Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Te am/Individual Teaching As Inquiry Goal How can we effectively and purposefully use assessment to describe and improve student progress and achievement in Maths? Focusing Inquiry I will undertake ongoing assessments (‘I Can’ sheets and JAM) of students’ understanding/skills in maths. I will use these to understand student progress, gaps and plan accordingly. Key teaching strategies will include: DMIC Problem Solving (targeting maths learning needs) Explicit teaching (small group) Practise opportunities (games, activities etc) TEAM TAI My Planning and Notes Key Maths Talk Moves:  * Listening  * Giving wait time: allowing a partner to think about what you've said, after you've said it * Restating/ Repeating  * Revoicing: saying what a partner said, in a different way * Questioning * Apply reasoning / Justify * Add on: to what someone else has said or show another way of solving the problem Term 1 Reflecti...

Staff and student mental health and wellbeing has been a goal in the strategic plan for my current school (Beckenham).  I lead the Wellbeing Team again in 2017, and loved scaffolding our student wellbeing leaders.  My goal was to liaise with school leaders, and then lead a team (staff and students) to develop & promote the MH curriculum, at Beckenham, to help meet the increasingly diverse needs of students  (Strategic Plan 2017).  Over 2017, our Wellbeing team meet during lunchtimes and after school. Here are just some of our achievements:  outcomes included:  * Beckenham mental health & wellbeing overview revisited, developed and shared with staff. This is a living document we can add to in future.  * Daily wellbeing notices for all students, using values-linked youtube clips, or student created role plays and movies * Input from staff and community sort and a whole school Wellbeing definition was created   (based on...