Emma's Teaching as Inquiry

  # 4 Explain why you judge this to be the most important and catalytic issue of learning for this group of learners this year This is my second year teaching some of these target learners literacy. For some of my student support learners, they have been reading at red/yellow for almost a year now. I need to figure what will work for these learners.  What will support these learners to develop their phonological and phonemic awareness? How will I give learners the strategies to decode words?   What will help develop a love of reading for these learners?  How can whānau support their children at home with reading? My wondering is that if I can make it work for these learners, then I will have the tools and strategies to lift achievement of all learners.

  # 3 Chat with Gina (Year ¾ Associate Principal) Progressions of hauora on ST and see where they are at in those progressions.  Agency tool (well-being) and Te Whare Tapa Wha tool.  Present data- holistic approach. Measure well-being and the impact.  Is it achievable to connect the two- well-being and achievement tool.  Measure it again by the end of the term to see the shift.  Gathering data- baseline at beginning of term 1, data set at the end of the term. Hauora indicators that reflects our concept.  Writing pieces in term one is evidence.  Use the learning process to co-construct strategies, identify the 3 main ideas. Talk about the thinking skill and the definition. Connect to prior knowledge (what I know), practise etc.  Unpacking thinking skills in LP and weave in to the different tools and strategies.  Explicit teaching Data… COVID dip? Year 2s in reading- acceleration in reading online.  2 target groups: one ESOL and one S...

  #2 Describe how and why you have selected this challenge of student learning. Locate your inquiry in the context of patterns of student learning in Manaiakalani overall. I am so grateful that I am teaching with another Manaiakalani COL teacher this year. I think our collaborative approach to this inquiry will enable us dig deeper and extend our inquiry even further this year. We have decided to focus on Manaiakalani Achievement Challenge 5 Improve the achievement of students with additional needs in the learning areas of English/key competency using language symbols and texts.   However, as a school we are focusing strengthening our abilities to use the Stonefields Learning Process. In year ¾ we have identified that we have strengths in using the Learning Process is our planning and talking about the different parts and different thinking skills during our workshops. We wonder if our next steps would be around getting the learners to reflect on which thinking skills they hav...

#1 Summarise the challenge of student learning you plan to focus on in this inquiry. Be as clear and specific as you can about the evidence you have about this to date.  This year has started off so well! Our learners have settled in to their new hub and my amazing hub mate Jess and I have set up great routines in the hub. We feel very fortunate to have a group of children who are keen to dive straight into the learning.  We have identified that literacy learning is a need in our hub. We have 12 learners who are working below where they should be for reading. We have learners working within red, yellow, blue, green and orange levels of the colour wheel. We have identified that the learners in these groups are either ESOL learners or are on our Student Support register.  We have decided to focus on ‘Improve the achievement of students with additional needs in the learning areas of English/key competency using language symbols and texts’ Reading Data - Term 1 2022   Re...