Thinking about learning

 New  curriculum workshop Many new ideas were raised during the workshops- the first is that students are ready for learning or not. This must be done on a cellural level, acording to research. The first 5 Minutes must be spend on relationbuilding to open the gateway to learning.This is being done with Moari inititive games and activities to create a connection. The lecturer said we rush to finish the curriculum and cover the material. Relationship building is more important The curriculum is pie in sky idea and will not raise the achievement . You -the teacher can make a difference. When people ask you what you do and reply-I am sucked at Maths or I hate maths or it was my worst subject at school , you can change the next generation we are gap fillers show the material in different ways-models, digital, paper, picturesm, words, numbers, graphs We make fraction mistalkes because we use whole number rules Use the fFeyer model and tip charts and vocub list in the class to help w...

One big factor that effect outcomes is attendance--or lack of attendance-The questions to ask is how big is the problem, how does this effect students, what cause the current problem and how can it be solved this How missing school affects performance According to Education Review Office (ERO), attendance is “directly related to how well learners achieve” . The more they attend, the higher their achievement (including more credits in New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) NCEA). ( Evidence ERO ) ERO states there is no safe level of non-attendance . Even missing just two days a term is linked to lower achievement. ( Evidence ERO ) The relationship is illustrated by the graph in the report showing: as the attendance rate (horizontal axis) declines, so do NCEA Level 1 credits earned (vertical axis). ( Evidence ERO ) For example, an older commentary noted that in NZ, if a child attends only ~70% rather than ~80% of school in Year 11, the probability of achieving NCEA Level ...

 I attended the Google summit in the October holidays. It was a great opportunity to learn about al the new development  in the Google AI world.  The Key speaker pointed out that AI can be a teacher aid for every student.The theme for the summit was to level every student up with AI. Gemini has a special guided application that will promt, guide, give feedback to the  the student to find the answer like a real teacher will do. This is really useful, however, with the new generation being brought up with fast food and instant gratification I think they will use AI just to get quick answers. One of the criticisms and danger is that AI will stop us from thinking because AI will do the thinking for us.  The first session was using Genvid to create short movies. The templates is helpful and the stock images is good to create an stabilising shot to start the movie. You can create new movie content using Ai prompts with another application called VEO. This is very usef...

 Student forget most of the work they have learned last year after the long December holiday.This is called  the summer slump. Even during the year, two weeks after you have taugh the work ,you have to start and teach it again.  How can you teach in order for the student to remember it for a long time? You can do revision before the exams.This helps but is forgotten after the exams. Doing old work now and again is called maintanance and  result in rembering it for a muck longer time. Chunking the work and spread it out is better than blockbusting and crashcoursing. Using acronyms and memory tricks help.  Reperition is the mother of memory. Do the same work in many different ways build memory. Emotional connection and  mindmaps is tools taht help memory. When students figure it out, struggle and discover the answers themself they have it for life  

 The Herald repord that more that half of students dot attend school regurlary in term two across New Zealand and across all schools Teaching emppty classrooms is quiet difficult because you have start all over again when a student walk in after  3 weeks of not attending school. Tou basically have to to teach the whole unit standard one to one with every student because the miss the begiining classes that link=d the lessons together. The stastistic in the Herald doesn't include who is justified sick, on school trips, attending culture and sport events during school time, attending weedings and funerals, Attending off site BCAT cources, Spirit of adventure and outbard bound trips Students come late and learn early , truancy ect- and we have No seniors  in class on Monday, result in very empty classrooms. Workspace is a life saver. Students who miss classes must catch up on work in workspace. Mrs David make videos  for students to watch when they returned from abcence....

 We attend a workshop at Epson Girls to learn how to plan for the newNCEA roll out next year. We have to teach the 4 new unit standards as well as the common assessmt to get 10 numeracy credits. How do you do it all in one year? The were three options to do the new NCEA. one was thematic, the other was to do one unit per term that is worth 5 credits Epson girls decided that they will do the common assessment in year 10 and only do one external at the end of the year for 5 credits and rather focus on level 2 in year 11. students who do not pass the common assessemnt in year 10 will be in a special class in year 11 and do the common assesment in year 11. St Cutbert has dumped the NCEA and Common assessment and write their own. Then they have control who pass and everyone will pass. Their argument is that it to much statistic based and therefore not good enough to prepare their students for Calculus in year 12 and 13.This is strange that they refuse to do the new NCEA because many of ...