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Goal 2 Literacy and Numeracy That 80% of Year 9 & 10 students are reading at or above the expected Curriculum Level. That 70% of Year 9 & 10 students are writing at or above the expected Curriculum Level. That 70% of Year 9 & 10 students are achieving in Mathematics at or above the expected Curriculum Level. That 90% of Year 11 students will achieve NCEA Literacy. That 80% of Year 11 students will achieve NCEA Numeracy. To promote the School goal the Tech department invited Marc to facilitate the inclination of literacy as an aspect of teaching Technology subject. Focussing on writing the function of verbs in school writing and also the "mood words" which really help the teacher and students especially in my Graphics class writing blog as part of Learn, Create, Share program. Lastly to follow up the one on one approach with Marc so that I can update my writing model that helps the student achievements.

My reflection of Term 1 in facilitating of students learn, create, share is working in progress. Because the learners still to improve their writing skills especially in Graphics and Technology. Explaining the commands and symbols help them to communicate the proper terminology in an actual job or career industry. Describing what they made is a basic requirement in presenting a particular product design in Technology class. Sample on ‘Share’ Opportunities in Term 1 for students taking DVC Share to be undertaken using the following: Year 7-9 Blogs Andrew@ptengland Trendyblog  Vony blog Year 10 Google+ 10TSi

Year 9 Graphics students start designing a logo inspired by their names using google drawing as a tool. They begin sketching the initial letters of their names. The students are very engaged trying to create something that will best represent their identity. After this, they will be introduced to designing logos that will represent their favourite product or brands. This time, they will be encouraged to use symbols that can easily put labels or trademarks to specific products they wish to promote.

Practising Teacher Criteria Introduction Overarching statements Criteria and key indicators Professional relationships and professional values Professional knowledge in practice Introduction The Practising Teacher Criteria describe the criteria for quality teaching that are to be met by all fully certificated teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Practising Teacher Criteria recognise that teaching is a highly complex activity, drawing on repertoires of knowledge, practices, professional attributes and values to facilitate academic, social and cultural learning for diverse education settings. The criteria and indicators should be viewed as interdependent and overlapping. Overarching statements Teachers play a critical role in enabling the educational achievement of all ākonga/ learners 1 . The Treaty of Waitangi extends equal status and rights to Māori and Pākehā. This places a particular responsibility on all teachers in Aotearoa New Zealand to promote equita

Inquiry 2018 Achievement Challenge Improve the achievement of students with additional needs in the learning areas of English /key competency using language symbols and texts Inquiry 2018 My inquiry for 2018 is to Improve the achievements of students (Years 7-10) in terms English proficiency through using language symbols and text in Graphics and Technology. Allow my students to use the terminology words in everyday basis or write them in google docs. Thanks to Karen Ferguson for the graphic design. Manaiakalani CoL : Teaching Inquiry Framework

  I started using the task list last year to track my students learning. Since the beginning of this year I used it to all my classes as tool of monitoring individual students progress. Using color coding it help the students to motivate in each given tasks. I broadcast to the whole class so students aware of what they are working. I found it useful in terms of follow up students and guide in marking. Before I started using tracking sheet, its hard for me to find the sequence or to connect the previous work to present learning task. Now It's much easy for me to track student's progress. Student's Achievement improves compare before I started using the tracking sheet.