Yesterday afternoon our staff had a PLD with Sue Pine. Her focus was on Book 1 (NZ Maths). We brainstormed all the strategies that we know about numbers regarding our children’s levels (year 3 & 4) and what they need to know by the end of this year. For example at the end of year 2 students should be able to work at Stage 4: Advanced counting and at the end of year 3 students will be able to work at the early stage 5 and at the end of year 4 they should be work at stage 5. We did our brainstorm and come up with these
This task makes me realised where my students are at and where to next and what I really need to focus on. Sue encouraged us to move away from ability group to mixed group so they can learn from each other using talk moves. What I got from today’s PLD is:
- Have mixed ability groups so that students learn from each other.
- Encourage students to participate in discussions.
- Have high expectations
