week 5 Monitoring

 I have been working very closely with the students as the exam date is getting closer and closer. This week my main focus was on time management within the exam environment. I am planning to set time and see if they are able to finish on time.

Here is the update for last week. Two students have returned from sickness and I am still trying to follow up with one other learner who has not been attending. 

My learners have been working hard after school and Saturday classes. I am trying my best to motivate them as it is not easy to balance school work, extra curricular activities and other commitments. My hunch is I am able to encourage students to study hard by explaining that doing well in this exam could let them get an endorsement. 

Birthday celebration

End of term reflection

 My learners have been working with 1.4 Linear Algebra, eighteen of them completed their last internal and rest of them agreed to come during the holiday break to complete. My learners found it useful with keywords  using google jam-board to understand the contextual base questions. Tweak: I continued catching up with after school this week too.

There are 4 internals and 3 externals in this course.Most of my learners have completed their last internal this week and we are going to start external prep next term.One of the external real exam(MCAT-1.2 Algebra) exam will be next term and rest of them will be on Term4. I discussed with my learners with dates and external contents. The external topics are 1.6 Geometrical reasoning, 1.3 tables and graphs and 1.2 Algebra(MCAT).  There are four different  level of learners  in this class, first group will going for 3 external, second group will be going for 2 external , third group will be going for one external and fourth will be focussing on internals only. My challenge is how to cater for every 28 learners in this class. 

Credits update

Credits remains the same as last week as the last internals is under marking. Here is the feedback from my learners.

 

Term2 Plan

Here is the year planner for the term. I am planning to teach 1.10 Multivariate data with 4 internal credits and 1.4 Linear graphs with 3 internal credits. Further going to continue 1.6 Geometrical reasoning As this is an external standard. Trigonometry As91035(1.10) (4 credits, Internal): Applying SOLO taxonomy, to work on Achievement/Merit/Excellence. Well being checked during Do nows. Literacy strategy-PEEL structure. Workspace.Link ViTaL sheet/teacher dashboard. Using Google calendar to set lessons and video the lesson for rewinding purposes. Extra classes if needed. Peer teaching. At the end of the topic test, I am going to get feedback from the students to build their confidence. Weekly conversation with the Whanau to make strong connections and student voice.

Linear Algebra As91029(1.4) (3 credits, Internal): Applying SOLO taxonomy, to work on Achievement/Merit/Excellence. Well being checked during Do nows. Literacy strategy-PEEL structure and google jam-board. Desmos activities and marble slider activities.Link workspace(WIP). ViTaL sheet/teacher dashboard. Using Google calendar to set lessons and video the lesson for rewinding purposes. Extra classes if needed. Peer teaching. At the end of the topic test, I am going to get feedback from the students to build their confidence. Weekly conversation with the Whanau to make strong connections and student voice.

Geometrical Reasoning  As91031(1.6) (4 credits, External) CTD.

Well being check for week1 & 2

week1 Tuesday

week1 Thursday

week2 Tuesday

week2 Thursday

Well being check

I decided to make a wellbeing check as a 'Do Now' activity to check in on how the students are doing during this challenging time. Below is an overview from the check: 

Miro online board

 Last Wednesday I used Miro online board to teach Circular Geometry and used Apple pencil rather than using fingers,I found it useful for the tricky topic to teach online. Also I have using  Apple pencils with DocHub and Google Jamboard as well. Thank you Tereora Academy for providing us.

Here are some highlights

Here is the students feedback,