Technology Teaching Tidbits

Recently I had a comment from a colleague from University that has made me stop and think. For the past three terms I have been working in a team of four teaching a fluctuating 90-110 children. I mentioned that I was making the Christmas gifts for all of the children in the studio and her response startled me. Her first response was "Why? Shouldn't you be each doing them for you own kids?" Recently as a team we have been talking about how we teach and work together and what we can change around this. We have spent this year setting up routines, adjusting to the environment (it's a new school this year) and finding our feet. Somewhere along the way we fell back into the routine of key groups are priority which is something we want to change but in some aspects this is already in effect. It's funny that when I first applied for my position I was nervous of the space and how it functions as I have never been in an environment such as this yet quickly I saw the bene...