Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

Hub Padlet - Sharing Home Learning This is an intervention to strengthening parent partnerships by creating a three-way level of communication; whānau, child, and teacher. A parent focus group suggested a Hub Padlet to not only share their child's home learning but to also get ideas from other parents about how to support their child. Teachers comment on the learning, provide feedback, and feedforward. The next step in my leadership is to measure this impact at two points in the year, beginning and end. Also, to continue share this practise the influence it has - help others to make this their own. Breakthrough in Reading - Project lead A passion lead breakthrough set up during reading time to extend those learners who are more able and are making accelerated progress. This initiative was set up to keep these learners engaged and motivated through real and authentic learning. This is still a work in progress, through my change in leadership role, it has changed the level of flexibi...

A positive and informative parent meeting. It was wonderful they took time out of their day to come along. The parents all gave some great suggestions for how we can help our parents to help our children at home.  They felt we communicate learning progress as a school well and in a timely fashion. The next step is the incidentals and information on how to support their child at home.  Parents said that our teachers do the following things well... Know our children well, parents feel well informed by this and confident that they are doing the best they can. Provide an open-door policy.  Running workshops are effective - would like to see a portal for all the recordings of these workshops for future reference. Could this sit in the Home Learning Site? Some of the big takeaways from this parent focus group are.. Through a digital and hands-on lens. Utilise our Home Learning site, and send home writing books with an area for parents to comment and leave their voice.  

Achievement Challenge 3: To lift achievement in Reading for all students, with a particular focus on boys and Maori (both genders) I'm going into this Achievement Challenge by enhancing whānau engagement I will measure this in two ways: Teacher capability to engage with our whānau. Measure the level of engagement of whānau with their child's learning and progress in Reading. The areas to investigate are ... What are the capability levels of our teachers, and how I can have an impact on supporting teachers to build their capability. Measure the level of engagement of our whānau through the Kotahi Whānau Tool and other ways to record this data. Across our Cluster, our data is showing that the rate of progress is slower as learners move up the color bands of where their expected reading levels should be. School Data... Another view is from School Talk over all levels for reading levels Beginning of Term 1 Hub 2 Y1/2 Learners' overall reading levels.  How can I engage with Wh...