Criteria 5 Reflective Question:
How do I help support my colleagues to strengthen teaching and learning in my setting? Being a part of our collaborative, 'Innovative Learning Environment' I am working closely with up to 5 other educators at a time (golly, sometimes more than that!). We are constantly working collaboratively to support and strengthen teaching and learning across the curriculum in our space. It's what we do at Russell Street School, we are all about the Tātau tātau - we are extremely good at this. But what do I explicitly do? I ask, or question. I observe, I listen. I lead, I follow. I listen. I invite my colleagues out for breakfast, for beers. I support. I act. I listen. It is exciting to have the challenge of re-writing the school charter for the next 3-5 years. Within it, is all the innovative Learner Agency stuff I have been immersing myself in during the last 3 years. I have a feeling that my vision for learning is about to get critiqued and scrutinized as I make sense of it, as we make sense of it, as I make sense of us making sense of it. Criteria 12 Reflective Question: How do I advance the learning of my ākonga through critical inquiry within my professional learning? Outline progress in your inquiry to date. What has been your impact? What has been required to accelerate the learning of priority learners? What further learning is required (for you)? I've said it before but I'll say it again: building positive relationships is the absolute key to a successful career in teaching. Without the ability to form and sustain positive relationships with students, classes, colleagues and whānau everything would fall over. With this being said, this is one of the hardest things to do. 3 of my 4 target kids are new to me and my class and teaching in an innovative learning environment has meant that our relationships my not have had as much time to develop as they would have being in a single cell class. But! We are half way through through the year and we have all earned each others' mutual respect. So, these things have worked:
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cm2 paper Check for understanding about the maths first. The letter O has an area of 6 squares. Talk to your partner about where are they? Where are the 6 squares? Can someone point out what this is on the paper. Area: what do we know about area? - plans of a house - layout -Manawatü is an area - space in the floor - the "footprint" of a shape Make sure the conversation in the task is about the maths and not the task. If you have a question, ask.
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