Student Leaders work with Ms Allan to create a positive learning environment.

Possible actions:

• Develop exemplar websites
• Discuss current issues and how to solve them
• Define the leadership role:
  • Giving out positive behaviour slips
  • Monitoring website completion
  • Ensuring the room is left clean and tidy
  • Encouraging students to cooperate, respect and connect
  • Seek to understand why some students are not focussed
  • Look for creative solutions
• Build leadership skills as people management is a part of being in a position of responsibility in future careers and just as important as learning mathematics
  • Research types of leadership
  • Understand the progression from directing, coaching, supporting and delegating
  • Write a personal statement about the type of leader you wish to become
• Empower less confident students to develop their leadership capabilities
• Create a classroom culture that allows students to support each other and achieve more than they could in isolation
• Inform the teacher about what she could do to better support the learning of all members of each class

• Prime Climb - once a week?
• Student 'help desk' to activate students as resources for each other.
• Mathex - once a term?
• Number Talks - Math Talks - once a week?
• Polygraph (Desmos) - twice a term?
• Collaborative Tasks - once a term?
• To build the feeling of being connected we need technology free time to ensure we talk to each other whilst making eye contact. We need to listen and seek to understand each other. Laughing together whilst playing Prime Climb will ensure the basic facts are retained for life. Discussing our understanding of mathematics will help us increase our knowledge of why procedures work.

In term one meetings were on Tuesdays at lunch time, however, these were not well attended. At the end of term one classtime meetings were held, and the term was reflected upon. These were very informative and provided us with 'next steps'.

Meetings

Every student in a class is actually a leader. If they are on task and enthusiastic about learning mathematics, they are positively impacting on the learning of their peers. If they are off-task they are negatively impacting on the learning of their peers. When students take positive and purposeful actions to help their peers learn mathematics they are displaying leadership. The learning values of: Strive, Connect, Respect, Reflect and Create help guide our leaders actions. The aim is for all students to enjoy mathematics and experience success. The Leadership Model is developing over time, the Meetings record this development and Research records Ms Allan's readings.