Maths 'talk moves' observations

ALiM teacher was to observe each teacher throughout the school over two visits. First visit I was ill with the flu but pushed through it as I didn't want to inconvenience the teacher by postponing. The lesson went reasonably well and we discussed the lesson afterwards.

In between observations which were a few months apart, I organised a time to observe the ALiM teacher in action in her own class. This was an awesome chance for me to pick up some new tricks which I then used in my class with success.

The second observation took place and through discussion afterwards, the feedback was all positive and it was nice to hear I was doing a great job. The ALiM teacher gave me some further suggestions for me to work on. Ace!

The Talk Moves in which we had professional development as a staff was a focus of mine. I used this as part of a teacher inquiry for 2014 and my practice definitely benefitted from professional colleagues who are maths lead teachers, ALiM and overall more experienced than myself.