Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

  How Maori Learners can articulate through talk and conversation by building their language capability of what, how and why they are learning in writing? My teaching practise is evidence of how I am unpacking my Inquiry Goal. Reflections are to continue with differentiating learning for our student support learners.  A good range of learning experiences linked to the writing process, Stonefields School learning process works in conjunction to manaiakalani's learn, create, share philosophy. 

The tool measures the level of agency learners have to take ownership of their learning and make informed decision with the tools and strategies they use.  The survey will provide us with detail so we can evaluate the progress over time and the shifts we need to make. It will provide us with information to make adjustments to our learning design and deliberate acts of teaching.  We have standardised tests to access reading, writing and maths. We have designed a survey to provide us with more standardised and comparative data the focuses on the soft skills for example growing collaboration.  The soft skills that are measured are Reliance/determination Self Aware Take Action Using Tools and Strategies Collaboration' Assessment Capable The 6 Agency capabilities are representative of across school CoL goals and come out of our Stonefields School signature practices.... These comprise of the  'big 3'  Learning Pit, Learning Proce...

I nspiration from Chalkboard a way to guide and inspire reluctant children to write, by unlocking the vocabulary and  building on this in my learning design.                                  

Some great takeaways from the data show that parents and families that view their wellbeing at the forefront of their child's development. Our families want their child to experience success and happiness. We can teach this through our learning design. This can be done by learners following their passions and scaffolded through this process. 

I put myself out there and asked staff about my impact I have had on teacher practise. My next steps are to continue sharing my skills and expertise and provide more insights into how to support student support learners and raise Maori achievement. 

Another way to scaffold learners to talk about what they are learning and how the Success Criteria can support this process. This has been a great tool to support my writers. 

Supporting our Maori learners with whole body learning and knowing what to do when they are stuck. This scaffold has particularly been for a specific Maori leaner to support with when he is stuck in writing. This has been helpful and supporting him to take ownership of his writing. 

  Passionate learners collaborated, discussed and worked their way through the learning process to find out why hand dryers are more sustainable than paper towels. The dialogue, researching and note taking lead to writing not only factual information but a proposal to look into how to reduce the amount of paper towels and be more environmentally friendly. The initial discussion was set up through a Smarie Collaborative Learning Experience guiding learners to talk about and negotiate a process and way forward.       The incidental teaching lead to the principal passing through and giving us figures of how much is spent on paper towels through out the year.                                 Learners compared this with how many paper towels are used in a week across the school. Learners presented their proposal with confidence and passion. There was certainly a WOW factor in th...

  A collaboration of teacher inquiries resulting in end of year shift in reading, writing and maths for one of our learners. We were proud to share this progress of not only achievement but also in confidnenc. 

Engaged in some great dialogue with my Principal Sarah Martin where we ideated, bounced ideas and refined my Inquiry goal. Feel excited and clearer in my direction. I feel more focused on narrower goal to show shift in my learners voice and actions. 

Trying to formulate my Inquiry, Some thinking and questions about how learners are agentic in their learning. How are they making informed decisions? Are we and learners using space deliberately to target the needs of our learners? I have started to use this with my learners to take action of what they are learning, why and where is the best place to learn.