Westbrook+Solo

=SOLO @ Westrook= In January of this year, all staff attended a two day course on SOLO led by Pam Hook and Julie Mills. The directive given by Colin (our principal) was to go and ‘explore the possibilities of SOLO’ in class to see where we, as a school, wanted to go. The teachers used SOLO in their classes (to varying degrees) and came to the conclusion that this is a very powerful tool to extend and enhance the learning of our students. The students picked up the language of SOLO quickly and were soon using it themselves, eg. “If I add this in, it makes me relational doesn’t it Miss?” media type="custom" key="6178379"media type="custom" key="6178385"

This is a teaching example of a Rubric co-constructed by the Students made before the 1day Cluster Leaders course on the 11th May.

This is the example modified by the sudents the next day.



A group of four teachers from Westbrook, the two Co-Leaders of ICT and two others, attended another day on SOLO led by Julie Mills on 11 May. This day essentially ‘unpacked’ the next layer of SOLO, using the maps as a way of leading the students to the next level. We came away greatly inspired and hugely aware of the implications for, not only our students, but us as teachers, and the direction that SOLO takes us.