My name's Kelly Moody. I'm a teacher at Gordonvale State High School.
Currently, I teach Year 9 maths,
and I also run an environmental program called Excelsior,
and I manage the eLearning centre in the school.
So a few different hats.
So the learning environment of my class...
I'm quite friendly with the students.
I like to greet them at the door
and get that positive relationship going with them.
When you come inside
I want you to get started on your Maths Mentals straightaway
and you have four minutes to do it from when you sit down.
Come inside and sit down quietly.
I like to manage my classroom by giving the students
lots of different activities to keep them interested
and also giving them timeframes to do everything in.
So if I say, "You've got two minutes to do this,"
it means that they don't waste time getting started.
They know they've only got a couple of minutes to do it.
Time's up. Can I get you to write your name on the top of the page?
Swap with the person next to you.
And can you mark your answers with a calculator? Thank you.
I like to start the lesson with the lesson intention.
So that lets the students know where we're going in that lesson
and what our goals are, what the focus is.
Usually, that can link to where they've been in previous lessons
and also where we're going in the future.
So they know, "This is something that we need to learn
"because in our assignment we'll need to describe a graph,
"so that's why it's our intention today."
We're going to start off with a review activity today.
So it's going to be multiple choice questions.
You can see on your desk
that you have cards with 'A', 'B' and 'C' written on them.
So I'm going to get you
to hold up the card with the correct answer on it
when you see the questions up on the screen.
So a lot of the quizzes we do in pairs
so that they can work with their friends.
But also they have more confidence
if they're talking to their friend about the answer
rather than the whole class,
so I find that I get a lot more audience involvement with that.
So we do a review activity regularly
which is just multiple choice questions, 'A', 'B' or 'C',
and they talk to the person next to them.
And three, two, one. Hold up your answer, please.
Nice and high. Nice and high so I can see it.
'B' is the correct answer. You're all right. Well done.
Now, look at the image from earlier.
Can you tell me, is that data set symmetrical or asymmetrical?
I use the paddle-pop sticks to pick people to answer questions
so that I'm not picking the same people all of the time,
and it's quite obvious
if someone's put their hand up they probably know the answer,
but realistically I want to know
does everyone in the class know the answer
or just the person putting their hand up?
So if we pick a non-volunteer I think I can get a more accurate result.
Next one. Where do you think the median would be, please, Jake?
When I initially started planning lessons like this,
on the PowerPoint and so structured,
it took a lot of time to plan the lessons.
But now that I've got the structure
and it's basically my template for every lesson,
I can just go in and change the questions or change the graphic
and it's a lot less work now.
And I'm actually finding that overall,
because I'm not having to deal with behaviour in the class
and I'm not having to reteach things
because they haven't got it the first time,
that it's actually saving me time in the long run.
The last thing we're going to finish up with today,
five minutes before the bell,
is we're going to do our closure activity.
At the end of each lesson I get them to do the 3-2-1 Go!
so that I can see whether they enjoyed the different activities
and also to see whether they have retained the information.
I want you to write down in your books -
three things I have learned today,
two things I liked about the lesson and one question that I have.
So write those down in your books.
The way I structure my lessons,
it works for me and helps me stay organised in my planning,
but I think it helps some of my students that have lower abilities
get engaged in the lesson because they know the routine.