Learner Profile Survey

 Student Survey

My class of Year 6 students completed a learner profile for me to gather information about attitudes, confidence and engagement in Mathematics. 

CONFIDENCE

I was pleased to see that the majority of ākonga feel confident in math. There is a small group that don't, so they will be my target students with a focus on developing their confidence. I will also do some work in class around mindsets and learning conversations.

CHALLENGE

This made me laugh. The question was about the level of difficulty of math problems and there are quite a few of my students who prefer easy problems. 

I am really interested in seeing how students answer this question at the end of the year as at the time of the survey, we hadn't done a huge amount of Math. I would be wanting more scores of 4 and none in 1 and 2. 

This was another interesting graph and showed me that just over half of my students say they prefer working on their own. We have been doing quite a bit of collaboration and having learning conversations in groups since this survey was done, and the majority seem to enjoy that. The end of year survey will be interesting to see if any of these preferences shift.

I used this graph as part of my introduction to Ground Rules for Talk in math and was anticipating discussion suggesting that students should do more math at home, but nobody voiced that opinion. Since this survey, we have been doing Mahi Kāika/Home Learning and basic facts has been part of it. 

I intend to do the survey in Term Four and compare the findings. There are definite shifts that I would like to see, so I have quite a bit of mahi ahead.