Integrated learning - Year 9 Food Tech and Business Studies

One of the units that year 9 Business Studies do is to carry out and review a business activity with guidance. This involves working in a team, choosing a product to make, writing a business plan, making the product and selling it.

After discussions with the class and finding out they were also doing Food Tech, we decided to speak to Mrs Tuipulotu who was taking them for Tech if we could work together so that what they learnt to make in food tech could be made and sold as part of their business activity.

The product they would make would be determined by what they were learning to cook or bake in Food Tech, they would make this product during Food Tech and then sell it at lunch time.

Students will carry out some of the planning in Food Tech - for instance, the planning for the production of the product - getting the recipe and ingredients together -  and then they can carry out their research of prices to find their costs and work out their profits during Business.

Intervention for priority students:

It is now week 7 of Term 2 and I have been working with some of my students needing support to help them achieve more. Amongst the students I am working with is one of my "targeted" priority students.

Although all students are priorities, we have to focus on two students who are not achieving in our classes and provide the support they need to achieve.

My two targeted students are from my year 11 Maths. One of them has been away from school, and am hoping he will be back soon. The other priority student is working well, I am regularly checking with him and spending more time explaining work to him on a one to one basis.

I have found that using questionings have been a very good tool in stimulating his mathematical thinking and getting him to explain what he sees and what it means. This has also been useful means of checking if he has understood the work.

Supporting my priority student this way has enabled him to get a better understanding of the work which allowed him to successfully complete his assessment.

Visible Learning and Teaching Framework (VTAL) Toolkit

I attended a VTAL Toolkit by Ms Anderson after school yesterday (9th March) in T2.
She used her own class site  and what she does with her classes to demonstrate VTAL.
It was a good session.

How to create a Blogg session by Fn

We are learning how to create a blogg, and the session is with Ms Fergusson the Google Guru at Tamaki College.  This is something new for me, so am going to give this a shot.

How to insert a video:
Open youtube, click on a video
Find the share arrow and choose the embed option and it will give yo the HTML you copy
go back to your blog and click on HTML and paste the HTML you got from youtube and you have the youtube video on thy blogg!!