Welcome to my Professional Learning Blog! This year, I am teaching in a 1:1 Chromebook classroom with Year 3/4 students at Pt England School in Auckland, New Zealand.
Monday 1 July 2024
Term 2 Inquiry Update
Friday 31 May 2024
Making Music with Suno AI
As part of the Maniakalani Cluster Create PD, I attended a workshop led by Fiona Grant (Manaiakalani Facilitator) about using the AI program Suno. We had fun exploring what key words to add into the program to have a song created by the AI. I then, took my song and embedded it into Adobe Express Animator to have an avatar sing my created song. Here is my final project.
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Summarising the Challenge
Summarise the challenge of student learning you plan to focus on in this inquiry.
Focus Question: How can I effectively build self-efficacy in my maths students to enable them to clearly share how they got their answer?
The past few years, I have put my teaching inquiry focus into reading and through my inquiry (combined last year with the Manaiakalani RPI programme) I have really found some things that work best when promoting students to feel that they are "allowed to be aloud" when sharing their thinking with others.
I'm hoping to be able to bridge that same principle into my maths class especially when working with my students who are just below year level. This year, I have a lovely group of six students working at Year 3 during term 1 and the beginning of term 2.
The graph below shows their Mathematics PAT score from Term 1 of this year. The red line, shows the average score for a Year 4 student on this standardised test.
Thursday 1 February 2024
PES PD: Maths With Fiona Fox
Today, the teachers at Pt England were once again able to spend some time working with Fiona Fox (Manaiakalani Maths Facilitator). We had a lovely time looking at the importance of subtising, promoting fluency and sequencing/developing mathematical strategies. Fiona brought along a wide variety of maths games that we explored in our year level teams. It was a great opportunity to look at resources that are available to us to implement into our weekly classroom plans.
Subitising
-Using Number talks (show for 3-5 seconds)
Fluency
-Being able to provide mathematical answers instantaneously without having to think about it.
Sequencing and Developing Strategies
-Foundational Facts
-5 Frames
-Doubling
-SKip Counting
-10 Frames
-Arrays for mult/div
-Mulitpication Loopy