New video blog for Accelerated Reader

By admin31st October 2016

Accelerated Reader have been back in touch!

Many of you will have seen Miss Sheridan’s video blog back in July. She talked about the ways in which we have used Accelerated Reader at Brooklands Farm. This time, they came back to find out how we use theory and evidence-based research to ensure we provide the very best education for all children. They loved the way we use assessments to help children understand the progress they have made and how we create dialogue with children,providing them with opportunities to set their own next steps and goals. Click here to find out more:

http://www.renlearn.co.uk/renaissance-blog/control-the-assessment-process/

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To read Miss Sheridan’s blog, click here:

Miss Sheridan’s AR blog.

Miss Sheridan stars in a video blog for Accelerated Reader!

By admin20th July 2016

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Accelerated Reader is a tool that we invested in back in September. It assesses children’s reading skills and signposts them to read appropriately challenging books – difficult enough to keep them engaged but not so difficult that they become frustrated. We call this their ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ (ZPD). The concept of the ZPD was originally developed by Vygotsky who believed that the role of education is to give children experiences that are within their zones of proximal development, thereby encouraging and advancing their individual learning. At Brooklands Farm, a lot of our teaching practice is underpinned by Vygotsky’s theories so we were delighted when we discovered Accelerated Reader! View Miss Sheridan’s blog to find out more:

 

Click here to view Miss Sheridan’s video blog!