Blog Post #2 - Collaborating with Schoo Leadership Team

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In our recent meeting with our Senior Leadership team, we identified the priority groups for this year using data from end of year assessments 2019.

The priority target groups this year
1. Reading - Maori
2. Writing - Maori & Boys
3. Maths - Maori, Boys, Girls & Pasifika
Looking into my practice and what I think would benefit my learners and school, my focus for this year will be on Literacy, specifically Writing, and also the integration of Literacy across the curriculum. To be able to do this, I will firstly work on unpacking my current literacy programme and think about the following .... 
1. What specific writing features are my students learning to do? And why?
2. Are my learners aware of what they are learning about? (Not the purpose of the task)
3. Are my learners able to articulate why they are learning this?
4. What progress are my learners making? How? 
5. How can I unpack deeper writing features and teach these to my learners this year? 
6. What am I doing in my current literacy programme to build on and extend vocabulary knowledge and use in my learners? 

 With all these questions already floating around, my 2020 focus for my teaching inquiry is What changes can I make in my practice to ensure that my learners deepen their understandings of key concepts and ideas in Writing (deeper features)? 

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