Goals+2015


 * My Goals 2015 **
 * For progress/discussions of Goals refer to Reflective practice write ups especially T4 **
 * 1. Literacy **
 * Writing: **
 * To raise the standard of Writing within Room 1 so that 85% of children are achieving at or above National Standards in Writing.**
 * I will do this with a range of methods, Interactive whiteboard, spelling and phonics, Modelling and 1 to 1 assistance.**
 * I also will incorporate ides from other educators such as Dave Burgess**


 * 2. Literacy **
 * Reading **** : **
 * To raise the standard of Reading within Room 1 so that 80% of children are achieving at or above National Standards in Reading.**
 * I will do this with a range of methods, Class, group and individual reading programmes, spelling and phonics.**
 * Teacher aide and reinforcement for Students that need it.**
 * Home / school connections with whanau( notebook system and phone-call or face to face)and nightly books for the Students to take home and read to whanau**
 * A Literacy 'soaked' classroom. Lots of words captions around the room. Lots of reading to, with and by students**.


 * 3. Numeracy **
 * Lead Teacher: **
 * As Lead teacher of Maths I will lead the Maths programmes in the school and aim to increase the National Standards levels of the tamariki in this area to the Charter target of 85%.**
 * I will do this by:**
 * Setting targets with the staff.**
 * Providing PLD where needed**
 * Continuing with the Numeracy wiki thread which provides online assistance with websites, ideas, planning, PDL and feedback/feed forward.**
 * Developing an action plan**
 * Indicators will be an increase in Maths progress results at the end of Term 4 in classroom assessment data statistics**


 * 4. Inquiry **
 * Develop Inquiry Learning with a new group of children (many in my class have just started school).**
 * This is over a year period and will be assessed with Solo Taxonomy.**
 * The inquiry process will be introduced and guided. Learning buddies could be used to help children with this development.**


 * 5. PB4L **
 * Develop a Well-being for Success programme**
 * Both within my class and with other tamariki in the school.**
 * Children will use Restorative conversations, Community circles and positive behaviours towards others as indicators of this.**


 * 6. Personal **
 * To continue my learning journey in developing proficiency in using technology both personally and in the classroom.**
 * This will include ipads, apple computer, wikis, blog, websites, any new equipment introduced and will relate to both programmes and equipment.**
 * To continue to connect with educators around the world on Twitter to develop new ideas and extend my Students learning in all areas holistically.**
 * Eg Go to Australia ( July holidays) to attend conference on "Teach like a Pirate." ( Dave Burgess-American teacher, motivator, author) His books have great ideas on motivating Students and accelerating progress. This has helped increase my students writing progress last year ( 2014)**
 * I wish to continue this and extend into other areas of the curriculum and holistically.**
 * Other educators I am connected to on Twitter include Rich Allen(USA) ( attended his conference on "Fun in the classroom and memory retention" last year in Hastings). Brett Salakas ( Australian founder of #AussieED chat- an Education chat that I go on every Sunday for an hour with educators from all around the world . Examples of topics are : Literacy in the classroom; Coding in the curriculum; Teacher motivation and ideas etc). Also Craig Kemp a NZ Teacher leading ICT in a huge school in Singapore, speaker at uLearn 14 and founder of another educational chat that I go on #what is school.Also Don Wettrick from USA who's book Pure Genius encourages independence and Inquiry learning in Students. As well as Professor Mark Weston also from USA who's book The Learning Edge talks about integrating ICT into the curriculum whilst still maintaining the curriculum and proficient teaching**


 * 7. Wikis **
 * To monitor school wikis both teacher and student so that they are kept up to date.**
 * To assist, where needed, if teachers want help with content, format or adding items to their own or the children in their classes wikis**.