1907 - Teacher Workflow

Owned by Walter Lim
Last updated: 22-10-2019
2 min read



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 when searching for resources online

    • 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