Emma's Teaching as Inquiry

Learners are loving the oral language opportunities!  Feedback from learners: I've made a few more changes to my reading programme:  1. Must do/can do's that encourage talking and deeper thinking about the book before they see me. This is allowing learners opportunities to develop agency in reading.  2. Use of paper modelling books. They still have digital modelling books but I am seeing such a positive change in the way they are collaborating and engaging in their learning with these paper modelling books.  3. Recently my hub has been having coaching around how to make the wall displays in the hub more interactive and purposeful for the learning. I have attempted to create wall displays that encourage learner agency.  Progress of some target learners in reading:  T1 running record T3 running record level 8  Level 19 level 8  Level 19 level 8 Level 18  Feedback from learners about what has helped ma...

My Inquiry so far: Term 3 2019 Main changes I have made to my teaching:  1. Introduce a range of different oral language activities and strategies in reading and writing.  2. Allow time for reflection in reading and writing time The first change was easy, I implemented a huge variety of games into my morning routine. We spent the first 15 minutes of the day playing games and talking. It was fun and the kids loved it!  These activities were transferred into our reading programme. Learners were being agentic by choosing the activities that they wanted to do during reading time through this magical map:  I found that these activities were fun and engaging for learners. They were being agentic by choosing games and activities that they enjoyed. But.. I wanted more. My goal was for the learners to develop agency in literacy. I wanted them to have a better understanding of their learning and next steps. My student voice showed that my learners STILL h...