Geometry - I think this subject is made harder by the vocabulary involved, which seems (in my brain) to be much much more than any other strand (eg the different names for shapes, and parts of shapes, different types of angles etc etc). So it is heavy in that respect. Remembering them all is difficult so it will be necessary to have the words visible on the wall (for students and teacher), but word saturation in classrooms is an expectation of teachers at our kura so that will not be new. Planning to use them all will be necessary though. Teaching orientation and the measurement of angles is something that I feel comfortable with at year 7/8 level - however other aspects of geometry have been overlooked (eg nets, enlargement) so this is something to remedy, and the planning for that can start now. We usually focus on Measurement/Geometry in term 1 and then Location/Direction/Transformation (thankfully just called Mokowā now) in term 2 (so geometry overall gets quite a lot of attention at our kura) so I think there's really no excuse to not cover all aspects of geometry. Again, just like with measurement, assessments are not readily available in all aspects of the strand, so these will need to be created with support from my mentor to ensure validity and credibility.
