentations, persuasive text, questioning and answering

• Using palm cards to create dot points for their presentations

Challenges

• One group struggled with the concept of discipline, relating it to a combination of punishment and running laps. Maybe ‘perseverance’ would be a more suitable and understandable word to use. 

• One group still hadn’t completed their poster presentation

• The two groups of ‘more concern’ swapped with eachother

‘The first activity was instant team work and gelling (collaboration) between participants. One group found something familiar such as in the word game. Although not an original idea, they still matched the creative habit with an appropriate warm up’… Teacher

‘I’m looking forward to seeing the connections being made based on choices made, sometimes by the more confident class members’… Teacher

Their group conversations were focused on the task set rather than what was or might be happening outside of it.