This was very informative. I found my workshops around the adolescent brain very informative and helpful for how to look after our younger students as they head towards this time in their lives.
Meeting fellow colleagues and having small chats about how they do things in their class/school was also very helpful and interesting.
Over the past two terms we have had some amazing PD for in the classroom and our own well being.
It has been a great reminder on how to add Health & PE into other curriculum areas. I enjoyed adapting my Writing lesson to include shuttle runs and watching the students interact and relish in an active lesson and not just doing a worksheet.
DMIC Fractions/ Percentages Online Workshop
Today I tuned into a amazing workshop with teachers from all around NZ who use DMIC in their classrooms.
The aim of the workshop was to look in detail at the NZ Maths Achievement Objectives NA3-1 and NA3-5 and to break them down into workable Learning Outcomes for lessons. We then looked at a variety of word problems and decided what Learning Outcomes these problems could have associated with them. From there we had a word problem that we had to re-write.
All of this work was done in break out rooms (in Zoom) with 4 or 5 other teachers. It was an amazing experience for many reasons:
1. working and getting to know other teachers from around the country.
2. Practising and working through how you would plan from starting at the big picture right down to the classroom level. (this was an amazing insight and great practise)
3. Coming away with a varietty of word problems and Learning Outcomes that can be used in our planning and classrooms
Here is a link to the workshop document that we walked away with
Today we participated in a PD Staff Meeting around Assessment Capable Learners. We looked at
different strategies that we could implement into our classrooms and how we can activate children as
learning resources to eachother and their teachers.
From this workshop/PD as a teaching team we chose to implement 2 of the strategies
- Random Talk Partners during Concept
- Mid -Lesson Learning Stops during our Learning Circles for Writing
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