Keeping Up with Mrs Faalili

The domino effect  A causal chain is like the domino effect, if I make one change then I hope the rest will follow, you push the first domino over and the rest just topple down afterwards The focus of my inquiry is  How can I support my Year 8 students transition into Year 9 and achieve success? What changes in my teaching practice are going to lead to this change  Professional readings and research Collecting & analysing data - Observing what is currently happening in our setting that supports the transition for our Year 8 learners Observing Year 9 habits and movements Student Voice - worries and concerns for our Year 8s heading into Year 9, tips and advice from Year 9s for our Year 8s End of Year data for current year 9s. This will be compared to this year's end of year data. Use the comparative data to identify patterns and students who achieved accelerated progress.  Start the conversations of high school now! Don't wait for term 4.  Be proactive in Y...

To in form my inquiry, I will be using the follow tools, measures, and approaches: Tools -  • A google form to collect student voice on learning and key ideas for Term 1 and looking forward, for Term 2. Student voice is essential in gaining an insight to how they are feeling about what they are learning. Student agency is important and is a big driver in 'what' is being taught/explored so it allows an opportunity for me to provide a space for my learners to be engaged in their learning and see relevance in it, therefore making connections.    • Collect  student voice  and  self assessment  through interlead (teacher practice and a structured set of questions). This self asssessment is important because my goal is to ensure that how I am teaching, my practice, is effective for my learners. My expectation is that my teaching practice will change and adapt to the needs of my learners - my students don't adapt to my needs. The importance of student voice,...

Collecting evidence and data is proving to be much harder now that we're in lockdown and home learning. To help me start collecting data, I am using the Literacy Learning Map  from Gayle McIlraith from Learning Solutions and have used them to create a google form. This will help me collect student voice  Google Form - Literacy Learning Map . It's tricky thinking about the times that we're in and how we will collect evidence.  Here's what I aim to collect in the mean time ... (expect another post once things go back to normal - what ever normal is) 1. Collect student voice  Google Form - Literacy Learning Map . 2. Look at student blogs and analyse the work they're sharing  3. Look at student work (writing output) and analyse (identify strengths & gaps) This distance learning is definitely making it harder to collect evidence, but it also providing opportunities to be creative in finding ways to collect data. 

Describe the tools/measures/approaches you plan to use to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that challenge. Justify why you chose these approaches and tools. With the current times that we have and home learning, I plan to take the following actions to get a more detailed and accurate picture of my students' learning in writing - collect student voice (using google form/padlet/google doc) about writing - I used this form last year to collect student voice >> Literacy Learning Map and will use it again with my learners (the questions). This will help me gain an understanding of my learners through a literacy lens. - integrate curriculum using the LCS model - talanoa - easTTle writing from Term 1 (recount). This provides a snap shot of independent, timed writing. When back onsite, unpacking student writing to identify strengths and next steps as I feel the pathway doesn't identify these specifically. - writing samples. By lookin...

Talofa  Lava! My inquiry this year as a CoL Within School Leader is how can I change my practice to lift achievement for Reading for all students, with a particular focus on boys and Maori students (both genders). I'm extremely excited to be able to delve into my practice this year and really look at how I can raise student achievement in Reading. Come on this journey with me. Malo Lava, Poto