MATHS REFLECTIONS

This week our learning in reading has been,"How to read worded Maths questions." Here is what we are thinking so far...

Declan: use the diagrams to help your understanding

Rosie: find key words about what the question is asking

Caitlin: the key words lead us to answer correctly

Hannah B: check the text and the diagrams before trying to answer the question

Jordi: if the question is tricky, eleminate the obvious non-answers

Can you help us with some more?

FEEDBACK FOR THE TEACHER

Notes to Text

   

What Worked Well (WWW)	Even Better If (EBI)
Alexa: I liked the way we worked in steps to learn the skills Eva: I liked that we learnt at our own pace Ava: I liked the process we followed Tom: I liked how we really revised each step Luke: I enjoyed using the Chrome book for research Lucas: I liked how we learnt the skills ahead of time. Declan: I liked researching the facts myself	Caitlin: we had more conversation with partners beforehand Ben: more collaboration Hannah B: more collaboration with groups on the same topic Ava: more whole class brainstorming Alexa: more sharing of ideas beforehand

Topic Sentences

EXPERT GROUPS TEACHING MATHS

A wonderful aspect of fourth term is seeing a year of learning come to fruition. So it was when the senior classes recently

researched  aspects of geometry in expert groups. Over three to four days, the students presented their learning while their peers took notes and gave feedback. Here's the student feedback! Great to see the pros dominate!

Expert Groups for Maths

Pros	Cons
Show what we can do ourselves	Diverse learning levels
More fun to design own learning	Some explanations from presenters mightn’t be clear
Fun and learning at the same time	Not always equal contributions of the team
Learning at own rate
makes us more independent
Get to see how others work
Variety of topics
Enjoy doing own research and teaching others
Everyone gets a turn compared to normal class
Worked with different people

PREP STORYTIME LED BY STUDENT LEADERS

As part of our buddy relationship, we decided to start storytime for Preps. We decided to start this because we saw all the Preps in the library at lunch trying to read their books but it was really challenging them so they asked us if we could read it to them. Because of that, every Tuesday and Wednesday lunchtime, we select three books and read it to them. They love it and so do we. They give positive feedback all the time. We interact really well now and they aren't too shy to have a little conversation. Madi, Jess and Mairead

www.ebi.com......class of 2011...the "feedback champions!"

This week we tried some different ways of working! In order to evaluate the week's success we created a new strategy...www.ebi.com. Even giving feedback was fun this way.