Today's Reflections from Coaching conversation with Su

Rob Coaching notes Oruaiti

DATE: 14 May 2019

GOAL: How to get the students to articulate and explain what they are learning,
why they are learning it and how they know they have been successful

To have visible exemplars on the walls for students next steps for R, W, M

WHY? Data from RBL has shown that when we ask a cross section of students they
aren’t able to answer that. In order for learning to be fully embedded they need to be
able to articulate their answers and thinking.
If they can do this then they can apply their knowledge and understanding to new situations.
Building the motivation and skills for life-long learning and problem solving

REALITY:

At the moment they are reading it off the board

Can’t necessarily apply it to a new situation

Not transferring skills to Gloss test

Want on the back wall:

ADD/ SUB example of a problem the strategy the next steps all in a line across the wall.

E.g.

Stage 6 I have 112 sheep in a field, I add 126 sheep. How many sheep do I have altogether

Making tens

Making tidy numbers

Place value partitioning

Stage 7 Add/ subtract four digit numbers

So that after a test they can go to the wall and point to where they are at and therefore what
their next steps are.

OPTIONS:

Change the task section on board to a why

Change ‘success criteria’ to ‘How’

Look for ideas for wall displays on pinterest to help students identify their next steps.

WHAT NEXT:

By the end of week four I will have researched different examples of classroom exemplars
so that I can modify them to fit our school.