Number Sense with Positive Education

Ximena's Math Story: Story Hui

Maths: Talk Moves and Formative Assessment

We started the session with a Number Talk. We worked in groups to discuss the benefits of Talk Moves as a way to elicit student thinking. 

Maths Moderation

Shona and Gabrielle presented their reading: Aligning Assessment with Brain Science by Jo Boaler

 

Maths PLD: Overview, 1st July 2018

Imagine you are going to a Maths conference: What are the titles of the workshops you will go to?


We are all working through the Stanford Online Jo Boaler Course: How to teach Math. Here is a summary of what we have implemented so far.

Matariki/ Mahutonga

Tautoru



Autahi



Hunches

We shared some hunches and asked staff to evaluate.

Goals/ Actions from discussion about Jo Boaler Course

Writing- Session 6

We got into our Jigsaw groups and shared what we have learnt from our readings. We did presentations to our group.

Suz, Scott- Alison Davis- Chapter 4, Different writing instruction

Alison Davis- Chapter 4, Different writing instruction

Nic, Gabrielle- Jo Boaler/ Growth Mindset and Assessment

John, Gillian - What do writers say good writing?

Ximena, Anna  - Effective writing (Murray Gadd)



Shona, Susie - Teachers as readers and writers (apologies)

Monday 7th August, Maths: Internal Evaluation and intro to Number Talks

The Maths PD links with our Internal Evaluation.

The session involved:
Reading Research Brief: Five “Key Strategies” for Formative Assessment (Dylan Wiliam)
Watching Number Talks Clips by Jo Boaler and Kyle Thain
Looking at Seesaw Maths as a form of formative assessment
We Discussed next steps...

Here are the slides from the meeting (including video links):

As part of our Internal Evaluation, we will be trying new things in Maths and present back on Monday 4th September: 

I have started a Number Talks Crowd Sourced Document. It is full of great resources: