Country maths comes to the city
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Country maths comes to the city
- 1. Country Maths comes to the City Simon Borgert Head Teacher Mathematics Killara High School (& casual snake handler)
- 4. Refocus
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- 7. NSW SYLLABUSNSW SYLLABUSfor thefor the AustralianAustralian CurriculumCurriculum
- 13. Old Pedagogy 2014 21st Century LearnerAustralian Curriculum
- 14. Rich Tasks PBL PrBL In the Mathematics Classroom Direct Instruction?
- 16. I’ve been teaching for quite a while @killarahs I’ve been teaching for quite a while @killarahs I’m new but teaching for a while I’m new but teaching for a while I’m pretty new to teaching I’m pretty new to teaching HT - I’ll just hang around HT - I’ll just hang around A new scope and sequence
- 18. ≠ RHS = Google Drive killarahighmaths
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- 21. Assessment for learning as learning of learning @simonborgert simonborgert@gmail.com
Editor's Notes
- Here’s a story of a teacher named Borgy Who was moving all over the place…. Over the last 15 years have worked in a wide variety of schools and organsiations Gives context to my talk!
- Views from the windows! Often asked why would you move - family & challenge & opportunity Found myself settling into the North Coast way of life - positives and negatives
- Move due to opportunity to refocus – less on the Whole School Jobs at Coffs - more on family and teaching Mathematics Loving that discussions at Killara HS are about Mathematics & teaching - not behaviour
- o Here ’ s to the crazy ones! – all the Maths teachers who a just a bit different to other teachers oo Is it just me that complains about all the excursions and interruptions
- In all schools I have worked programs gather dust on shelves – they are static – seperated from resources – designed to satisfy audits
- Reliance on Text books - The textbook is the syllabus – right? – Nice and safe – answers are always in the back
- I joined Twitter in 2008 – It is a fantastic place to share ideas – but limited to those who make the leap – LMS’s for connecting okayish – already had more Killara HS maths teachers joining!
- At Coffs I was often just a lone nut – looking forward to the opportunities for creating movements at Killara HS You need to know your faculty very well and target those that will support transitional change
- • Change by stealth- effective o Introduced scope and sequence with syllabus outcomes = fights over the syllabus book- no units initially o Expectation that technology is integrated – Anne complaining about not being able to check her emails
- – It needs to be a collaborative document oo Electronic version didn ’ t work o Printed out copies
- Unit plans had resources electronically linked o But people were using the paper versions – and links don ’ t work well on paper o Reflection statements were tokenistic o Annotating the programs didn ’ t work – no one did it
- New curriculum offers an excuse a Line in the sand Less time to get to know the staff and their strengths at a new school Learn from previous mistakes
- Before commencing programming at Killara HS workshoped Rich Tasks, PBL & PrBL with faculty – think differently – some teachers very keen
- • o How good would it be if programs were truly collaborative the units of work were dynamic documents with interlinked resources Unfortunately the BoS programming tool doesn ’ t yet allow true collaboration
- • Scope and Sequence generated by a team of 3 o A long term staff member o A newly qualified teacher (retrained engineer) o A teacher with experience but new to the school o Given free reign – with no reference to the textbook!
- Use of Program builder to generate scope and sequence - even colour coded for different strands Nice to produce templates into which outcomes and descriptors are automatically generated Export format a bit icky
- • Set Up of [email_address] - Google Drive account Not waiting for rollout across DEC All staff created their own gmail acouunt (If they didn ’ t have one) o Units generated from Program Builder reformatted, uploaded, and covereted to Google Docs
- Staff nominated which unit they wanted to create for Year 7 o Warning Google Drive doesn ’ t really work on IE8 – was on most of our staffroom computers! Solution get the local administrator password and install Chrome!
- • Many year 7 units are now finished! - Next phase is to get people looking at each other ’ s work and adding to the ideas & resources o Concept of Learning Activities – individual teacher planning choosing activities from within the unit that suit the learning needs of their class Now for Year 9, Year 8 & Year 10
- Included in our programs Assessment Of, For and As learning to allow an easy Gap analysis of where we are focusing on predominately one type of assessment o Needs a change in pedagogy and focus to succeed