Reflective+Practice

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** Personal Highlights/ Reflections/ Successes. **

 * I have developed and continued to develop positive relationships with students and their whanau,including new children and whanau coming into R2 this term.
 * I am still developing my skills in technology and have kept up to date with my class children's wikis and my personal RTC wiki.I also have continued and extended the class twitter that I started end of 2013.I regularly twitter events and learning that the tamariki have been involved in. I have also updated my class webpage on the Riverslea School's web site and my Miharo's Blog.
 * The range of fun activities and learning that the children have been involved in this term.
 * Performing my roles and responsibilities well. Eg Duffy Co-ordinator ( co-ordinating the Duffy Books, the Preschool programme, Grandparents Reading, continuing contact with Rotary of Havelock North and Books in Homes in Auckland). I have continued my role as Lead Teacher of Mathematics. I have been available for assistance and have also updated the Numeracy wiki on Riverslea wiki regularly with resources, ideas, PLD and planning as well as links to many valuable sites. I have provided resources from PLD sessions I have attended. ( I have more to provide when I lead a Curriculum Maths session at Staff meeting early Term 2). I have continued my roles as Preschool liaison, NZEI rep and Staff BOT representative, including EEO officer. I have been available for guidance on Wikis but need to wait until all teachers have set up their children's wiki pages to further progress in this area. ( I am available for help in this area also).
 * Contact with whanau/ parents over their children's learning eg through the wiki pages.One parent from last year still looks at his daughter's page and shows whanau even though she is no longer in my room.
 * ( I will therefore not delete any pages of children moving out of my room for at least a year).

** Student Highlights/ Successes **

 * Sports such as the school Swimming sports, Hakinakina Swimming sports and the Bike Track activities.
 * Duffy Books, Role Model Assembly, Grandparent's Reading
 * Whanau Barbecue
 * Preschool Visits
 * Learning new apps on the ipads
 * Matau Crouch (new principal) and Matua Pōhatu (new teacher)
 * Progress in Reading, Mathematics and Story-writing.

** Personal Challenges **

 * The disruptive behaviour of 3 of the children in my class
 * The new behaviour management scheme in the school
 * Keeping up to date with new ICT and changes.

** Student Challenges **

 * Some children have found the behaviour of a few children disrupting and have adapted so that they ignore negative behaviour and focus on positive behaviour and rewards
 * Learning new skills eg literacy, numeracy and on the ipads.These have mainly been positive challenges but the children have needed lots of support.
 * Responding positively to changes in class programmes to help all children be flexible and be able to learn in different ways.

** Goals 2014 **
I have made progress with the children's writing in Room 2 **( refer Writing T1 wiki thread under RTC thread)**.I will continue to enhance the whiteboard writing practice method and introduce more resources to help children locate or spell their own words in Term 2
 * **Literacy**

I have continued my role as Lead Teacher of Mathematics. I have been available for assistance and have also updated the Numeracy wiki on Riverslea wiki regularly with resources, ideas, PLD and planning as well as links to many valuable sites. I have provided resources from PLD sessions I have attended. ( I have more to provide when I lead a Curriculum Maths session at Staff meeting early Term 2). I plan to set up an Action plan based on the Charter target now that we will be streaming Maths throughout the classes from Term 2 onwards.
 * ** Numeracy **

I have introduced the new children to the process of Inquiry and had a successful Inquiry based on Children's Goals **( refer Inquiry T1 wiki thread under RTC thread)**.
 * ** Inquiry **

> I have incorporated PB4L in my classroom with restorative conversations and community circles being an integral part. I am still finding the change to the behaviour management programme challenging for disruptive children as I don't think, in my opinion, that they feel that they have any consequences for their actions.This is a new programme so will have a settling in period while children and teachers adapt. > I have kept up to date with my personal RTC wiki ( lbennettteacherregistration), the Numeracy thread on the Riverslea wiki, the children's wikis, the website R2 page, Miharo's blog and the class twitter. For PLD I have investigated new apps for children's learning and have incorporated some of these into the classroom.I still need to reinforce and extend these as many children are at beginning stages of Literacy and need 1 to 1 help.
 * ** PB4L **
 * ** Personal **

> I have been available for guidance on Wikis but need to wait until all teachers have set up their children's wiki pages to further progress in this area. ( I am available for help in this area also).I will also assist with RTC wikis if needed. >
 * ** Wikis **