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...

Data Digging Data digging with my colleague and fellow CoL Teacher, Christine Tupou. We looked at PAT Data for Maths, Reading and Writing and compared our school data with that of our cluster. We also looked at our Data over time and compared End of 2017 data with End of 2018 data. What did we notice? There is a decrease in those achieving Below the expected level in Reading and Writing, however, there is an increase in those achieving Well Below. There is a decrease in those achieving At the expected level in Reading and Writing, however, there is an increase in those achieving Above the expected the level. There is an increase in those achieving Below the expected level in Maths, however, there is a decrease in those achieving Well Below. There is an increase in those achieving Above the expected level in Maths, however, there is an increase in those achieving Above the expected level. Maori Achievement isn't good - why? What are we currently doing? What are some...