Monday 26 February 2018

Quick60 Alphabets Program - An Opportunity to increase students' ability to record a sentence.

Goal:
Will using Quick60 program everyday increases students’ ability
to identify letters & their sounds, and increase number of words recognised?

Teaching & Learning
Quick60 for 40 minutes everyday
Take 10 target students for this program
Introduces one new word a day
Read and Write a sentence through dictation
Formation of one letter a day

Indicators of progress
Increase ability to identify names & sounds of letters
Increase number of HF words recognized
Attempt to use  known words in reading and writing
Increase participation in class discussion


Checkpoint & Reflection
Weeks 4 - 6
- Story behind each letter helps children to remember names and their associated sounds
- Uses simple language in forming of letters (short stick, circle, long stick etc)
however I think this is important to look at / inquire independently
-dictation is a bit too hard for the children, not a familiar activity - therefore I need to do this more often, and put a focus on it
-quick60 must be done everyday - repetition is very helpful
-quick60 books helps expand knowledge and experiences of chn
-the structure of the program is very good. It helps with reading as well as writing.

NEXT STEPs
Will using dictation help my children's spelling?
Will writing/forming letters correctly increase my children's ability/passion to record a sentence?



Friday 23 February 2018

Focusing Inquiry 2018 - Improve quality of Year 1 & new entrants' 'Writing'.

Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana, Kia Ora, Fakalofa Lahi Atu, Talofa Lava and greetings to you all.

After Considering
  1. My School’s targets
  2. Woolf Fisher Feedback from 2016
  3. Manaiakalani CoL Achievement Challenges

My inquiry this year as a CoL teacher is ...


TESSOL strategies are effective in scaffolding students to think, speak and write independently.  

Which strategies are effective to scaffold students to hear and record sounds independently,
to motivate them to speak and write confidently, and to improve the quality of their writing.


Wednesday 21 February 2018

Active Learners - Room 1

One of the things we have agreed to work on is about being an 'active learner'. We talked and discussed this topic with the class and this is the result of what my students have agreed on. (refer to the chart below)

We will try our best to follow this and act on it every day.



Friday 16 February 2018

Glenbrae School Values



We unpacked and talked about each of our school values every day. We provided examples, and identified situations / senarios for each of the values. 

Refer to the chart above for details of each value. 

We use the language of respects to help our students identify what they need to do. 

For example, "we respect our environment by making sure that our rubbish is going to the correct rubbish bin everyday".




Wednesday 7 February 2018

Welcome Back!!



Last year was very good, and I have learned and shared some of those experiences with some of you. I will
continue to be reflective on my teaching practice, and make changes if needed in order to meet the needs of
my learners.

I am very excited about this year and my goal is to accelerate all learners’ achievement in writing as
mentioned above.

At Glenbrae School for this year our focus is raising achievement in literacy with a focus
on Maori & Pasifika students. We also want to trasfer the leadership capability, and embed pedagogical
changes developed in Mathematics over the last two years to the leadership of literacy, especially WRITING.



1. WRITING SAMPLE


2. SURVEY

AN ACTIVE LEARNER


Teachers to consider when planning:


All the above questions are there to guide / help us forming our Inquiry focus for this year.

Last year Maths was about authentic problems and contexts that relate to learners’

prior knowledge.

This year writing is about the same thing!!. I can’t wait to see how these ideas work

and help my learners accelerate their learning. 

My learners will definitely have a great year of learning.













Class Site 2018


Step #1 for identifying inquiry focus for 2022

Unpacking and analysing last year's assessment data in week 5 of Term 1 2022 was essential when the school realised that we cannot colle...