There are so many benefits of coming out and doing the year-long prac.
You're seeing a school from before the students arrive there.
You're interacting with the peers.
You're meeting the people. You're meeting your colleagues.
You're participating in outside school activities,
like the discos, and the sports carnivals.
And you're basically getting to know the schooling community,
which helps with prac.
And, yeah, you get to see the other side of teaching.
It's not all about implementing the programs.
There's dealing with student behaviours and all kinds of things.
But, yeah, the year-long internship is very beneficial.
We are doing some math rotations today.
OK, we've got the laptops to use.
We're going to have two stations that have laptops.
Hands up who gets to the section on Beat the Clock in the E column,
and has a bit of trouble with it?
I know some people have mastered it.
Some people look at it and get a bit scared from it.
We had our ones, tens, hundreds and thousands.
And I had 28 times 100.
28. Where would that number go in here? Just the number 28.
Just 28. Ellie?
Without using the sum yet. Just that number.
If you just saw 28, where would you place the 2 and the 8?
ELLIE: Two in the thousands, eight in the hundreds.
No, without doing the sum.
So if you just saw that number, where would the eight go?
ELLIE: The eight would go in the ones,
and the two would go in the tens.
And the two would go in the tens.
When we multiply it by 10 or, in this case, 100,
we move them...two spaces.
Because there are two zeros.
So the two would come over here, the eight would go here.
And these two, we would just carry down our zeros.
-Does everybody understand? -ALL: Yes.
Yes. Alright.
So we're going to have plenty of activities today
to practise this new skill.
Today's lesson was based on encouraging the students
to use their activities and skills in developing their multiplication
of larger sums with...
Sums with, like, zeros in them.
So 100 times 20 or 2 times 200,
or going up in those larger ones.
And basically allowing the students to see
that they can just carry the zeros over,
and the sums don't then look so daunting.
So it had been...
We'd been working on place value in the classroom,
and we'd been using a resource... a game called Beat the Clock,
where the students are able to work through columns of multiplication.
And it's specified, so it's six times tables, three times tables.
And finally there's an E column which has those larger ones.
Today on one set of laptops,
you will be going through these four here as practice.
OK, you're just practising the skill.
You're going to be using your own individual Studyladder account,
and just practising.
Students have their own individual logins,
and the teacher also has their own individual login as well.
And the students go through, they do their things.
They do the activities, and often there are assessment pieces on there.
So the students can do these assessment pieces.
Then later on, after the lesson...
So you've been monitoring, you can assist the students going through.
Later, after the lesson, after school,
you can log in on your teacher login,
and you're able to see the students' results.
So there's an assessment site, and it will come up,
it will show the students' names, it will show their results,
and it will show the task.
You set the tasks, you can swap them around,
you can do different abilities, and different students that hop on
will see different ones on their individual logins.
So Studyladder is really good for that.
And, yeah, it frees you up with being able to assist the students, monitor,
and not having to be pen-and-paper assessing at the same time.
Remember, the first group on the older laptops
are doing this row here only.
Just practising through the skills.
If you get time and you've done them all, go back and practise again,
because your next rotation is going to be this one here
where you only do that, and then you do your test.
Choosing digital resources is always something that's quite easy.
It is something that students are engaged in.
They really are...they enjoy using digital resources,
so integrating the laptops and things like the SMART Board
always have students' interest straightaway.
Using the SMART Board,
the students are able to come up, play the games, press the buttons.
It's all interactive. They're doing something.
They're not listening to the teacher talk.
They're able to do it themselves.