Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Observation with Caroline Morritt (RTLit) Caroline observed me taking reading groups using the Little Learners Love Literacy decodable texts.  I used magnetic letters to go over letter sounds and blending CVC words (stage 1-2 books) and modelled onset/rime (sound chunks) (stage 5-6 books). Caroline suggested:  * Teach from the code (target letter sounds) rather than the book  * Slow down with the books - aim for one or two books per week e.g. day 1 pre-teach sounds, Day 2 & 3 spend half time on book and half on letter sounds, Day 4 re-read for phrasing and fluency * Spend 90% of the guided reading time on explicit teaching of the target letter sounds, blends etc * Explicitly teach...don't encourage the children to guess  e.g. a child reads map as mat....say "this letter (point to p) is p. Say that sound at the end ma_" (or map) The Simple View of Reading  Decoding x Language Comprehension (Vocabulary) = Reading (Gough and Tunmer in 1986)  Further inform...

Stages of Inquiry ( Spirals of Inquiry ) Scanning Focusing  Developing a Hunch New Learning-and Reflecting on our Action Checking Term 3, Week 1-3, 2020 Scanning & Focusing Our team is working together to establish an engaging and varied maths programme for our students, which combines the following elements: * Concept * Inquiry * Warm-up * Independent tasks (informed by Rob Proffitt-White - see slide 6 ) We reflected and discussed maths learning at length as a whole team and began our Team Inquiry . Within this, we have formed teaching partnerships with one other, so we can focus more closely on each individual student. Amber and Lisa began co-planning and teaching, and then shared their planning process with the team in Term 3, week 3. Katie, my teaching partner and I, have developed our own similar plan, using their basis. Term 3, Week 4-6, 2020 Developing a Hunch Katie and I are working together, and collaboratively planning maths for all our students. We decided to meet f...

I am working collaboratively with my team, to help emergent readers make progress. Key Strategies:   * A collaborative approach: two teachers co-teaching home groups * Decodable books to assist phonological awareness ( The Little Learners Love Literacy series ) * Ongoing monitoring, with running record assessments every 2-4 weeks for target students, and letter-sound and/or high frequency word tests for target readers * Parents supporting literacy time - we train these parents in running simple, targeted word games * Professional reading, see notes below * Observations of colleagues, see note below Data & Assessment  End of Term 2, 2020: 19/43 readers from two home groups, are at or above standard on our Reading Wedge Graph. 24/43 readers are below standard. Professional Reading  -  Marie Clay  Teach students to: Monitor: notice when reading isn't correct, and make an attempt to identify issue or correct it. Check: that reading looks right, so...

Presentation Link Teach Dispositions For Maths  * This includes teaching what the School Values look like in maths learning (we care, we get there together, we love challenge) * This includes teaching what the Key Competencies look like in maths learning * This includes that maths needs fast thinking (e.g. basic facts) but also a lot of slow thinking  (place value on this when discussing with students), like maths inquiry Represent maths concepts in familiar and unfamiliar ways e.g. using mixed fractions, using a wide vocabulary Inquiry Maths * provides multiple solutions and pathways * provide extension, i.e. an extra challenge, organising and setting out all the answers you can find, join two groups/students with different answers and ask them to talk, compare, contrast, justify etc * enable students to solve or attempt to solve independently (do this by pre-teaching some content, reduce the number of steps, change the way it is represented, simplify the numb...

An Resource Teacher: Literacy (literacy expert) has been working with many of our high needs literacy learners, and providing us with training on phonemic awareness and ability. Phonological awareness includes * Single letter-sound relationships * Being able to delete a sound (e.g. cat without c is at) * Being able to add a sound (e.g. sat with an l is slat) * Being able to substitute a sound (e.g. cat to sat) * Being able to blend sounds Reading involves:  * Good language (and story) comprehension * Good word recognition from Sir Jim Rose: The Simple View of Reading - see below Full graphic here -  The Simple View of Reading by Sir Jim Rose This relates to Luke & Freebody's (1999) text decoder and text user roles. This was a model I studied extensively during my teaching in Australia. Luke & Freebody (1999) also site text user (using structure, purpose to make meaning) and analyst (critical review), as important to the foundation text decode...

Rob shared the beginnings of a Computational Thinking Progression Framework on how we can track computational thinking in our students.  He also explained a num ber of simple ways we can help our students be confident with computational thinking, including:  Estimation: provide for LOTS of opportunities for this. Ask children to do this BEFORE they try to solve a problem. Year 0-2: provide 3 numbers for addition problems so you can identify what strategies they are using and scaffold their sharing of these.  Number talks: these are 5-10 minute problems which everyone attempts to solve . Sharing allows all students to compare, contrast and justify their answers, and learn more in the process.  When running a shared problem, walk and notice students' different answers. Once the solution time is up, say, "I saw lots of answers including 2, 5, 3 etc (relevant to the problem), did anyone get a different answer." This moves students away from their focus ...

This is just a small summary of some of the key things I have experienced and learnt while working remotely in terms of connecting with students, collaboration and ICT. 1. Connecting with Whānau Core Blog: Start with Relationships     Key principles in here, have informed my approach: Affirming wellbeing: by providing a diverse range of differentiated learning options each day, and including our values explicitly. Noticing what students loved and providing more of those themes / learning areas (individual and for the group)           Relationships at the Centre: being available to listen and offer empathy or tailored responses has been helpful, e.g. a more individualised learning approach for some children, calls or zooms with some children. O ur school had trusted us to listen and identify what might help certain families, and then provide this within protocols.             Empower and Affirm Ākonga: fo...