Teaching As Inquiry Term 3
We shared our Inquiries last week. I set mine up as an expo, and talked to some of the practice I have changed, supported with evidence and supporting theory. I felt proud of the changes I have made and the shift gained.
My story this year...
My openness to facing the challenge of reducing barriers in reading. As part of my community of learning Teaching inquiry goal I’ve been looking into what are the barriers in reading and identify what we can do to overcome these barriers. I work in an innovative learning environment, in a hub with 86 learners and 4 teachers. 12 of the learners have been below national standards in reading. This has allowed me to work intensely with learners who are below their chronological age group throughout the year. After looking at the huge range of challenges these learners are faced with, it’s given me a sense of urgency and motivation to build their learning capacity and cognitively engage these learners so they can make an accelerated shift in their achievement. We are a 1:1 Ipad hub, so students have the opportunity to become digitally literate and drive their learning. I’ve created rich tasks that specifically work on decoding, phonological awareness and comprehension dependi...
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