Now that I have identified my challenge, I have started to collect some data from my Year 7/8 students to help guide my project. This data will help to identify the gaps and and the specific challenges my students have within maths. I collected the following data;
- PAT Data
- GloSS Data
- Maths Knowledge Assessment (SFOA Progressions specific)
- Student and teacher voice
- I looked into our SFOA mathematics digital progressions\
PAT Data
This data shows our Year 7/8 PAT data - students that were above or below the national average.
Within this PAT Data, I looked specifically into the goals that aligned with maths knowledge. I identified what elements of maths knowledge our students struggled with.
Student and Teacher Voice
From this data I had the following wonderings and reflections;
Wonderings
- Teachers lack of understanding of the goals - not sure or wanting to 'tick' it off based off their understanding of the goal.
- Huge discrepancies between level 3 and 4 digital progressions.
- Variances in different knowledge data - some goals stronger than others.
- Basic facts data - concerning, especially in relation to maths strategy.
- A lot of our students don't like learning about proportions and ratios - the data shows a lack of understanding around basic fraction understanding - could this contribute?
Reflections
- Maths team - I have recently joined the school maths team. We are looking into how maths is taught across the school and what needs to change/what we need to look into and research. Some of the elements of our school wide maths that we are diving into includes; the consistency of maths teaching across hubs, the digital learning progressions and possible tools we can integrate into our maths i.e. DIMIC.
- I think my plans are realistic - I would like to do something for the year 5/6 team and year 7/8, but I'm not sure if this is realistic enough for this year. could just trial within year 7/8?
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