“Inquiry is a stance. It’s a way of professional being, it’s not a thing. We don’t ‘do’ inquiry. We’re just always asking ourselves and seeking for the evidence that we are making enough of a difference.”
Reading Inquiry - Aksel
Throughout the year I have tried many variations in my teaching to move Aksel on. I initially focused on building his phonics knowledge and then building his recognition of sight words however he could recognize most of the early words in set 1. Running records showed he noticed errors and was able to reread and he can make self corrections. However as he has progressed he has become stuck at green. I have struggled to effectively progress Aksel. His processing can be slow and he lacked fluency, I worked on fluency and motivation through the use of plays. Aksel is reading level 9-11 texts with lovely fluency and often on the second read his fluency is astonishing.
For this inquiry I have been lucky enough to work closely with Kate Roundtree the Resource Teacher of Literacy as the student I am inquiring into has received Reading Recovery and has not made the progress expected. I have had a hunch that there is a puzzle piece missing and if I could just figure out what piece it is then things might fall into place for Aksel. This has not been easy for me to pinpoint.
Link to the inquiry Document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xiZHsVh34M59GI2Vyo08lH1tlBPoqE-ussHgnYVKMTY/edit
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
Sunday, August 27, 2017
Inquiry Team - Rich Tasks
Rich Tasks
Today we redefined this as Rich contexts after our readings and collaboratively began to complete our inquiry spiral. We scanned our readings and clarified our collective understanding of Rich tasks and decided with our new understanding to call it rich contexts. Focusing: We have decided to focus on ensuring teachers understand what Rich Tasks are and then using these to foster student agency and Key Competencies.
Focusing
Slide Presentation Developed to show where we are at as a team and presented
to staff W10 T22018
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nq3EefYbq9qjx-3npeffgJD3nJOH6NFYFTYVK8dwL0M/edit#slide=id.p
Learning
Shared Inquiry Folder Google Drive
Today we redefined this as Rich contexts after our readings and collaboratively began to complete our inquiry spiral. We scanned our readings and clarified our collective understanding of Rich tasks and decided with our new understanding to call it rich contexts. Focusing: We have decided to focus on ensuring teachers understand what Rich Tasks are and then using these to foster student agency and Key Competencies.
Scanning: 26 February 2018
We discussed the definition of our Inquiry and decided we need to do some readings around what is
a rich task to make sure we all have the same understanding before we can truly understand what
we are tasked with doing. BJ shared the Inquiry folder with the team so we can all add articles in.
We also want to find out what our maths data is saying. What data do we have? How do we gather
this data at the different levels?
a rich task to make sure we all have the same understanding before we can truly understand what
we are tasked with doing. BJ shared the Inquiry folder with the team so we can all add articles in.
We also want to find out what our maths data is saying. What data do we have? How do we gather
this data at the different levels?
We looked at the EFS Guiding Principles and the Science Capabilities.
Guiding Principles or EFS
PAT data for math showing year group comparisons (yr 4-8, 2016-2017)
Pass on data sheet by class may be worth looking at for junior school math data- but no ‘set place’. Is our class edge musac worth exploring?
Science capabilities questioning sheet
Focusing
to staff W10 T22018
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nq3EefYbq9qjx-3npeffgJD3nJOH6NFYFTYVK8dwL0M/edit#slide=id.p
Learning
Shared Inquiry Folder Google Drive
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