Tutor+Teacher

Tutor Teacher for Jo Zurcher

**RTC 1 4 5**

 * As a tutor teacher for a PRT teacher it is a requirement to keep a record of meetings between Jo and I for reference towards areas toc**
 * and content covered over the term.This will be used in connection with the registered teacher criteria as part of her accreditation.**

Connections and meetings

 * Connections will take place** **regularly, that is most mornings before school, often after school and sometimes during the day when opportunities allow.**
 * Meetings will take place once a week or when Jo has a concern or questions that she wants help with sooner rather than later.**

** Week 10 **

 * 8/7/13-12/7/13 **
 * Another busy week. Jo has worked along side Gina and Maurice. She has also completed Running Records for**
 * Reading in Room 4. The children have either generally stayed the same or gone up a level.**
 * Jo completed the running records well. I helped her with analysing the results MSV etc and self correction anaylsis.**
 * Jo is still finding the children difficult when on her own, she told me on Monday. Generally ,though, as**
 * mentioned previously,she works along side another teacher.**
 * This is her last week in Room 4 as Yvette returns next term.**

** Week 9 **

 * 1/7/13-5/7/13 **


 * Matariki week. All teachers helped support with R4 children especially Maurice and Gina.**
 * Next week Room 4 will be split between R1 and R2 for the afternoons with Maurice and Debz teacher aide**
 * supporting R2 after Interval with Numeracy.**
 * General discussions have continued.**
 * Jo is testing Reading next week in the afternoons for end of term results.**

** Week 8 **

 * 24/6/13-28/6/13 **


 * Jo is teaching .5 for the next 3 weeks. Gina will teach beside her from 9-11am and do Literacy with her - reading and writing etc.**
 * Jo will then do Numeracy and the afternoons by herself with some teacher aide help.**
 * I am unable to support her in the class room as I am teaching full time in my class.**
 * I will however continue regular meetings again with her now she will be back fulltime hours.**
 * Gina will give Jo the advantage of working beside an experienced teacher to help her develop her Literacy programme**
 * and behaviour management skills.**
 * Connections **
 * We had several discussions over the week.**
 * I talked about connecting with the children and being positive.**
 * Jo feels that the children have lost respect for her and she is finding managing the class difficult.**
 * She is working beside Gina and taking groups but is letting Gina plan.**
 * Maurice has been supporting her by taking children in the afternoon. Bridget and I have also supported her by taking children.**
 * Tania ( Principal at Mayfair) saw me at Netball today and asked when Jo would be visiting Rob.**
 * I told her that Jo may not have time as she finishes end of term and has been to Parkvale and Henry Hill.**

** Week 7 **

 * 17/6/13-21/6/13 **


 * Jo was absent on leave this week.**
 * I offered to help her with any planning etc and she said she would email me if she needed help**

** Week 6 **

 * 10/6/13-14/6/13 **
 * Connections **
 * General discussions took place during the week. Discussed any issues Jo had.**
 * Discussed Running Records, Testing and PRT visits. Rerung Mayfair and contacted Tania Bunny Principal who had talked to Rob Pratt**
 * and she gave me his email for Jo to contact him about a time that suits her to visit.**
 * Jo found the visit to Anne at Henry Hill very rewarding and got some ideas to implement in the classroom.**
 * She is still having issues with behaviour and finding it a difficult class.**
 * She has a more positive approach and is becoming more flexible and confident in the way she is teaching.**
 * Friday she visited 3 classes at Parkvale, 2 first years and a New Entrant teacher. She enjoyed it but found it**
 * a bit rushed so wants to revisit. One first year is visiting her next Wednesday.**
 * Maurice has set up a release day for me to observe and do an assessment on Jo Week 8 25/6.(am)**
 * In the afternoon she wants to visit Mayfair.**

** Week 5 **

 * 4/6/13-7/6/13 **
 * Connections **
 * General discussions took place during the week. Discussed any issues Jo had.**
 * Checked with Jan Kale about reading programmes and thanked her for her support.**
 * Rung Mayfair about Jo making contact with the 1st year Rob Pratt and the 2nd year Emma Larwood ( an ex student of mine)**
 * Jo has yet to hear back from Parkvale. She will ring Mark Gifkins Parkvale and Mayfair next week.**
 * Maurice supported her by taking 3 behaviour children into his class.**
 * She felt that that made a huge difference to the behaviour and dynamics of the classroom.**
 * Jo feels that she is coming to grips with the reading and maths and the planning.**
 * She has yet to set up her reflections on wiki.**
 * We had no meeting Friday as Jo was visiting her Aunt Anne Roberts at Henry Hill who teaches the same year group as she does**
 * to view resources and effective reading and maths programmes from an experienced teacher.**

** Week 4 **

 * 27/5/13-31/5/13 **
 * Connections **
 * General discussions took place during the week.**
 * Showed Jo where resources were. Discussed how her day was going and support she needed.**
 * Discussed daily programme and changes she is making to accommodate the varying needs of the children.**
 * Also discussed visiting first year teachers at Parkvale. Jo emailed Mark Gifkins after meeting him in our school staffroom the previous week.**
 * He has emailed back and given her contact details to his first year teachers so that they can contact Jo for a visit.**
 * Also discussed children's behaviour and strategies in place. Suggested putting more children on the bench and in detention for a while.**
 * Adhere to the behaviour programme and follow it through.**

**Meeting**
 * Further discussed reading and maths and inquiry. Jo feels she is understanding Inquiry and has enjoyed the curriculum meetings on Inquiry. **
 * Jan Kale RTLB is helping Jo with the low reading group. Jo has also emailed her old lecturer Hilton Ayrey and is getting some guidelines **
 * on reading from what she had learnt in training. Hilton has a specialised reading programme which Jo is keen to give a try. (Sharp Reading) **
 * Also discussed phonics and briefly went over teacher write and wikis **
 * Suggested Jo put reflections related to RTCs on wiki, which she had planned to do already. **
 * She has been invited to my wiki so suggested she get a copy of RTCs and Teacher pedagogy from my home page and put it on her wiki. **
 * I also gave her a hard copy to look at and we discussed it in relation to curriculum areas, professional development and activities. **
 * Also looked through internet booklet on Mentoring teachers and first year teacher requirements so that she knew some of the things **
 * that she was expected to cover this term. **
 * I will ring Mayfair to set up other first year teacher observations at another school for Jo. **
 * Jo is meeting with her Aunt ( Anne Roberts) from Henry Hill who teaches at the same level, this weekend, **
 * to discuss her resources and set a date for Jo to observe her. **

** Week 3 **
**Meeting**
 * 20/5/13-24/5/13 **
 * Connections **
 * General discussions took place during the week. Have deferred Maths observation. Concentrating on daily programme and behaviour.**
 * Talked about daily timetable. Discussed and gave Jo guides for levelling of children at year levels and ages in Writing, Reading and Maths. She will be able to use the Reading one especially in conjunction with book levels for her reading groups as well. Also talked about behaviour of the children, work levels of some of the children eg Noah and Jo visiting 1st year teachers at Parkvale and Mayfair. She met Mark Giftkins today and will ring to set up a time in the near future. She wants me to contact Mayfair initially after Parkvale. I am happy to do this and even know a 2nd year teacher she could also visit to discuss what needed to be done in the first year, what was helpful and what did she find that she needed most etc. **

** Week 2 **
**Meeting**
 * 13 **** /5/13-17/5/13 **
 * Connections **
 * These continue daily as we discuss Jo's programme, behaviour issues and successes, resources and questions. **
 * Jo was also part of a Curriculum meeting on Mathematics where we discussed some professional development, websites to go on and **
 * strengths and weaknesses. Jo wants me to observe and video her in Maths time. **
 * We did not have a formal meeting this week as Jo wanted time to sort resources and files and planning and to come up with questions to ask. **
 * We did have a quick meeting Tuesday after school to discuss behaviour of some children. Jo is finding children are 'bouncing off' each other. We discussed strategies and ideas. **
 * She has made some very good progress with some children. **
 * I suggested that she send children to me to give them a break from the other person they are 'bouncing off' if that helps. She sent I to me the next day. We discussed that she may need to use detention as she stops at bench.The children need to know that there are consequences for their continuing inappropriate behaviour. **
 * We briefly discussed reading and maths planning and routines, inquiry, how she was coping with the diverse needs of the children and the number of visitors she has to the room and how this effects the children.**

** Week 1 **
**Meeting**
 * 6/5/13-10/5/13 **
 * Connections **
 * Areas covered were planning, routines, what resources Jo had and how things were going.I offered Jo support with children as well. **
 * She brought a boy to me Thursday and we successfully addressed the problems. He is now happily relating to Jo and his behaviour **
 * and attitude has improved a lot over the last 2 days. **
 * I also ordered and received books for Jo from MOE so she could have her own copies of NUMPa, National Standards- Reading and **
 * Writing and Mathematics, as well as achievment objectives and the NZ curriculum document. I also accessed a spare copy of **
 * Literacy Progressions for her from the resource room. **
 * Jo asked a lot of questions and shared concerns and positives. She knows that all the staff are here to support her and she can **
 * just ask for any help she needs or share any worries. **
 * We discussed successes and concerns that Jo had had over the week, following up on learning conversations that we had had daily **
 * such as behaviour of children and reading groups. I showed Jo my planning term, daily, weekly, unit etc, examples of WALTS and success criteria **
 * as well as planning templates. She asked me to send her a copy of my term literacy and my maths measurement unit. **
 * We discussed up and coming testing. She has 2 running records to do, due in 3 weeks. I offered to model a running record for her **
 * and if she feels confident she can try the next one or I will model that also and she can practise with other children. **
 * I briefly showed her how we got the end of term testing results and showed her copies of BURT reading and spelling tests as well as **
 * a running record sheet, a NUMPa sheet and a writing rubric. **
 * I have since photocopied blank examples of these and the testing standards eg what levels children should be at, at certain ages. **
 * I will go over these in more depth at a future meeting so that Jo has an understanding of the testing procedures. **
 * I will model these for her near the end of term when we are testing the children, except for the running record which I will do in three weeks. **
 * We also talked about her reading, writing, maths and inquiry programmes. She feels that she is still coming to terms with it all so we **
 * deferred further discussion until she has had time to put ideas and programmes and planning into place. **
 * Jo felt the PRT day release on Friday was very helpful in allowing her to sort resources and plan for curriculum areas. **
 * I will continue to see Jo daily and have asked her to come to me with any questions or concerns. She said that she is happy to do that. **