In response to the reflections and feedback of one of my team members, we are collaboratively picking apart the maths curriculum to create a long-term plan that works for us, and that illustrates the learning outcomes across Level 1 and Level 2 of the NZ Curriculum.
As a leader I see growing the capital of my team as important. However the 'how' to do this can at times seem difficult when everyone is at different stages of their teaching journeys and everone has diffrent levels of understanding of the curriculum. Noticing areas that need my attention as a leader is the first step.
Stefan wrote an amazing, honest reflection about the hugeness of the maths curriculum and how difficult it was to know what and how to teach it, covering all aspects. At a PLC course he was shown diffrent schools' long-term plans and compared them to our long-term plan... honestly pointing out that what we were using was not effective, especially for the beginning teachers within our team.
So.... we are taking our school LTP, taking the parts that we need to and as a team creating a plan that will work for us.
Today we started with just one aspect, probability.
We looked at the Achievement Objectives from the Curriculm, the Elaborations, NZ maths plans, thought about our own understandings and broke down the specifics of teaching probability to our junior students. Doing this collaboratively over a google meet meant we were challenging each other, questioning each other and coming to a shared understanding.
By the end of the session our brains hurt but the outcome was amazing. We all know what we will be teaching at each level, the shared language we will use and how to scafold learning to meet our students needs across the junior school.
Yay for collaboration, and a fabulous team.... so much more powerful than if one person was to write the longterm plan and give it to the team to follow as we have done in the past!
