Mia's Teaching Journey

Developing Mathematical Inquiry in a Learning Community Professional Development Day 2 If anything, this programme is about teaching resilience. Never be afraid to make the problems really hard. I’ve been in classes where children do not know the answer but they learning that occurred in finding that answer was HUGE. Record what has worked well for you and why - it has been cool to see kids who are not confident in maths, or struggle giving it more of a go, and to see kids being challenged and feeling like they are all equal to each other, e.g. mixed ability groups. Record what you have noticed about how your students feel and act about this way of learning maths - I think at the beginning they were a bit hesitant/ confused. It is a very different way of learning maths to what we normally do, HOWEVER, after establishing the group norms and getting more used to DMIC, the children have enjoyed working in groups and taking charge of their learning. They have also liked being...

Kia Ora, last week I introduced you all to my Inquiry Topic for 2018: Here is a reminder of what that is if you missed my previous blog post: This year I have chosen to focus my inquiry around the Manaiakalani Achievement Challenge 6: Lift Achievement in Maths for all students year 1- 13. Our overarching  school focus is: Acquisition of Language. I will be inquiring into: Would integrating the teaching of strand maths with number, help kids to better acquire key  mathematical language, raising their achievement? I wanted to give you a little update this week on what I trialled in my maths class and how it went. I started teaching Multiplication this week. I have integrated the teaching of the strand of Measurement, in particular Time. What did I do this week to foster 'Acquisition of Language'. 1) Integrating strand into my teaching allows for the children to be exposed to rich language, and an abundance of language, basically every day. In terms...