Keeping Up with Mrs Faalili

After analysing my data this year, (PROBE, PAT and student observations) I've selected and formed my ALL target group - Reading Focus. It's been a real journey getting to know my learners. I used the Learner Profile that we had received during our ALL PD to help gather information about my students. Because I know some of these learners are anxious 1:1, I conducted pair interviews and we sat down as a 3 to share and build their profiles. What have I noticed; - all my learners are boys - mainly year 6s (one year 5) - there is a mismatch between assessments (PAT & PROBE) - all my learners are working just below the expected level - they like to read non-fiction texts - there's a 50/50 split between prefer reading books/hard copy vs online/digital - 2 of them feel anxious when it comes to group teaching because it's too close to the teacher - vocabulary and not understanding what words mean make it difficult for them to understand what they are reading ...

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...