Deliberate Acts of Teaching

It's been great to get some clarity.  Deliberate acts of teaching (or D.A.T.S as they are sometimes called), are a party of teaching and learning that have long been a requirement, but actually narrowing these down to definable strategies we are able to discuss and inquire into has been refreshing, to say the least.

Looking into our Gisborne Intermediate School Curriculum, after we explored the components of Deliberate Acts of teaching during a Team Meeting, I decided to try to make them really explicit in my planning for my Target Writing Group students.  I began with a document I could use when planning for the kids and decided it would be great to be able to add these documents to the target group modeling books / learning scrapbooks and make notes about evidence throughout my inquiry into the impact it could have.

Find this document here

Following this, I was interested in learning more about the strategies and located a copy of Clarity in the Classroom, which our DP kindly leant to me.

I copied the section on the DAT strategies and decided to add notes to enhance my understanding of them.  What I was really looking for were examples and language that I could employ with our kids.

In the process, our DP also mentioned that most of the information around DAT's had come from Effective Literacy Practice, which I already have and know well.  Not well enough, apparently, as this great text is full of information around DAT's, which is part of what I'll unpack next.

I enjoy the learning.
Now to put it into Action.