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Weekly Reflections

Term 3 
Week 2

27th July - 31st July

Goals for the coming week
- Complete running records on well-below students. 
- Identifying students showing sound knowledge for maths and guided reading in modelling books. 

Professional Development
- Te Wananga o Aotearoa 
- iPAD training - Blogger set up   

Positive
The classes full programme has started this week, with reading, writing, maths, te reo, and topic. Students have engaged well in all areas of learning thus far. The teacher 4 teacher reading resource box has seen students quickly grasp the expectations required, they have all developed the ability to read independently to understand the text they are reading. For guided reading, I am using the arb's reading resources that encourages students to make inferences, think critically about the text, and vocabulary. 

Further Development 
Continuous revisiting of the Numeracy Project Booklet is important, to develop sound ideas of the key knowledge each student needs to support them at a particular stage in mathematics. Also, noting students in modelling as they share their ideas in both mathematics and reading. 

Professional Development
Monday 27th July, a teaching staff member guided the entire teaching through the steps required to create a personal, or classroom blog to track own teacher learning or that of the classroom. This tool, I believe is another essential form of communication between teacher, student, wider community and whanau members. 

Where to from here for me? 
- End of year to evaluate classroom website, if this has not been effective and informative as first thought, I will then create a classroom blog to entice parents to view the current work carried out by their child/moko/whanaunga/friend. However, it is vital that I continue to inform whanau, and extended whanau to refer to the classroom website to stay up to date with current events and learning. 

This image shows the great advantages
of having a blog and how these 3
ideas intertwine with one another

Steps to create a
blog

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