Kia ora, my name is Hannah Burton. I am the Creative Space and Extension teacher at Pt England School in Auckland, New Zealand. I began teaching at Pt England School in 2016 and am now in my 9th year here. During this time, I have been in the Manaiakalani Digital Teacher Academy, been a Manaiakalani-Google Class OnAir teacher, a Manaiakalani Innovative Teacher and a within-school Kahui ako (CoL) teacher.
Friday, 1 December 2023
PAT Maths Data
Top 3 take aways from this year
At our final Kāhui Ako meeting for the year, Chris Herlihy, Principal of Glen Taylor School, prompted us to think about what our Top 3 Take-aways would be from our inquiries this year.
Here are the top 3 takeaways I have come up with based on my inquiry:
1. Students need mileage when it comes to maths, like we do in reading. That is, if we are wanting children to be able to better apply their multiplication knowledge, we need to ensure we are giving them lots of problems in lots of different contexts.
2. Giving students opportunities to grapple with problems individually as well as in groups is really important. Some children benefit from group work with some children and not others. I have not yet found an answer of how to be more effective with organising a class or group of students to best suit ALL students and their learning.
3. Children really benefit from structure and routine. I think ensuring a consistent structure to a maths programme in the classroom could really benefit children and their learning. That is, expectations are clear from day-to-day and the structure of the learning remains similar.
A challenge to consider next would be how to achieve both 2 and 3 in a consistent way.