Wednesday 26 September 2018

Term 3 NCEA L1 maths data



This year I had an opportunity to teach two NCEA L1 classes, 1104MAT and 1105MAT. This means that I was able to transfer good practices from one class to the other and also be aware of pitfalls/shortcomings for each standard and address them immediately as opposed to waiting the following year with a new class. If a resource worked well in one class then I was fairly confident that it would work well in the other. Both classes followed the same courses with similar teaching and learning strategies and subject-specific literacy strategies; 1105MAT generally struggled with the key competency "managing self" and this is evident in their academic progress with 70% of Maori learners still on 0 credits compared to 0% of Maori learners still on 0 credits in 1104MAT.

The table below shows achievement in my 2 classes (1104MAT and 1105MAT) and the other 3 NCEA L1 maths classes combined. This is the first year that NCEA L1 maths students were not streamed so a great deal of conferencing lessons and differentiation was done.

All Maori learners in 1104MAT arrived at the college in year 9 and were achieving consistently at curriculum L4 compared to Maori learners in 1105MAT who arrived from years 9 to y11 and whose achievement ranged from curriculum L2 - L4.


Term 3 Credits1104MAT1105MATother 3 classes
0 credits (Maori)0%70%14%
1 std away from Numeracy (Maori)0%0%14%
Numeracy (Maori)100%30%59%
Numeracy (Whole class)69%43%56%
Numeracy cross curricula (Whole class)69%48%73%

Tuesday 4 September 2018

Sharing best practice

My Inquiry in under 60 seconds was shared with teachers in my department today and they were encouraged to share best practice/their inquiry so that pockets of excellence can be spread throughout the department. I look forward to being inspired by their videos.

Monday 3 September 2018

Reasons for absence/lateness

My students have been encouraged to manage their learning/action and take responsibility. These are a few of the emails/text messages that I have received:



I'm very sorry for the past absences during this week and the week before. I'm just always tired and seem to sleep through my alarm lol, you will see a change the rest of the week!. 


I’m going to be late today because I missed my bus to the train station

Ms im not coming school i have a sore throat

Morning Miss
I'm going to be late today, I'll probably come in at around 11, maybe later. If you want me 
to explain further, just pull me up in tutor tomorrow. Have a good day

I will be at stars mentoring this morning 

Hi, miss, I'm with the social worker. See you tomorrow

I’ll be late today due to transport 

hi miss, will be late to tutor and p1 due to family reasons

Good morning, I will not be at school for tutor this morning, I slept in, and getting to school will be an 
adventure, with the buses and trains that is. I'm sorry for being late

I will be absent for the day due to a loss in the family, I will be back as of tomorrow, need just today 
to get my mind clear

"Student's Name" may be away today, or half day.  He was asleep when I left for work this morining, 
but had been complaining of a headache since yesterday so I let him sleep 
He was thinking he might still go late? but I told him to stay if he wakes with headache. 

Morning Noelene,
"Student's Name" is home this morning unwell, Ill let you know when he gets up if he does 
come in to school. Thanks
Morning, I will be late today. I got in the wrong train at the train station.


I have  a shoulder injury and will not be at school.

Mid term 3 analysis




In 1105MAT, Maori on 0 credits (55%) is much higher compared to Non Maori on 0 credits (20%). 
Maori with L1 Numeracy (27%) is slightly higher than non-Maori with L1 Numeracy (20%).

We still have a way to go if we wish to meet our school goal of 80% Maori learners achieving NCEA L1 Numeracy this year. We are now into the "catch-up" phase of our programme where all assessment deadlines that were missed throughout the year, are now being revisited. We are having to review our 
-expectations for success
-literacy strategies and
-teaching and learning strategies
before we can make any headway.

This "catch-up" session is motivating a few learners to work with new deadlines.






100% Maori in 1104MAT have L1 Numeracy which is much higher compared to 33% non-Maori. These learners have surpassed the school goal of 80% achieving NCEA L1 Numeracy.