1907 - High School Teacher Workflow

Start of school year

• Nothing she has to do unless she wants to change an achievement task
• Most of the time I get told what to do
• I receive unit outlines
• TBD - breakdown of schedules and learning outcomes
• Specific activities or activities I have to do
• List of standards I have to run my class by and they have to be completed and marked by X date
• Doesn't plan anything until she meets her kids
• Meets kids first day of school
• Start with exam - evaluate capability
• Refer back to last years stuff to inform this exam
• Visible planning doc
• Covers specific learning outcomes, learning activities, questions, practice questions
• Do the plan
• If cool activities are included, she either makes them or finds them provided they match learning outcomes
• Adjust timelines based on how quickly the class learns

• Process for bringing in an expert?
• Find friend / scour network 2 weeks before event
• Ask them to come in
• They come in
• They talk about stuff for an hour
• They leave

• Unit standard vs achievement standard
• Can only pass or fail unit standard (achieved / not achieved) - faster - usually for kids who don't pass achievement standards

• Achievement standard have merit or excellence
• For achieved you just have to describe/state/name
• For merit or excellence you need to explain, analyze, discuss, justify - show thinking

Prep for internals vs prep for externals

• Internals
• 2-3 weeks of teaching - expert / activities would come in here
• 1-2 weeks of practice / full practice with loads of feedback
• 1-2 weeks for the internal where she is just supervising
• Externals
• 5-8 weeks of learning -
• Learn, practice, question
• Mock exam
• Then the real one

• Keywords
• Interactive, simulation, animation, for kids
• easy

• If I wanted to change something -
• Read title of achievement standard, and what each grade requires
• Refer to NZQA clarification - this provides more guidance about what you can and cant do while teaching this standard - also tells you how much help you are allowed to give
• Refer to exemplar tasks and they should get a judgement schedule and a marking schedule
• Judgement schedules provide examples for X grade ie: excellence is justifying your opinion and this is what this looks like
• Marking schedule
• Sometimes included in exemplars
• Quite literally how to grade
• Examplars of standards, answers etc