Dr Ange's Blog

In this blog post I wanted to share my thoughts on Formative Assessment.

Formative Assessment is literally a ‘golden ticket’ for teachers.

It has been proven to be one of the most effective ways to improve student achievement.

Research has shown that through using formative assessment we can incr...

In my past two blog posts I have been sharing my thoughts on the selection and administration of maths assessments.

As a Numeracy Leader, you may find yourself in the important position of having to lead/facilitate these discussions with your school leaders and teachers.

Sometimes there can be a f...

In my previous blog I wrote about the importance of making informed choices about maths assessments you use at your school.

This is all part of the important process to develop the assessment literacy of teachers.

In this post, I want to look at the ‘how’ of administering the assessments, because ...

In this blog post I wanted to share some thoughts about the importance of Numeracy Leaders and teachers developing assessment literacy skills.

The guru is assessment literacy is James W Popham and he has written numerous papers and books on this topic.

He describes assessment literacy as the singl...

This week I wanted to talk about Numeracy Professional Development. 

I think I am quite well qualified to talk about this because one of my jobs is to provide Professional Development to teachers:)

Now, I have been to many PD's over the years and learnt something from every PD I have attended (som...

This week I wanted to share three things I really struggled with when I was in the role of Numeracy Leader.

I would love to know if you struggle with them too…

1. A lack of guidance in Numeracy Leadership: I felt like I didn’t really have anyone to ask specific Numeracy questions to, or support
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Last week I shared my wonderings around Maths Enrichment and Extension. I had some really interesting discussions around this with several of you which was great!

One of the things I gathered was that I am not alone.

There are a lot of teachers and leaders out there who have questions around this ...

This week I want to share with you a snapshot of the reading I have been doing around one aspect of this topic. Firstly, I was interested in unpacking my observation that in the extension/enrichment classes there are often more boys than girls.

This is some of the research around this...

When you ...

This week I have been speaking to a few teachers about 'Extension' or 'Enrichment' Maths Programs.

Do you run these at your school?

There were a few issues that popped up as we discussed the pros and cons of these offerings.

1. Boys vs Girls: When you offer these programs do you try to have a bala
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One of the things I learnt throughout my time as a Numeracy leader is that many teachers are very anxious about teaching Maths. This observation is reinforced every year as I work with a new batch of pre-service teachers at uni. Many of these pre-service teachers freely admit that nothing scares the...

In a previous blog I mentioned the importance of always taking into consideration the amount of time you have been allocated, before you implement change at your school. Time has a major influence on your potential impact…

BUT if you are thinking… I have invested a lot of time into my role and I am...

Whenever I visit a school, I ask to visit the ‘maths cupboard’. It is partly because the organization freak inside me wants to check out how others organize their resources, but it is mostly because I want to see how well used the cupboard is…

The truth is you can have the best resources in the wor...