Maths Goals

In the next two weeks my students will show evidence that they have achieved their learning goals in reading, writing and maths.

Having reviewed measurement assessments from last term, a number of children have gaps in this area. I have shared a doc with them into their learning pathways folders on their google drives, informing individuals who need to set measurement or areas within it as their next learning goal in maths.

To help them achieve their goal we will do some class workshops and I will make sure to set measurement learning tasks on mathletics for them to complete in their own time.

Here is a link to the doc I shared with them: Your next learning goal - measurement

Maths Word Problems

Today I posted Maths Word Problem links onto Room 5 BLOG. This was an independent task for one of the maths groups today. It was valuable to apply their mult/div knowledge to real contexts. Also I feel this is something I need to teach better (word problems). So providing practice time is a start towards using word problem-solving more in my maths programme.

Here are the links I used.

Grand Slam Maths

Word Problems with Katie

Maths PD Thursday 12 May 2016 Randwick Park School

Franklin Cultural Festival 2016 I went along to assist and support. I added this slideshow to the school website.

Parent emails (Engaging whanau with children's learning digitally)

Here is the doc I shared with teachers to encourage them to gather all parent emails at conferences next week.

Kia ora

Here attached are the email address of parents from your class, as accessible under “pupil lists” in e-tap.

If you want to access more of them to add, please use etap

and go to your learner hub, then quick lists and then

contact details

Can you please use this printed list at your parent interviews next week to get parents to quickly add their current email address to the list?

That way you can share google docs with them when their children do well and you can email them yourself of course when you need to. You can also create a parent contact group in your gmail contacts.

Please let me know if you are unsure about any of this. I’m happy to help.

Many thanks

Mairead

Assessment for Learning - Writing

This week, having reviewed e-asttle writing tests, it's clear that the target students in Room 5 all have presented with a need around editing punctuation. I have therefore done some professional reading using The Writing Book by Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey.

Here are the strategies for self-editing which I am going to implement between now and the end of term. 

1) The first is page 173 - "Read your writing in a quiet voice. When you pause, tap the table. Ask yourself if you have finished the idea. If you have, check that you have included a full stop. If you have not finished, check that you have included a comma and then finished the idea"

2) The second strategy is for my feedback and it's on page 202. The book explains that in order to publish writing, the teacher will have to do the final edit and students are to proof-read and edit at their own manageable level, which I can direct them to do. Here are the codes I can use when giving feedback comments on google docs, highlighting the specific line..

Parent Emails

At today's staff meeting I showed the staff how to locate parent email lists on e-tap. One of our e-Learning strategic goals is to engage parents with their own learning through digital tools.

So I anticipate that once teacher's have accessed parent emails on e-tap, they can ask the remaining parents for theirs at parent-teacher conferences on 12 and 13 April.

Then teachers will be in a position to create a gmail contact group of parents for class notices, to email parents easily to celebrate learning or discuss learning and also to share any google docs or slides created by students with that student's parents.

Hopefully parents will begin to comment on their child's learning using google drive or blogger.