Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

Rapid Routines are important for developing mathematical thinking  The aim of rapid routines are to target universal misunderstandings- unlikely to change thinking in a few minutes, but good to use to get a grasps of thinking and knowledge.  Promote mathematical thinking – discuss, defend, debate Diagnose where learners’ understanding is – planning tool Instil high expectations – reason not result Assigns competence – reshuffles status quo of learners Accountability - corners denote “I think….because….”; centre denotes “I am not sure yet” Examples are included on this Power Point (staff meeting 22.03.22)

  Outline  Kinetic Letters is a Handwriting programme that teaches formation, and also develops children's gross and fine motor skills. The combination of these aspects = automatic, efficient and neat handwriting. There are a series of Strands which make up the online professional development I have undertaken, as well as an excellent Teacher Resource Guide (see below for photos). This is a record of my learning.  The Strands Red Strand: Making Bodies Stronger    It is important to help children build the following strengths:  1. Pelvic girdle, by using animal positions (e.g. lion, lizard, meercat) & sitting crossed legged, hands on knees 2. Shoulder girdle, using floor push ups, plank, hanging on monkey bars, crawling 3. Forearm and wrist strength e.g. by using alternate sides of hand, such as flipping a coin from one sideto other; cutting, vertical writing (e.g. on paper posted on the wall) 4. Hand and finger strength through finger rhymes and squeezi...

Planning (Digital copy of presentation saved in personal filing) Helping our students learn and succeed in maths requires careful planning.  The termly and weekly plan should include these  proficiencies :  Procedural fluency  Adaptive reasoning Problem solving Conceptual understanding Productive disposition Children need time and practise in each of these competencies, across each dimension of maths :  Number & algebra  Geometry & measurement Statistics (image courtesy of Rob Profitt-White) Example: (image courtesy of Rob Profitt-White) Use the NZMaths Curriculum Elaborations to guide planning. NZ Maths Long Term Plans  -  use the thematic plans to cover each area of maths over the year. Weekly Strategies To Engage (group or individual) Move It, Prove It - start of week (diagnostic observations) and repeat end of week (summative show of learning, and spent more time reasoning and justifying so all understand the concept) Have students mak...

Two teachers from Kaiapoi North shared their experience of Structured Literacy practise Presentation from Mel & Felicity, teachers at Kaiapoi North School. This presentation includes recommended further reading and resources . Group Teaching Maximise learning and provide students as much practise as we can.  Sound pack - focus on pure sounds   (add in new sounds a students are ready for them). Revisit several times a day - start of day, in literacy, end of day, after breaks Heggarty or similar phonological awareness In small groups, decode and encode (read and write) the sound or rule (e.g. floss rule words or CVC words with middle a, middle i etc) Move groups through word level, sentence level practise. Sometimes decodable text, other times dictation Heart words Senior sound pack: also have to understand and say the meaning of the word part Junior Section What Kaiapoi North do in Year 1 and 2... Keep: Yr1-2 poetry, independent literacy activities, modelled writing, d...

This year, I have a leadership unit to oversee and support our approach around ESOL teaching and learning, and to raise cultural awareness at our school.  I am co-ordinating a team of staff representing each year level, and together, we are working on strategies to improve cultural awareness and empathy amongst staff and the wider community.  At our first team meeting, I shared some of the factors migrant families face, having learnt about this from my study (2019-2020) through Massey University.  These factors may include:  Cultural and family dislocation, and possibly also a sense of loneliness/cultural isolation  Finding employment at a similar level to what they had in their homeland  Many migrants report an initial joy and excitement about their new homeland, but after weeks/months, many report a sense of disappointment or isolation Migrant children may be reluctant to speak their mother tongue, yet research shows that maintaining the first language ac...

Full presentation by Caroline Morrit Background Reading and writing are reciprocal processes.  Reading and the spelling part of writing rely on phonological awareness.  Spelling involves encoding sounds and reading involves decoding sounds.  A cohesive approach best supports students' overall literacy development...or students are best supported to learn if spelling is taught explicitly.   Key Terms Phonology (spoken) - The organisation of speech sounds into words. Orthology (written) - The written spelling system of language. Morphology - The structure of words and parts of words - affixes and bases. Phonological awareness - An awareness of the sound structure of spoken words.  It includes words in sentences, syllables, rhyme, alliteration and phonemic awareness. Phonemic Awareness - The ability to isolate, identify, blend, segment and manipulate individual phonemes in words. Phoneme - A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech in a word.  The word...

Readings:  Margrain, V., Murphy, C., and Dean, J. (2015)  Giftedness in the Early Years: Informing Learning & Teaching. NZ: NZCER Press Cathcart, Rosemary (2020) They're Not Bringing My Brain Out : Understanding and Working with Gifted Learners. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. 4th Edition. Note: The author of this book is the founder of NZ's National Gifted Education Centre and One Day School. Key Learnings:  * Gifted students need opportunities to work with "like minds" who can think, talk, co-create, play, pretend, read or work at a similar level to themselves. They may often prefer working with adults than children  because of this need.  * Giftedness may encompass a striking ability in these 3 areas: above average ability (e.g. in maths, thinking, language use) + highly focused task commitment + creativity (Renzulli & Reis, 1986 in Margrain, Murphy & Dean (2015, p.6) * Giftedness can be understood as possessing both extreme intensity / focus on specific...