Teaching Portfolio

Today we walked through the senior block. Several things stood out for me: very individual classroom styles, wall displays varied greatly from class to class. children working predominantly at desks quiet noise level/calm environment differences in collaboration Questions/thoughts Something that stood out for us was the different styles of collaboration. One partnership we saw referred to their individual classes as being classes within their team. The way the physical space was set up also clearly defined who teaches in which room. Dean and I made a deliberate choice to not specify who teaches who or in which room. We have set our space up as 'ours' with one teacher station and the rest of the space for the children to work in. Are the different collaborative styles effecting our children? We have had several year 3 parents this year very confused about the way we collaborate compared to the juniors, is this going to happen again for our year 4s next year? How to ...

GOAL As a result of explicit, focussed learning intentions 85% of my children will be at or above the standard in writing by 30 November 2016. PLAN I plan to do this through Attending Louise Dempsey PD and implementing appropriate ideas (criteria) Co-construct learning intentions Clear next steps written in children's books based around their goal Group based goals Tracking writing data and sharing findings with children to co-construct next steps Integrate learning intentions across the curriculum to generate authentic learning tasks Schedule feedback time (see every child once a fortnight) for children to reflect on goals and next steps - feed into new learning intentions. Integrate reading and writing as much as possible to create authentic literacy learning THEORY/RESEARCH Professional Readings/Research Effective Literacy Practice (Ministry of Education, 2006) -  Assessment leads to improved learning when feedback is related to shared learning goals a...