working with Mark Milford CTD

 I caught up with Mark Milford again to improve my literacy teaching strategies. Here is an example of one of the practice tests.

Mark Milford suggested I modify the practice test with the following:

(1) Students highlight the keywords and write predictions.

(2) What is a Navigator? port?

(3) Spot Mooring? (Mathtown) peninsula?-Match these with the diagram before the start the practice test?

Here is the modified version of the practice test.

I found Miro, an online board, very useful for Matching activities to review straight lines, Parabolas, Hyperbolas, circles, and tangents.

(write out thinking, I ask…, next I ask….. If its……. Then it is a) 

As 91259 Trigonometry Reflection(3)

 I have moderated and here are the outcomes:

There are 13 learners in the classroom. 5 learners have gained Excellence,  4 learners have gained Merit, 3 learners have gained Achievement, and one more learner work on progress.

Here is the final update:

Professional reading 2

 In my Inquiry year 12Mas(Statistics) class, I was looking for more strategies to strenghen my learners' literacy strategies. I can across a literacy guide, here is the link. It is about 17 Literacy strategies for teachers to improve their classroom practice.

What are literacy strategies? Are the techniques and approaches used to develop enhanced speaking, listening skills, writing, and enhanced writing Learners aim to improve critical thinking, comprehension, critical thinking, and effective communication.

Here are the 17 strategies:

(1) Annotate the text-This strategy encourage students to provide their own commentary on a text by highlighting keynotes, writing text or circle, etc.

(2) Working in teams- This teamwork enhances and deepens the understanding of literacy.

(3) Read loud-Improve their active listening skills.

(4) Host a book recommendation event-

(5) Encourage students to choose their own book-

(6) Making a geographically map-Useful practice when attempting to accommodate different academic strengths. 

(7) Conduct individual meetings with students-I found this useful for my slow learners.

(8) Offer reading awards-

(9) Perform the text-giving students the opportunity to both write and perform so they can experience both mediums.

(10) Provide visual organizer- flow charts, arrows, etc.

(11) Play classroom games-

(12) Use a mnemonic device as a memory tool.

(13) " Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review:

(14) Engage with the author-

(15) Draw or paint-

(16) Use time reading session-

(17) Assign journaling project-

By incorporation these literacy strategies into my statistics class, I can support my learenrs' comprehension, critical thinking and overall success in learning and applying statistical concepts.

PEEL structure

 Analysis:

We used PEEL structure to write the Analysis. My learners are confident with PEE already from the first topic and I introduce L only.

P: Point

E: Explain

E : Numerical Evidence

L : Link to the population

Here is an example:

Latest ethnicity update

 Three learners joined my class and two learners moved due to career pathways. There are 14 learners in this class, 3 Samoans, 1 Niuean, 1 Maori, 7 Tongans, and 2 Cook Island Maori. 

 

Last year's NCEA  result shows, one learner obtained a Merit endorsement, and six obtained an 

Achieved endorsement through the Statistical pathway.

One learner obtained an Achieved endorsement through Calculus and switched to the Statistics 

pathway this year and the rest did not gain any endorsements or came from the internal pathways.

Second topic/ Term1

As91264(2.9) Statistical Inference-Internal 4 credits-

This is our second topic with 4 (internal) credits assignment.

What is Statistical Inference? This is a very English-rich standard and continuation work done in

L1 Multivariate data. Effective work of the PPDAC cycle is essential. A lot of writing is involved.

I am planning to break it into 3 checkpoints in order to make this smooth and manageable for my learners.

Here is the plan:

• Apply SOLO taxonomy- To differentiate between Achievement/Merit/Excellence.

• Comprehension -Vocab introduced(My definition strategy), underlining the keywords, Acronyms, think loud strategy.

• Think loud strategy: Recently attended the toolkit workshop by Dr. Naomi Rosedale ( Manaiakalani literacy facilitator) and I found it useful to read and solve problems.

• PPDAC cycle.

• ViTaL sheet.

• Peer teaching- Made them into groups and worked on the whiteboard to build confidence.

• Workspace and Google Calendar.

• Video Lessons- Short videos.

• Google Quizlet flashcards to familiarize yourself with keywords.

• PEEL Structure to write the analysis.

• CODAC to create a box and whisker graph-Introduced on calculus day in 2021.

• Afternoon class for those missed lessons due to other commitments.

• Checklist to meet all the requirements.

Checkpoint: There are 3 checkpoints.

Checklist:

Think loud strategy:

Think loud PLD 

Think Loud example