"Teach practice review - the lesson type research has shown the least impact in student learning. I can understand why as the planning component of the numeracy project was ridiculous."
I felt that teachers were basically planning for up to three different maths lessons every day - which should involve considering the learning outcomes. Most plans I have seen, including the plans from NZ Maths are generic plans based on numeracy stages not the actual learning needs of the students. Most are planning for doing and not planning for learning. Some schools have had unit plans but most appeared to be daily planning from a long term coverage plan and generally stated what the students would be doing ie the activity and not what the expected outcome from a lesson or series of lesson would be. Few plans contained reflective comments. All changed after I had been working with them - one lesson plan differentiated with a range of lesson types and a range of grouping dependent on the learning.and the general comments were how much easier the planning became.
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