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Weekly Reflections

Weekly Reflections
Week 9

15th June - 19th June

 Goals for the coming week
  • Start midterm reports
  • Finalising OTJ's across all curriculum areas
  • Organise for parent interviews (Week 11)
  • Reflect on inquiry at present

Professional Development for week
  • Te Wananga o Aotearoa
  • iPad training
This week has been an extremely busy week. It has required me to assess all students in mathematics (Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication and Division, Measurement - time and temperature, ratio and proportions, and algebra  and where they might be currently sitting now according to the data given and own teacher judgement through group work, one-on-one, and as a whole class. At time this felt very overwhelming, however with the support of my mentor teacher, I was successfully able to make an overall judgement in each area of mathematics. This process has definitely made me think about how important it is to manage testing, and student engagement in their at the same time. 

The way behaviour management is dealt within my classroom is slowly improving, but as any child would, there will be days where more than one or two of your students are going to be unsettled due to a range of unforeseeable reasons. The importance of this matter is to still keep your boundaries firm and not shift them. 

This week we have started on measurement - Angles. I have seen high engagement by the vast majority of my classroom. This is encouraging them to create angles, name the different angles, and using a protractor to accurately measure these angles. 

After carrying out a post test last Thursday on Proportions and Ratios, I was disappointed by the outcome of some my students. This made me question what went wrong, what I should have done and what I might do next time. Through discussions with the AP, she explained that students give evidence through a variety of ways. For example, one-on-one, and group work, as not all students do well in tests due to issues such as anxiety. From this discussion she said how a lot of aspects within proportion and ratios had been taught. A suggestion given for next time was to really identify the area of greater need. 

Continuing Focus
  • Refer to inquiry regularly
  • Managing time 
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