Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

Feeling refreshed and revived and ready for and new Term. Our Hub Inquiry last over the last two terms has lead to a collaborative effort to Notice - Recognise and Respond.  We have been fortunate to be fluid with our groupings. Responding to Covid times has meant that we have been more isolating to one group for all our learning areas. This term we are changing it up.  Our Writing and Maths groups are with our Guardian groups, mixed ability groupings allowing us to do buddy learning, small group, whole group a range of fluidness to meet the needs of our learners.  Our reading groups are more based on ability but allowing us to be collaborative between groups. Our Concept and Breakthrough learning is with a range of mixed learners based on learners needs and interests. I am feeling as though a weight is lifted off my shoulders and I am feeling free in my learning design to be deliberate and cause learning.  Bring in the Learning process!  To help our learners make connections to what t

Holiday Time has arrived. Our mid year data across the Y1/2 cohort showed that we needed to target more of our learners to meet the national writing standards.  To cater for this need I created a 'writing ideas for home' slide to support whanāu who would like more support with how to help their child at home. Parent feedback is asking for suggestions, easy take aways and tips that can help at home. 

The Learning Process helps us to engage and think in our learning  We use the thinking skills to identify what we are doing to learn. Learners can talk about how they use the learning process in Writing. In summary, they comment that we use our senses to sound out the tricky words. We use 'what we know',  'notice' using the letter sound cards around us and word banks It helps us in reading when we are stuck in the Learning pit with those tricky words.  We explain how the thinking skills have helped us in writing. When I ask learners how the learning process helps you in your learning they refer to the three rocks. They have a good understanding of building knowledge. My goal is for learners to understand that the nature of working in the learning process is very fluid and not stationary in one rock. By making the learning process interactive, learners have a grater understanding of the transferability when using the learning process.