As we're approaching the end of term 3, I'd like to share my team's innovative weekly and daily planning format, designed to make our maths program transparent to all stakeholders: teachers, relievers, students and whanau. Through collaborative efforts with my team, we've refined our approach to create engaging learning experiences that are visible, accessible, rewindable, practical and efficient. Explore our format, complete with built-in formative assessments and easily accessible resources. Our planning promotes academic growth while enhancing teacher capability and subject knowledge, nurturing student agency and strengthening connections with whanau.
The structure of the weekly and daily planning has been working well for our year 3-6 classes. Students are seen twice a week with a flow of purposeful activities to practice new concepts and maintain their maths knowledge.
Built-in assessments. Using ARBS, ixl.com (but it can be any math program, including StudyLadder, Splash Maths, etc), book tasks and Figure Me Out activities, teachers are collecting rich evidence of student progress and identifying their next steps - built-in formative assessment for learning.
This structure also allows for visible, accessible and rewindable learning. From my own experience, the students who were absent from school used this planning to continue learning and work on the same topics as the students at school. I only had to do a couple of quick workshops to support them when they returned.
Revision and review. This planning helps to review and revisit the topics when students are working independently on their own maths goals (self-reflection and teacher feedback)
Reliever-friendly. Relievers were also able to pick up this plan and continue to teach according to the weekly plan with limited learning interruptions.
Whanau feedback is also positive. Parents have commented that they know exactly what the kids are learning, and, according to some parents, this format has helped them better understand their child's math education (which was an interesting comment).
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