The aim of this task is to build a rich picture of the skills in number and of your focus children so that this knowledge informs your Focus Children’s progress meeting (week 4) and begins to inform your planning for the whole class for the final weeks of your placement.
In order to engage in participant observation with your own focus children you should arrange for someone to observe this process in order to make detailed notes and to share in discussion afterwards. For most students this will be your placement partner or other student in the school. If you are the only student in a school you should ask another adult if they might be willing to do this for you.
For all tasks you should make notes and keep copies of any written or drawn work produced by the children (anonymise the work), when applicable, or other records of evidence e.g. photographs (you must not include faces of the children in your photographs.) An outline of the tasks is in the document below. You can also watch the video.
Maths P1 Assessing Counting and Calculation.docx
Counting and Calculating Directed Task slides (these are the same slides as in the recording above)