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 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