Maths Streaming - Senior Syndicate

This year the senior team has decided to stream across the classes for mathematics - number teacher.  Streaming is method of placing students in temporary instructional groupings according to
their assessed readiness to learn particular skills.   All teachers in the share
responsibility for the entire year levels, with each providing focused instruction to
groups of students brought together by academic need and readiness, rather
than by class assignment.

Our goal is provide appropriate, targeted, math instruction that is tailored to students’
fluctuating readiness levels.

Our Method:
 • Students will be taught the number strand of the mathematic curriculum and will have the other streams taught by their classroom teacher.
• Prior to the start of all number units, students will be pre‐tested using
tests that assess the same unit goals as those that will be assessed in
post‐unit‐assessments.
• All students will pre‐test at approximately the same time,  on the
same day.
• Students will be re‐grouped temporarily for the next number focus, according to their
performance on the pretest.
Teacher assignments will focuses on:
o Key concepts and objectives
o Lessons as outlined in NZ Math with emphasis on pre‐test
gaps
o Extensions designed to challenge students who demonstrated
pre‐test mastery

Benefits
• Sharpens teaching focus to a narrower range of student readiness levels.
• Fosters student interaction with others at similar readiness levels.
• Provides customised level of instructional challenge for students, unit‐by‐unit,
ensuring that they are neither overwhelmed nor stagnating.
• Allows free movement between short‐term groups to accommodate
individual students’ developmental progress as well as setbacks.
• Cultivates student growth by fills conceptual gaps while avoiding redundant
instruction

We found the 6 weeks that we trialed streaming across the syndicate very beneficial for both students and the teachers and have decided to do continue to stream for all number units.  The next being at the end of this term for a multiplication and division focus.