This has been updated each term this year. See attached.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
Deliberate Acts of Teaching from Staff Meeting today
Today at staff meeting, Linda (as CoL leader) asked us to reflect on Deliberate acts of teacher. See Slides..
TAKE AWAYS
The importance of open-ended questions that encourage critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.
To actively listen to students' responses and ask probing questions to deepen understanding and spark further discussions.
Significance of creating a safe and inclusive classroom environment where all students feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and ideas.
Adapting questioning techniques based on a student’s age, ability, and cultural background is essential.
Participating in ongoing professional development by providing additional resources, such as books, websites, or online courses, to further enhance questioning skills beyond the activity.
Monday, April 24, 2023
Teacher Only PLD - Pukekohe Raceway
The highlight for me today was the Wellbeing and Resilience talk. As per slides attached.. fulfillment, sleep mastery and thinking were very interesting. Notably, purpose is more important than fullfilment and thinking leads to anxiety, so one is better to stop thinking and instead to focus on tasks!
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Monday, July 4, 2022
Learning Progression Framework TEAM MEETING with Jacque Allen
We looked at the learning progression framework today with Jacque. It will be really helpful for illustrations and teacher prompts. We think it needs clearer curriculum levels.
Monday, May 30, 2022
DMIC PLD at Today's Staff Meeting
Arahina - facilitator acknowledged our karakia.
Arahina asked us about connecting with children’s thinking. Children of all ages and levels are able to think and reason informally about mathematical ideas.
Making Mathematical Practices Explicit.pdf
Are you pushing the mathematical practices? What tools will you use to really understand what students are doing?
Look for misconceptions.
Complex listening
Evaluative: Listen for something
Interpretive: understand another’s thinking
Hermeneutic: interpretive or explanatory
How can children’s talk support learning? Helps clarify and organise their thoughts, facilitates personal and collective sense making, supports building connections between representations and multiple strategies..
Productive talk tools - revoicing by teacher and students, teacher asking student to repeat another student’s response, turn and talk, wait time, teacher request students to add on, teacher elicits a student’s reasoning (do you agree/disagree? Why do you think that?)
Empower students by highlighting a strength before directing them to where to next.
Value Mistakes!, value persistence and perseverance.
Reflecting: Talk moves - develop communication and promote active participation, help teacher gauge understanding, helps to reinforce and clarify new concepts.
We need to regularly use mistakes as learning tools, so students know that we appreciate mistakes!
Take
Pepeha: Arahi
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