Professional+Learning



Education Goals

1. **Literacy Goal:** To provide opportunities for staff within the 9-12 Learning Team to realise our team goal. To improve the literacy skills of students within the 9-12 Learning Sub School by providing opportunities to write with greater depth, detail and appropriately design answers that reflect the genre that is required in each domain.

Work with Katherine Holt the literacy coach for the college in year 7 maths.

//May: Continuing to work with Katherine Holt in year 7 maths. I have more specific goals and trialing a new appoach to lessons. Have seen benefits already in commencing classes with students forming a horse shoe around the electronic whiteboard. Trialing the effective teaching model. Concentrating on the beginning of my lessons and providing a hook for students to get them interested in a topic. Also providing reasons why we are learning the new material to provide purpose. Its definitely slow and steady progress as I am trying to unlearn some habits.

August: Continuing to use the effective teaching model and introducing shared reading and vocabulary into my teaching. My approach has changed dramatically over this year with Katherine's coaching. I am far more conscious of students needs in their learning.

.//

In Mathematics: To make sure that new language in every topic is defined and explained to students. Provide opportunities for students to communicate anwers both verbally and in written form.

//August: introducing vocabulary into maths lesson with the use of glossary's. Investigating the role of math's dictionarys and how they can be effective in the classroom.//

2. **ICT Goal:** Fully intergrate the NSpire CAS calculator into year 11 Math Methods class.

//May: Has probably not been given my full attention. Students are more familiar with the calculator but are still only using it as a calculator rather than a tool to use for deeper investigations.//

3. **Personal Learning Goal:** To provide opportunities for abled students to extend their capabilities in and outside the classroom. - Extra VCE General Mathematics class offered to year 10 students - Work with teachers to develop programs to extend students eg year 9 maths - Set aside Professional Learning Team meetings - Develop a Spelling Bee activity within the sub school.

//May: After school classes are working very well. Students are very keen and willing to put in the extra work. Still need set aside PLT meetings to provide programs to extend students. Investigating Blooms Taxonomy as a way of doing this. Professional Development in June for the Virtual Learning Network. Providing Study Skills Information to year 10 students.//