Kerikeri Northland PCTS

Kerikeri Northland PCTS

Facilitator- Vera Unka

Reflection

Notice, Recognize, Respond, Revisit

8 March 2019




I noticed my Maths lesson falling apart on Wednesday this week. My students were losing focus as I was spending too much time explaining the task and were sitting on the mat for far too long. I sat in a circle with my class and we went through a worksheet with the learning goal being, “Understanding and using tally charts”. I found a need to revisit tally charts from a previous lesson. My students were disengaged and most of them were not interested in the learning.

The following day I completely changed my plan and created a rotation which would eliminate the time explaining the task on the mat and doing a task as a whole class. I incorporated pie graphs, tally charts, ipads and a maths game into the rotation. They were revisiting previous learning with tally charts and they were getting some new learning with pie graphs.

I found that the students were more engaged with the learning doing this rotation. Although, I feel as though some students still are not engaging and not working.

Reflecting on this I think I need to implement and model what I am looking for within each group for the rotation. Potentially having roles within the group that they must undertake. I need to teach them to work as a team and model what i am wanting to see. An idea that instantly springs to mind is having a lesson playing a maths game. Each maths group needs to work as a team to complete the problem. Once they have completed it they check the answers with the teacher and if they get it correct they can move on to the next question.