Weekly Reflection T2 Wk 5

Weekly Reflection 
Term 2
Week 5

Goals for coming week

• Ensure PRT blog is up to date. 
• Organise reading exercise for students assessed as stanine four (Work on inferencing).
• Organise maths for whole class, using PAT data. 
• Make comments on where students are at (maths, reading, writing). 

Professional Development Attended:

• Te Wananga o Aotearoa (Te Ara Reo Lvl 2)
• iPad Training (Manukorihi Int)
• Algebra Maths Workshop (Te Toi Tupu) 

This week was the first week using the PAT comprehension data. Through this data, I identified students who were assessed as being at stanine 4. After identifying these students, I then identified appropriate an appropriate activity, which would challenge them to think critically about a type of text. I first started off by observing my mentor teacher who is also carrying this out. This gave me an insight as to how I can run this learning programme with my 5 children. 

Using the PAT data for mathematics is working really well. Students are mixed in ability when they are paired (i.e. higher level thinkers, with lower level thinkers in terms of mathematics). 

The first of three mathematic algebra workshops were held on Thursday. This was a first workshop. As a whole, we identified what the learner should be learning in regards to year level, and what those activities might look like.