Goal: Increase the percentage of students achieving a proficient or extending score on the Grade 10 Provincial Numeracy Assessments.
Targets: · Increase the percentage of students achieving a proficient or extending score to greater than 60% by June 2026 · Decrease the percent of indigenous students achieving an emerging score to less than 5% by June 2026.
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Strategies and Actions: |
As a school we plan to focus on the following strategies and actions this year:
Enhance student belonging and engagement through Collaborative Problem Solving and department-wide initiatives aimed at developing Scientific Literacy and Numeracy Skills. Emphasize numeracy in science tasks. Provide students with the opportunity to participate in Regional and Provincial Math Contests. Explore how peer tutors can be utilized to support learning. Explore the possibility of after school Math Tutoring (HW Club). Partner with feeder schools to facilitate early intervention and targeted support for students with weak math skills. Target support for indigenous students and students at the emerging level, including supplemental numeracy programs during LR classes. Provide Numeracy exam prep/examples - continue to pilot Numeracy Graduation Assessments. Compile common standards for science literacy in each grade (ie. graphing/lab report expectations) Continue to develop classroom routines that focus on critical concepts… · Daily collaborative problem solving (numeracy-based tasks). · Applying math to real world examples. · Graph of the Week. · Would you rather questions. · Practice open ended problems requiring justification. · “Bell Ringer” word problems. · “Throwback Thursdays” to review previously taught critical concepts. · “Misconception Mondays” to discuss common misconceptions in science. · Math Walls
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Data to Inform/Support Numeracy Goal: |
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Data Analysis/Narrative: |
Over the past 7 years we have seen a significant improvement in our Graduation Numeracy Assessment results.
It is our belief that our daily focus on collaborative problem solving and real-life examples in our math classes has contributed to the steadily improving results on the Graduation Numeracy Assessment.
However, the percentage of Indigenous students in the emerging and developing category is still much greater than non-Indigenous students. |
