Mentor+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 areastoc**
 * 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 3 **

 * 20/5/13-24/5/13 **
 * Connections **
 * General discussions took place during the week. Have deferred Maths observation. Concentrating on daily programme and behaviour.**

**Meeting**
 * 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 **

 * 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. **

**Meeting**
 * 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. **