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Junior Cycle Skills Reflection, Evaluation and Planning Journal
Publisher
4Schools
Are you looking for a structured approach to embedding the Key Skills at Junior Cycle?
The Junior Cycle Skills Reflection, Evaluation and Planning Journal is specifically designed to support the embedding of Key Skills during the Junior Cycle.
The author, Elizabeth Tierney, having 17 years’ experience teaching form classes, felt that her form students would benefit from having a structured routine during form class time. Elizabeth believed that better use could be made of tutor time and so she set about writing a journal that she could use to support her students in understanding the Key Skills.
The aim of the journal is to provide structured learning during tutor time through bite-sized activities that maintain constant focus on the Key Skills and develop clarity around the Junior Cycle Statements of Learning. The programme consists of a 50-page interactive reflective journal, a detailed teacher manual and a full Appendix I.
€4.00
Why is the Junior Cycle Skills Reflection, Evaluation and Planning Journal beneficial to your school?
- The programme introduces and reinforces the eight Key Skills of the Junior Cycle and develops clarity around the Junior Cycle Statements of Learning for students.
- It is ideal for first years and can be used throughout the Junior Cycle.
- The journal assists student reflection, evaluation and planning.
- The programme consists of active methodologies and differentiated activities, allowing teachers to hear the voices and opinions of all their form students.
- The journal follows a pattern whereby students share previous knowledge about key skills, engaging with other students and their form teacher, and take part in reflection, evaluation and planning activities to further increase their understanding of these skills.
- Exercises are broken down into bite-sized activities that take less than 10 minutes to complete.
- The programme provides a space to create awareness of important issues for students and helps to build and develop a positive, cohesive and friendly class ethos.
- Establishes routines for form classes and helps to manage administration.
- Informs students of the six Indicators of Wellbeing and allows students to practise wellbeing techniques through efficient planning.
- Creates connections between home and school.
About the Author
The programme was designed and written by Elizabeth Tierney, a secondary school chaplain at Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun. Having originally trained as a teacher of Religion and English, she also completed training as a counsellor, psychotherapist and then as chaplain. Elizabeth’s learning and understanding of young people is evident in every page of this journal.
Elizabeth believes that a structured approach with practical and useful exercises can ensure that form class is an enjoyable and useful experience for students. It helps form teachers to create and maintain professional relationships with their classes, while introducing the concepts of the Junior Cycle to them in a dynamic way, to encourage lifelong learning and the development of life skills.
Central to her career in education is the formation of relationships with her students and, having implemented her own programme in school, Elizabeth felt that all schools could benefit from this journal.
Recommended guide for using the programme in your school
- It is suggested that teachers aim to complete three activities each week from the journal with their form class.
- Activities take less than 10 minutes to complete. If your class is an hour long, activities can be combined to create one lesson.
- As it stands, the programme takes into account one day needed for the whole-year assembly, which replaces one form session weekly, and one day for school activities, administration or some such event/activity that will need another form session.
- The programme can be used as part of the wellbeing hours for Junior Cycle and the journal can be kept as a record of learning for Junior Cycle students.
