We had our second MIT Hui this week at KPMG in Auckland.Our session started with the following reflection questions;
- What's working?
- What's not?
- What's next?
What's working?
I'm really enjoying collaborating with Sarah on our combined project. It's great to have someone to bounce ideas off and to gain her perspective for a different age group and group of students. We seem to be on the same page with what we want to create for our final project. Due to the collaboration this project provides, it's great to have this opportunity to create a tool that will work alongside not just my target learners but also other level learners.
We have both had a play with google sheets - this is how we will present our digital tool to our learners. I feel that I have a much clearer understanding of where I am heading in comparison to our last Hui.
Link to google sheets
What's not?
As fantastic as it is collaborating with another colleague, this also means we need to ensure that we meet up regularly - something we have not done enough of to date. We need to make sure we schedule in times and dates where we will catch up and go over our project to ensure we align our thinking and keep each other accountable.
I need to ensure my project aligns with what is happening in regards to maths at my school. Currently we are looking into our school wide maths programme, I need to ensure this fits in with what we are trying to achieve. I am confident it will, as through looking at the data, this is an area of maths that needs intervention.
Time is a further barrier to my project. I need to prioritise my project more this coming term and start trialing it out with my target students.
What's next?
Sarah and I need to set some goals together for the rest of the term. We need to decide what we will focus on (i.e. what specific knowledge goals), where we will get our information from and how we will structure our digital tool. We also need to make plans for when we will meet up together.
We have given our project a name - Matauranga Pangarau (meaning Maths Knowledge in Te reo Māori).
We have also looked into our our original individual challenge statements - reflecting on these we have decided to tweak these to ensure they are the same for both of us and reflect each others learners.
My original statement was "A significant number of our 2021 Year 7/8 cohort are below curriculum level expectation in Mathematics, due to gaps in their maths knowledge". This has changed to " Along with the rest of New Zealand learners, a large number of our Year 5-8 students are below curriculum level expectation, due to gaps in their maths knowledge".
We incorporated the phrase “along with the rest of New Zealand” to highlight that this is an issue across the rest of New Zealand and not just in our schools.
Feedback
After sharing this information with the group, we gained some feedback on the ways that we could use our project in the classroom.
- The project could be used as a whole class do-now/hotspot - i.e. on the projector at the start of the lesson for 5 minutes "How many questions can you do?"
- Independent maths time, maths workshops, home learning, it could be given to students from the teacher after identified needs.
My next steps now are to create some more maths knowledge sheets and trial them out in the classroom. I'm looking forward to seeing how the students respond to them and discovering the different ways they can be used.
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