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How teacher prepares for new year | Content split by odd-even years Plans for math literacy science No plans for digital technologies Digital tech slideshow - links to code.org course, common sense media
Preparing content for a maths class Follow the book through for maths as the plan iUgo - online planning platform Enter in things like key competencies What is a target student? Students who are a priority to focus on - at risk students(ethnicity, socioeconomic level, learning disabilities, struggling) - priority students in education-speak
Groups - can segment students by skill Sequential plan or unit plan
About to change to something else for planning
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Requirements before school year starts | Regular meetings about what you're planning to do Running records with them - competency checking - ask them questions - identify comprehension and fluency with language - numeracy Getting to know them in the first month
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What does a plan look like? | Could be a word document Unit title, theme Values for the term Key competencies Achievement objectives Success criteria Resources needed - this will be threaded throughout the plan Week 1 coverage, week 2 coverage, etc etc etc WALT - we are learning to Tumble - different groups
Old school manager, but happy with whatever, Hand it in on a shared school drive iUgo Differentiation between different students
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Process for bringing in an assembly speaker? | Tell team lead Book assembly Tell students Do the thing
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Last time you brought in a speaker | Policeman Someone to talk about road safety Travelwise How to hop on a bus? Not a full school assembly Usually included as part of a normal assembly Usually as a slot in the assembly Monday morning assembly Last thing Friday afternoon
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Pain points | Knowing that you're doing a good job with work life balance Expectation setting The amount of Professional Development clahses with work requirements Meeting with students parents because their child is misbehaving Helping a different teacher with tech Lots of small things that get in the way of BAU (marking, etc) Dropped marking Nobody does the marking for weeks Stuff is unmarked A lot of it is peer marked / self marked
I always work through lunch I only break during shared morning tea on Wednesday mornings A lot of random shit that wont get done unless I do it
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What support do I get when teaching something new? | Now teaching art and Maori Taking on a few more subjects Results in more planning More things to write in reports Working with year 7s and 8s Meet team lead every week At year 7/8 it’s a lot about peer approval
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Day in the life | Arrive 7:30am Make sure class is ready - printing, emailing, finding resources Review timetable Tidying, cleaning classroom Borrowing resources from other teachers occasionally Morning admin 8:15-8:30 staff meeting Other stuff and notices 8:30 head back to classroom Asking how they are if they were absent Reminding them to do shit, collecting money if needed for projects Take roll 8:40-9:10 Devotions First lesson varies Writing or reading Friday is homework marking 10:00 10:50 - Second period is always maths Morning tea - first break of the day Laminating things, eat/drink More admin, emailing parents
11:15 - student return Begin subjects - double period of something Planning is difficult at this end Keeping them entertained or engaged for this long is difficult Lunchtime 12:50 - 1:40 Duty 2-3 times a week until 1:15 Last period of the day 1:40 - 3:10 Usually finish up by 3 to have enough time to remind them what to bring the next day Tidy up resources, admin etc After school duty 3:00 - 3:30 traffic duty If professional development is planned its from 3:30 - late Sometimes til 6
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Professional development | ZOOMed in Digital technology pd Super basic, really painful High school teachers were made to be there but it sucked Farm animals coding scratch Told to go home and try it herself - Frustratingly basic - didn’t find it useful
Boring Not at her level - too simple Half an hour session, but the fact that it was paid for and mandatory The teachers didn’t ask for it
Everyone was just working on their laptops on other work, mentally absent Would be more helpful if someone in the school was given release / relief to do professional development with someone better then to teach it to the rest of the school
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Tell me about the reporting | Term 2 and term 4 need to have finished reports Only report every half term Half to throughout the year Different assessments Chanel spelling tests PISA - no PISA testing
Success criteria - student should present a well informed speech in marine conservation Metrics quite flexible at intermediate Assessments may be standardized across classes by year level KMAR for reporting Report role Incidents Access student information, ie: address, contact details, parent contact info Maths, english, social science, science, reading, writing Digital tech, religious students, typing arent logged in the system
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Misc | Sharing content Teachers plan together She will make things, some games, etc Once the topic is finished it goes into a box
Booking out the hall Weekly library Library PE Swimming pool Carparks
Current process is to fill in a piece of paper in staff room to book venues |
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ITF activity creation | |