Term 3 Week 3

Tuesday 7 August

Lovely to see the tamariki after the holidays.  Everyone has come back with a willingness to learn and have slotted straight back into same routines as last term.

There has been some unsettling times with a little boy showing defiance and refusing to follow instructions when he doesn't want to.  I have put an incentive chart in place and hopefully after repetition and more positive praise and conversations it may work.

This term I plan to dig into the tamariki's imagination with their writing and look into descriptive language and quantity of the writing.  Towards the end of last term some of the language that was coming out in was great so I want to strengthen that.  Another area is putting their work on Seesaw app.  We have started and the response and enthusiasm has been amazing.

On a sad note I have lost one child to Hamilton and then one more will be leaving to go up north.  It leaves a big hole and will take a bit of adjusting to.  I hope that I have guided them enough to carry on with what they have learned in to their new schools.

Reflection 13 June 2018

Wow.  Been a while and so much has been happening.  This term I took ventured into a collaborative teaching classes with Sarah.  Initially I was so excited that I was going to have this opportunity.  As the weeks have gone by though, I am feeling that I am not comfortable with the ways things are going as collaborative.  We went into this venture with only the knowledge from what others teachers have tried and not much research being done and PLD around collaborative teaching.

Reading is going well, but I feel that Maths and Writing need to be more emphasised in the daily programme.  This is something that I really need to focus on and improve to support the tamariki in those areas.  So much of a range of needs with the children from letter formations to separating ideas (paragraphs). 

The change of classes has been awesome though and the tamariki that we are working with are great along with the other teacher, although only a BT.  With the support from Kyra and Robyn we are looking at structuring our teaching more effectively around collaborative teaching in Reading and are working on having everything ready for day 1 Term 3.  It is a lot of work, but I think that it will pay off both personal professional development and for the tamariki.  Things are looking up.  Trial and error as they say.



We are currently at that time of year again where we are inundated with testing and reports.  Although very draining, once again it is exciting seeing the progress that the tamariki are making with their learning.  Feels that I am doing something right.

The environemt around school is continuing to improve and the change of 'businness' view to having our tamariki as the forefront of everything we do is a exciting.  Even commenta re being made around the community about the positive changes that are being made and are seen out there are overwhelming.

Looking forward to up and coming weeks and terms.