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Kei waenganui te akonga - Kei manawa te akonga
 Bernie Wills
Assistant Head of Learning Area Mathematics

Frances Horne
Co-Head of Learning Area Mathematics

Hutt Valley High School

frances.horne@hvhs.school.nz bernie.wills@hvhs.school.nz
Co-educational school in Lower Hutt
1750 students and 160 staff
 Reflection at end 2016
 Look and feel of rooms
 Assessments driving course
 Teaching/timing
 MindLab Post-Grad Certificate
 Existing school structure
 Flipped learning
 Student written internals
 More emphasis on group work
 Class work self paced
 Combined y9 and 10 classes
 CoreEd Modern Assessment course
 What assessment issues are we currently grappling with

Pre 2017
 Move to context based questions has increased
2017
literacy requirements (not just bare skills)  Flipped
 Focus on number of credits achieved (rather  Student written internal assessment
than deeper understanding) tasks (option)
 Too many topics within courses (insurance)  Variability of externals (esp L1)
 Excellence difficult (key words vs extended  Internal moderation
abstract thinking)
 Interruptions stressful

2018 Pāngarau Waenganui

Moving away from Level 1 assessment Cater for Numeracy
New skills to write own tasks Marking of individual tasks
Combining standards within assessment tasks Formative assessment
Range of concurrent standards (challenges) Format of evidence
Learning for understanding
 How do we partner with parents/whānau to share information?
Existing 2018
 Welcome emails Pāngarau Waenganui
 Report evenings (5 minute “speed dating”)
 A minimum of one Kamar comment per term – Information evenings – over 200 attendees
usually on an assessment result Student ePortfolios
 Attitude to Learning grades – Behaviour, Academic mentoring - termly
Effort, Completion of work, Readiness to Discussion over A2L grades
Learn Videos open for whānau to view
 Occasional message (usually when something
has gone wrong)
 Assessment results on Parent Portal
 Year 9 & 10 Learning Conversations twice a
year

 Reporting summative so only find out when

student has “failed”
How do we partner with parents/whānau to share information?

GOOGLE slides template Students make own copy

Share with parents/whānau and teacher “One stop shop” for students and whānau
Change to teacher links page, link to mtgs, ass skills sheet

GOOGLE slides template Students make own copy

Share with parents/whānau and teacher “One stop shop” for students and whānau
 What do you enjoy about this course?

• The flexibility - I can fit my maths assessment into weeks which I don’t have other assessments which helps
me and I can chose which Standards to do based on what I’m interested in and what will be useful in the
future. I also like that we have the opportunity to do Level 2 and challenge ourselves.
• Freedom/ Independence (overwhelming top answer)
• Going at your own pace I.e. not being 'left behind' so to speak
• I can take my time learning and I don’t feel rushed to finish something I’m not even confident with
• That you can choose when you want to assess and when you want to assess it
• That it is independent learning (driven by ourselves)
• I like how everything is set up so I know exactly how much more I have to learn for the topic
• vidoes much better than being taught in class, writing questions also much better
• Can replay the videos
• Choosing when you want to do the assessments because it is less stressful when you have things due in other
subjects you can fit maths ones in around it
• The freedom to chose what I want to do and that I can go at my own pace. I like how I can do level two maths
over two years.
• I can do what I want, when I want to do it. As long as I finish
 What do you find difficult about this course?

• Staying on task

• Motivation

• Time management

• Making sure I am not taking too long to complete the work for an internal

• Keeping my E-Portfolio up to date!

• was hard to write a question at first with not much help as we havent done that before

• Having limited time for test (NOT DIFFERENT TO OLD COURSE)

What improvements would you like to make to this course?
• more teaching and less learning of our own
• Set approximate timeframes for all the standards
• Have written guides as well as the videos
• I would like the old system back
• More mixture between online and offline work
• More videos with examples
• Improve the quality of the online videos
• More encouragement for student to work through the content and sit the assessments as soon as possible.
• Maybe more teachers?
• Have a few more guidelines
• to myself: I should manage my time properly
• Have more teacher teaching, less self directed work, less decisions
• upload more videos faster please
• That all of the resources are on the website so we can do any standard or a mixture at any time.
• Maybe place deadlines on the assessments and make sure the teachers are actively involved with the
students learning, maybe run little sessions on how to approach each assessment and it would be nice to
have a session dedicated to teaching us how to use the very expensive graphics calculator, no one knows
how to fully utilise it and it would be super useful to learn the full capacity of the calculator.
 2018 teachers comments

No whole class teaching. Marking much harder. Students still slack off. Still hard to motivate students.
Videos not yet as good quality as we would like.

The main challenges are:

• keeping track of where each student is up to and what they are meant to be working on
• dealing with students who are not organised or self motivated and keeping them on track
• getting to know the really quiet students who never ask for help
• managing the paperwork, when you have multiple classes of students sitting a wide variety of
standards.

Find hard:
• managing the classroom with lots of needs (especially when they all assess near the same time so
making sure I've checked all their work).
• those students that are unmotivated and do nothing
• making the videos ha ha (but I do plan to get better at them... next time it will be awesome! Promise!)
• ensuring I know the content so can help them
 2018 teachers comments

Calm atmosphere. No whole class teaching. Talk to students when they are ready. Students learn when
they are ready. Student are getting good grades. Better than what they would have had. Videos great to
rely on.

Some students are very slow starters, but at least they haven’t failed anything.

I get to use my lesson actually spending time assisting students. I know my students far better as a result.
Students who have missed school (for genuine reasons or not) don't have to miss out. Overall I find the
vibe in the classroom more positive and more on task than in a traditional class. Most students are really
enjoying the flexibility.

Like - students working at their own pace (especially allowing those bright students to take-off and work at
their ability)
- ability for one-on-one assistance
- relationship building that this system encourages
- choice for students
- time to spend with lower end students
 2018 teachers comments

I think it is particularly good for our Year 11 students as they are essentially doing Level 2 Maths over 2
years, which means they are not rushing through it and have time to get a deeper understanding of the
work. I love the fact that many students are achieving success because they are allowed to sit the
assessment when they feel ready, rather than on a particular date.
It is a very different style of teaching, but I really enjoy the one on one times that I have with each student.
Classes can be very busy, but I find that there is less behaviour management needed than in the past. Most
students are focused and engaged.

When they ask for help it is a very focussed question which can be quickly addressed.

I love it, seeing both the top and bottom students in the same class and being a able to help each other.
Knowing my students better and exactly where each one is at and what they need to work on, so being
able to tailor what they are doing to them. I also love getting to talk to every student each lesson.
 Senior Maths classes pre 2018

Year 11 MATH MAST NUMS

Year 12 MATH MAST

Year 13 MCAL STAT MAST

y12 Maths classes – L2 Trigonometry
 Senior Maths classes 2018

NUMS

402 Year 11
12MMAT 660

341
Year 12

Year 13 MCAL STAT MAST

y12 Maths 2016/17, Pāngarau Waenganui 2018 – L2 Trigonometry
y12 Maths 2016/17, Pāngarau Waenganui 2018
L2 Trigonometry
y12 Maths 2016/17, Pāngarau Waenganui 2018
L2 Trigonometry
 Present Developments
Far more contact time with students Student developed rubrics
Teacher feedback re “knowing” their Mastery tasks – formative
students Build on interclass movements
6 timetable lines with 4 classes in each > More tutorials across classes
flexibility Better support of struggling/disengaged
More than half y11 doing L2 students
Contexts of assessments – Lorax > Rogue Support more project style challenges
Planets Extend into y9/10
Teacher videos Extend into y13
Light board Investigate cross-curricular