#1TAI20 Summary of the challenge of student learning that I will be focusing on in 2020.


Key Words
assessment capable student achievement in writing whole body learning


I have had the privilege to being a within school member for three years. Over this time I have inquired into many areas of literacy and how I can engage learning and shift my practise Some of the major areas I have inquired into which have caused shift are..
  • Linking movement to Reading and Writing, which includes the whole body.
  • Building relationships with whānau and knowing thy learner.
  • The learning design reflects our design thinking.


To start the year our TOD's were lead by Carolyn Stuart from weaving futures, specialist in Deign Thinking.   Where we learnt about empathy mapping and creating 'Learner User' Stories. To help us build deeper relationships with our Maori learners and parents.
This has given me more of an insight to knowing the narrative of a learner and their whānau

The Challenges of student learning that I will be focusing on it...


  • Closing the gaps in writing and raising student achievement in writing.

  • Using Oral language to develop their vocabulary to support the writing process

  • Providing tools for our learners to be assessment capable.


I am leading my inquiry towards...

Building assessment capable learners especially
Māori learners to raise student achievement in writing, by deliberate acts of teaching, which includes oracy and whole body learning in my design. 


Comments

  1. Danni Stone19 March 2020 at 11:58

    Kia ora Anita,

    I too have been inquiring into literacy for the past few years and although we teach at different levels, I can definitely see some similarities - I will be interested to look further into some of your past inquiries. I really like the term 'assessment capable' too as this is something I am looking into with my learners this year.

    Danni

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Anita Unka28 May 2020 at 16:28

      Kia ora Danni,

      Great to connect we have similarities in our inquires. Assessment Capable is an area I believe that at all year levels we can scaffold ways for learners to take action in their learning. Knowing learning gaps in learning and next steps.

      Thank you
      Anita

      Delete
  2. Anonymous17 April 2020 at 11:34

    Hi Anita,

    It is good to see that you have made your decision about your inquiry focus. I was wondering what were the factors that motivated you to choose this focus? I would love to see the thinking and analysing process behind this. Thanks.

    Allen

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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 depending o
Read more

'…reflective, critiquing…inspired and willing to be discomforted'.

Image
    Today I was inspired by Jannie van Hees who later thanked me for being ' …reflective, critiquing…inspired and willing to be discomforted'.  I began to think.. Why do we group our learners according to their colour level? Is that what is going to give us bang for buck ? Maori learners data from end of 2017 shows... How am I ensuring a balance between the digital world and hands on experiences to create a love for reading? The struggling reader, how do I open a new world of reading for them? Are learning spelling words helping learners to read? Are these words transferring in their writing?  Do I know my learner's knowledge about reading? wouldn't reading about learners breakthrough passions help to increase their vocabulary, knowledge and language? Link to this article So when I read this article I see some areas to work on: Organise reading challenges  "We challenged students to read one book, fiction or non-fiction, from a wide ran
Read more

Inquiry Summary - Burst and Bubbles 2022

Image
My child loves reading, but writing is so much harder for them. I can teach reading, but not writing. They are just not interested in writing  If they don’t know a word should I tell them or do I let them guess? Kia ora, Great to be back here to share my 2022 Inquiry. whānau voice is asking us to partner alongside to help them support their child in writing,  The data collected from earlier this year, EASTle, Overall Teacher Judgements, Gap Analysis in School Talk, Our school-wide data, and tracking attitude and confidence show there is a dip in progress and learners are not making the expected rate of shift or are below standard in writing. I saw this as an opportunity to strengthen relationships and educate whanau on how to help their child at home.  I led a parent writing workshop to upskill them on how we use the LP and to engage their child in writing. We unpacked writing samples to notice what is happening to their child. At Whānau day learners shared their writing success and ne
Read more