My reflection on Session 2's learning.
Today was my session in the Manaiakalani Reading Intensive Practice. We discussed how we could use our student's assessment results and surveys to help guide us in providing a reading programme that involved the children's interests and needs.
Looking back at the reading survey and identifying the groups' interests will help me build a programme to incorporate texts that will motivate them and introduce them to texts they have yet to opt for notably poetry and newspapers.
Also, opening the children up to the amazing world of our school and local library
We looked at the Teacher's Workbook which had a one-place stop for planning for our groups, assessment results, assessment reflection, notes and observations on our students. This planning initially sent me into a tailspin as I thought about how I could link this to our current 4 teaching team. Our teamwork plans covered the areas in the workbook through studio data spreadsheets, planning through T-shaped literacy, Literacy Circles and Group planning with AO's, Learn, Create and Share format. I have decided to use the workbook for 1 team currently and see how it can fit in with our team planning and what impact it could have further down the line. I shared the Workbook with my team and will reshare it after I have worked through to mid-term 2 to get a real feel for the format. I have started with Week 6 programme and Week 9 planning recording in the Workbook and using the Taskboard. I have made adaptions to make the sharing of the students learning more compact - a work in progress. The sampler Taskboards has really helped in guiding my thinking. Choosing a genre for students to read from has turned out to be a great discussion point -scarey stories weren't on top of the student's list, but they have loved exploring titles in Epic and sharing the scary bits : >
The session on the Pillars of Teaching explored how the PATs can guide the students' learning. I have used this to inform my teaching and shared with whanau and students. at Learning Conferences. I was pleasantly surprised at the children and whanau's questions about the results and what it meant for them.
The "Characteristics of Expert Teachers" had the greatest impact on me. As I read it I thought this is so succinct and achievable. It sits beside me to reread and check off as I plan. It just makes so much sense and keeps things in the "Goldilocks" space.
I have been interested to go through your teacher's workbook with you and to see what information you have been recording in there. We have had discussions around this being similar to some of our whole school expectations and how we use our whole school management system and this will be something that you will need to navigate with time. I do like the idea of having all of the information in one place that is easily accessible and it is also easy to pass onto other teachers if you needed to.
ReplyDeleteYour taskboard looked interesting and I am glad to hear that the children have been enjoying participating in the activities and reading the scary stories. Unfortunately due to time constraints and camp I was not able to come in and observe any lessons but I am looking forward to coming in next week to have a look at what the children have been up to.