Post 3: The most important issue of learning

Post 3 Explain why you judge this to be the most important and catalytic issue of learning for this group of learners this year.
After a lot of thinking and with further observations of my learners, I have finally decided that my inquiry question will be: 

 How might an increase in oral language opportunities support Maori learners to develop agency in literacy?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blog post #10 Reflecting on my inquiry term 3

Image
Blog post #10 Restate your inquiry question and your theory of action/chain of events ( so you keep your eyes on the prize ) Describe how you will collect information about the implementation of your changed practices/intervention ( so it is clear what you doing differently ) My Inquiry Question How might an increase in oral language opportunities support Maori learners to develop agency in literacy? Changes to my teaching:  I have increased oral language opportunities into my literacy programme. - Independent activities: - Time to reflect on learning by using learner qualities:  - Gifting vocabulary to reflect on own learning and peer learning:  - Creating a success criteria of what a "good speaker" looks like and sounds like. Reflection:  I am noticing a change in my learners oral language capabilities through the Combi tool data, as well as seeing good progress in most learners running record results. However, I would like to see ...
Read more

#8 How the data will be used as baseline data at the end of the year

Image
  Explain how some of the data you have used to build a profile of the students’ learning will be used as baseline data at the end of the year. As you can see in post #4,  we have collected formative assessment data from Running Records, Little Learners Love Literacy and Liz Kane's 'The Code' spelling tests to gather baseline evidence for where our target learners are sitting at the beginning of the year. We will use these assessments throughout the year and will monitor their progress. If we notice that there has been no shift in the data at the middle of this inquiry, we will revaulate.  We have also decided to monitor the wellbeing of these learners. Stonefield's has developed a Wellbeing Assessment Tool called Te Whare Tapa Wha. We will use this to monitor the wellbeing of learners at the beginning of the year and the end.  We are also able to track their wellbeing progressions through Schooltalk. Below is a snapshop of target learners wellbeing gap analysis:...
Read more

DFI Session 3: So much fun getting creative!

Image
Today was so much fun. We focused on the Create aspect of the Manaikalani Learn Create Share and I learned so many new tricks to get creative with my learners as well as how to use Google tools creatively as a resource for my teaching.  Create Children from the day they are born love to create! But somewhere along the way, it gets knocked out of them. Sir Ken Robinson - advocates for creativity in schools. Interview about beliefs on creativity in schools.   Employers need and want people who are creative! How could I use the create aspect for literacy - in particular Oral Language? Slides to Create Digital technologies are such a hook for our young people. With the removal of paper and pen writing results has improved!! Children can now focus on being creative writers. However how can we use technology to empower creativity in reading and maths? Do we have time for learners to learn, create and share throughout every d...
Read more