Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

A way of showcasing our Stonefields Values. An opportunity for us to collaborate together and change up the timetable, be immersed in authentic learning and have an enriched literacy programme.

A huge success, parents engaged and eager to learn. Loved their involvement. The demonstrations of what to do and what not to do was powerful and helped parents with strategies to support their child with reading. It was helpful to start with parents experiences of what reading with their child at home was like and how they felt about helping their child.  This workshop was open to all Junior hubs, wonderful collaboration from the teams of teachers who were there to support.  This was the biggest turn out we have ever had at Stonefields School. Some comments from the Reading Together Workshop Some great takeaways from this Reading Together workshop, parents want these workshops to continue as they are helpful for parents to support their children with reading, therefore this supports teachers and raises student achievement.  Some great ideas here too with providing handouts with questions parents could ask about the book and how to support children f...

Manaiakalani Teachers Inquire into the CoL Achievement Challenges This is the achievement Challenge I am working on this year... "Lift the achievement in reading for all students, with a particular focus on boys and Māori students (both genders) years 1-13" We have a Y1 learner who is NZ Maori this is her progress in 2017. This learner has been at school for 1 year and 6 months.  She started at Stonefields at the beginning of the year. From the graph above you can see that she has made steady progress.  She is now reading at Green .  We want her to be at Orange to meet National Standards and be 'at' her level. The goal now is to get this learner to Orange level by the end of the year 8 weeks to go!! Steps taken to make this progress Regular parent connects twice a term. The content covered in these connects... How to use the Reading Prompt Cards at home and in association with the home readers. Sharing content from reading together ...

What have I tried?                                    What was successful?                   Where to next? Reading Together workshops Reading together blog post Had a great Parent turnout, helped to build relationships with parents too. 18 Parents came. Parent Voice “Thank you for explaining so clearly how we read with my child.’ “This has been great for me to see how take the pressure off, and have less battles at night.’ ‘Broch really hits home, now I see why my child would struggle.’ Next Steps Timely to do another one now that we have new learners and learners at a higher end now so it’s about modifying the workshop to cater for both extremes.   Core 5 and STEPS professional developmen...

Been a positive impact! Hi Ms. Anita Thank you so much for your email. I am so pleased that you are proactively asking the parents to support their children. I am really impressed with your teaching- learning strategies. I am mother of ****** and she recently started the school from this second term onward. When she arrived from India two months back, she could only read few words. But during the past one month, I have observed that she has improved her reading skills and all credit goes to you and other teachers in HUB 10. So thank you so much for your fabulous support to my daughter.  With regard to your questions:- What do you think are some of the barriers in reading for your child? -  She may not be able to read new and complex words.  *  What do you think would help your child make progress in reading? Probably assisting and teaching her how to read the words by identifying the alphabet's phonics .  Since English is her second language, s...

It has been great to get the insight of the parents and work closely with our parents and learners to create a partnership.  Dear parents, Hope this email sees you all well. I just wanted to communicate with you that your child is in my reading group now. It has been great connecting with you during LLC or at different times of the term by either three of us teachers, so you are aware of what level your child is reading at, and have some next steps in place. I just wanted to collect some parent voice from you, to best inform my teaching and best suit the needs of your child.  I have three questions *  What do you think are some of the barriers in reading for your child?  *  What do you think would help your child make progress in reading? *  What further support do you need to help you child progress to the next colour in reading? If you could please take a few moments to answer these questions it would be greatly ap...