Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

Inquiry Question: Build assessment capable learners, especially Māori Boys to increase their oral language capability to improve their writing                                             How am I going to implement this? Gift language as a scaffold for talking and writing Model picture talk Context related to interests Value high expectations of talk Use multimodel features in my learning design to support writing Scaffold writing frameworks Use Stonefields high leverage practises to enable assessment capable learners Use School Talk to support the learning Student learning: I want to see these learners showing confidence in speaking, and transferring their talk into writing. I want to see learners using their gift of language into their writing. Broaden their ideas and extend their vocabulary. Teaching hypotheses I felt it was important to...