Place Value toolkit

 We had term four toolkits this week after the last high registrations and popular demand for maths I decided to do another math toolkit this time around place Value. I spent some of my non-contact time in the holidays researching and looking at the digital resources available. It was valuable to look at the work I covered as a maths facilitator 4 years ago and what is out there and being researched today and it is still the same misconceptions and a lot of the same activities. The only difference is the digital access to online manipulatives and materials and lots of videos so the work becomes multimodal. So I connected what we were facilitating over 4 years ago with the digital resources available today.  There is also a big focus on mixed ability groups and rich mathematical questions with the context connected to the student's interests, culture, and community.  It was a great workshop with over 66 registered and over 50 attending. 

 

 This is some of the feedback from the participants. There seems to be a high need for maths PLD across our schools. Manaiakalani is in the process of creating a maths expert role in maths for the clusters to focus on maths and PLD. 

Wananga 2021

 With current times we are in with Covid and Auckland still being in Lockdown week 21 the Maniakalani Wananga was moved to an online platform. We meet as a team on Thursday before to prepare for the day. The Northland team met at Lees house in Kerikeri which was the first time face-to-face as a team all year. It was so nice to see each other face to face you don't realize how much you miss it till it happens. 

This was a great day to prepare for the Wananga as we would be leading the clusters for the day. It was good to be prepared and knowledgeable about the day and the research quoted. 

Te Hiku cluster met at Paparore school with 7 of our 10 schools represented with principal and lead teachers present. It was a long day of listening to presenters and an hour near the end for us to unpack our data and set goals for 2022.  The MIT presentations were great and I am looking forward to investigating these in more detail. The research team did great job feedback on the data and the new system edpotential is a clear tool for understanding the data and graphs.