Associate Teacher Meeting Notes

Associate teacher meeting notes

Notes re-written to help other teachers from the course attended at AUT

Wai Ako

Date: 31/8/17

Staff PD: Wai Ako - Learning Songs, PD with Roimata Smail

Everyone has trouble with pronunciation of Te Reo Maori - fear of getting it wrong is what holds a lot of people / teachers back.

Resource created to help teachers teach children and get words right.

You can’t learn Te Reo  just by learning individual words - red, white, dog etc.

Songs to teach different aspect of Te Reo.

Te Reo Maori Curriculum has 8 levels to be taught at Years 1-13.  Two levels to be taught at primary school.

Would need to learn about 6 songs a year to cover the curriculum over the course of primary school, which works out about 1 ½ songs a term.

To incorporate it into your classroom, try adding the Ata Marie song and using the greetings at roll time.

Website:  Waiako.com

Contains the songs, notes for teachers, links to MoE lesson plans, how to incorporate it into your classroom routine, how to review learning and peer assessment.

How can the whole school and community support the learning of Te Reo?  You may find there are people in the community who are able to support you in school.

Team meeting PBL Notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iHtrbms53bDV6NF9uZlrmfdNqyOMoqQnD0lhT_WDuQA/edit

Maths observation and follow ups

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fkENRX_2MrppQTI3Bm9pDY4XvieCwNvxY2DKIM2yq04/edit?ts=5914af4b

This was a good exercise but I wanted Susan to see more that I have been finding hard - so we talked through using more of the assessment and how my groups might change more frequently to fill in small gaps for different students

Going forward it does  give me more confidence that I am on the right track with my maths programme. Using the new task boards has meant greater independence during Maths time and it was great that Susan reinforced that these are on the right track