TOD - 27 November 2017
Literacy - Gaylene discussed the Hamilton East teaching reading expectation.
https://sites.google.com/hameast.school.nz/curriculum/reading/whole-school
SMART - focussing on 1 strategy until fully embedded and then moving to the next one. Children get confused when bombarded with too many strategies at the same time. Just say " Try it "
List of reading prompts made by Lynda - repeated reading seen text with a teacher aide until 100% accuracy. Teacher does the normal teaching.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nGYByEpP-9T-iO5hPwVAN7FvPf6ZlYPi
STEPS - specifically designed for dyslexic kids, goes over and over the word to get embedded , they need to see the word 500 times. they need to do it everyday. The children can follow the prog in high school as well.
Monday, November 27, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Bruce Moody - Statistics & Probability
Statistics
PPDAC -
P-Pose ( Question) What kind of a question that leads to data and analysis
P-Plan
D- Data
A- Analyse
C- Conclusions
Is actually good for children to go through a cycle, invisage the cycle . Once the you have concluded, it keeps going.leading from one investigation to another.
Children needs to know that statistics change the world.
Has to have a purpose for a statistical investigation.
For Eg- How many colours on each table, collected the data ,then teacher said this table needs more white or more red. So need to go further after investigation, need to have a reason or suggestion, that gives children the statistical to make a claim. What are we gonna do with this information ?
In class after lunch, the children had to read mandatory. The teacher collected the info -
Teacher read - 15 & Self reading - 10
Teacher read - 15 & Self reading - 10
The class decided 3 days the teacher would read and 2 days self read. There are no losers or winners. Children learnt that outcome helps to make decision and respond.
More & Most
It’s quite a crucial
Do not use the word most unless more than half the votes are there for a certain thing.
Changing the vote system have a big impact on the results. For eg if each child is allowed to have 2 votes instead of 1 , it totally reverse the situations. Which is your favourite ice cream? Which will be the best one for the class? will change the result when they are allowed to do 2 votes.
Don’t do it with your children.
Make sure the question is worded properly
Be aware of two terms - Favourite and common.
Linking the word favourite with something they have no control. Favourite - eye colour
Favourite is okay for an opinion. Hokey pokey ice cream is a favourite
Pie Graph for young learners - Google circle marked into sectors. Children cut it out and colour their own sector and put the same colour together and put in a circle and make a pie chart. Children can read the pie chart without knowing what a pie chart is.
Tally chart is to organise the data. Use ice block sticks to do a tally chart.Do it physically first , then you can draw the sticks telling chn instead of physically collecting.
Bi - Virate - Having two variables - How many people likes Hokey pokey Ice cream & who likes more - boys or girls.
Multi - Variate- Asking or posing a question that has lots of variates - collecting two or more data simultaneously. Flying dart - Boys & Girls, darts with twisted nose or twisted tails.
Statistical Literacy -
Level 3 - spend less time collecting the data instead on posing and analysing.
Bi - Virate - Having two variables - How many people likes Hokey pokey Ice cream & who likes more - boys or girls.
Multi - Variate- Asking or posing a question that has lots of variates - collecting two or more data simultaneously. Flying dart - Boys & Girls, darts with twisted nose or twisted tails.
Statistical Literacy -
Level 3 - spend less time collecting the data instead on posing and analysing.
Probability
Probability is based on Statistics.
Eg - Chn went on a trip at mount, the teacher asked them
What did you see?
If we went again would we see fantail?
The Chn answered the second question in response to what they saw - statistics.
Looking at data helps making a prediction - probability
Variation & Outcome
Variation is normal.
When u flip a coin 10 times, would you get 5 heads & 5 tails ?
Chn might think yes, but its no , need to tell Chn variation is normal.
Friday, July 21, 2017
ConnecTed 2017
ConnectED 2017 Southwell School
Nathan Wallis (Keynote)
The Fascinating Brain (Ka Tikaka o Ka Roro)
Brain development researcher.
The first thousand days of your life (from conception to 2.6) are the critical
years for brain development. Intelligence isn't inherited. Its the data we
gather in the first thousand days of life that dictate intelligence. Later
intelligence links back to those first thousand days.
There are no genes that transmit intelligence.
Epigenetics - how genes respond to the environment.
Example of epigenetics - an increase in physical size and IQ is evident in each
generation. This isn't evolutionary because genes take thousands of years
to change. Epigenetics makes you taller and have a higher IQ because of
improved nourishment, easier physical living, more stimulating intellectual
environment.
Intelligence doesn't come from genes, so where does it come
from?
Firstborn children often are the most
successful.
The number of words spoken to them per day from
day one has a profound impact on stimulating the brain and developing the
cognitive processes.
Processing language is the most complex thing
your brain does.
For the first year of life language is most
important with their primary caregiver (mother).
Babies have to attune to someone to learn
language. Only words being directly addressed to the baby are taken in.
Brain develops most in the first year through
engaging with the primary caregiver. The first six months are about attachment
to mother. Having your baby facing out rather than towards you in the
pram means they have a smaller amount of brain activity than if they are
looking at you.
Dyslexia and Autism have a strong genetic
component. ADHD is more environmentally influenced.
Risk and resilience - risk factors - poverty, alcoholism etc at one end
of the spectrum, at the other best outcomes from the quality
Risk factors - parents in prison, no education, no family
connection, violence, large families. having a child put on a sleep programme
in the first 18 months of life. Having a child in childcare in the first three
years.
Resiliency - biggest factor is mother staying home for the first
year of life. Others involve playing a musical instrument, speaking your first
language, having a close relationship with grandparents.
Resiliency comes in the third brain - the lymbic
system. We are inclined to push through to get the frontal cortex engaging
before it is ready to fire up.
Most kids will have risk factors!
(for every dollar you spend on children in
the first thousand days you save 17 later in life)
The research says that a child who is
at home with his mother even if she gives him minimal attention, he is better
off than if he is in a highly qualified early childcare centre.
if they do need to go into childcare, it is
better to have it happen in the child's own home.
Cortisol is a stress chemical the brain
produces. 80% engagment with mother keeps cortisol low.
Neurophysical aspects
Our brain is made up of four brains - the fourth
one, the frontal cortex, is the most critical one - it does everything
that a human can do that a dog can't do. Language for example happens is in the
frontal cortex. Also includes empathy, controlling emotions etc.
Brain one is the brain stem - survival - keeps
you breathing.
Brain two is about movement.
Brain three (lymbic system) the mammal brain -
the parenting brain, the emotional brain, procreating, protecting your
offspring.
The brain is fully grown by age twelve but it
doesn't fully mature until later. Over time we have pushed out the time it
takes to reach full development. Now it is seen as not reaching full maturity
until the late twenties, or early thirties.
Gender has different results. One matures faster than the other. Female
brains develop faster.
The majority of females reach maturity between
18 and 24. Men up to 32.
Birth order has an effect. First born girls are
closer to 18 reaching adulthood than later siblings.
Having a girl first then a boy is disadvantaging
for the boy rather than the other way round, where a boy is born first. Girls
have a double advantage of being first born and having a faster maturing brain.
If a boy is born first he has the advantage of being first born.
Boys are not ready for literacy and numeracy
learning before the age of seven. Yet we are pushing this from age five.
Frontal cortex comes into its
Nathan Wallis
ConnectED 2017 Southwell School
The Fascinating Brain (Ka Tikaka o Ka Roro)
Brain development researcher.
The first thousand days of your life (from conception to 2.6) are the critical years for brain development. Intelligence isn't inherited. Its the data we gather in the first thousand days of life that dictate intelligence. Later intelligence links back to those first thousand days.
There are no genes that transmit intelligence.
Epigenetics - how genes respond to the environment.
Example of epigenetics - an increase in physical size and IQ is evident in each generation. This isn't evolutionary because genes take thousands of years to change. Epigenetics makes you taller and have a higher IQ because of improved nourishment, easier physical living, more stimulating intellectual environment.
Firstborn children often are the most successful.
The number of words spoken to them per day from day one has a profound impact on stimulating the brain and developing the cognitive processes.
Processing language is the most complex thing your brain does.
For the first year of life language is most important with their primary caregiver (mother).
Babies have to attune to someone to learn language. Only words being directly addressed to the baby are taken in.
Brain develops most in the first year through engaging with the primary caregiver. The first six months are about attachment to mother. Having your baby facing out rather than towards you in the pram means they have a smaller amount of brain activity than if they are looking at you.
Dyslexia and Autism have a strong genetic component. ADHD is more environmentally influenced.
Risk and resilience - risk factors - poverty, alcoholism etc at one end of the spectrum, at the other best outcomes from the quality
Risk factors - parents in prison, no education, no family connection, violence, large families. having a child put on a sleep programme in the first 18 months of life. Having a child in childcare in the first three years.
Resiliency - biggest factor is mother staying home for the first year of life. Others involve playing a musical instrument, speaking your first language, having a close relationship with grandparents.
Resiliency comes in the third brain - the lymbic system. We are inclined to push through to get the frontal cortex engaging before it is ready to fire up.
Most kids will have risk factors!
(for every dollar you spend on children in the first thousand days you save 17 later in life)
The research says that a child who is at home with his mother even if she gives him minimal attention, he is better off than if he is in a highly qualified early childcare centre.
if they do need to go into childcare, it is better to have it happen in the child's own home.
Cortisol is a stress chemical the brain produces. 80% engagment with mother keeps cortisol low.
Neurophysical aspects
Our brain is made up of four brains - the fourth one, the frontal cortex, is the most critical one - it does everything that a human can do that a dog can't do. Language for example happens is in the frontal cortex. Also includes empathy, controlling emotions etc.
Brain one is the brain stem - survival - keeps you breathing.
Brain two is about movement.
Brain three (lymbic system) the mammal brain - the parenting brain, the emotional brain, procreating, protecting your offspring.
The brain is fully grown by age twelve but it doesn't fully mature until later. Over time we have pushed out the time it takes to reach full development. Now it is seen as not reaching full maturity until the late twenties, or early thirties.
Gender has different results. One matures faster than the other. Female brains develop faster.
The majority of females reach maturity between 18 and 24. Men up to 32.
Birth order has an effect. First born girls are closer to 18 reaching adulthood than later siblings.
Having a girl first then a boy is disadvantaging for the boy rather than the other way round, where a boy is born first. Girls have a double advantage of being first born and having a faster maturing brain. If a boy is born first he has the advantage of being first born.
Boys are not ready for literacy and numeracy learning before the age of seven. Yet we are pushing this from age five. Frontal cortex comes into its
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| Nathan Wallis |
LincEd - PL Day
Thanks to Georgia for a well designed PL session on our new SMS LincEd.
We were able to work at our own pace, with support from colleagues and the experts.
It is so much simpler than Etap and has many useful links.
Areas covered were navigating the menu - finding the roll, classes, assessments, photos and connecting the app to our phones.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVHEEMT09RgfYlj87S95dapvGnMlbO08g9-kw-MYyx4/edit
We were able to work at our own pace, with support from colleagues and the experts.
It is so much simpler than Etap and has many useful links.
Areas covered were navigating the menu - finding the roll, classes, assessments, photos and connecting the app to our phones.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SVHEEMT09RgfYlj87S95dapvGnMlbO08g9-kw-MYyx4/edit
Friday, January 27, 2017
Using Gmail & Calendar more efficiently
Google Doc Training Day
This was a training day for Google Doc but Martin the started at the beginning with E Mail, Calendars and tidying up our systems.
I found it extremely useful.
I now feel for the first time that I have control of my e mail.
I am going to be using the calendar more now.
I am looking forward to learning more about Google Doc.
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