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SPARK Inquiry - The Challenge
The following is a snapshot of the notes relating to my inquiry process. In order to make sense of the inquiry, it is important to know what the challenges are, and the desired outcome from the inquiry.
Achievement Challenge 1
Raise Māori student achievement through the development of cultural visibility and responsive practices across the pathway as measured against National Standards and agreed targets for reading Years 1-10 and NCEA years 11-13.
The Challenge for Learners
Students did not know what they were learning, and where they were at with their learning, in every subject. Students were not getting the same access to learning in each class and subject. Students needed to deconstruct the learning information, due to transitioning from one subject to the next, six times per day, five days per week.
The Holy Grail
Students know what they are learning, each day, week and month. Students know how this learning contributes into the bigger picture of achievement; achievement including NCEA credits that contributes towards the students building towards a meaningful career pathway of their interest. Students can track their learning with up to date and regular formative feedback.
The Inquiry
My inquiry is based on raising student achievement and shifting teacher practice around effective pedagogical practices including Learn, Create and Share. This will be achieved through the development, implementation and monitoring of the Visible Teaching and Learning Framework.
Profiling
Profiling: understanding patterns of student achievement and other valued learning outcomes in detail
- Teacher Practice - Consistent teacher practice. Inconsistent use of learning tools - Staff Survey
- Barriers to Learning - cyclical. Students bringing devices - why, why not - Student Survey
- Barriers to learning. Why should I change my practice? Teacher-focused - Staff blogs?
- Baseline expectations on the use of learning tools - e-Learning audit for Staff
- Inconsistent recording and assessment of data in junior school eg. curriculum levels - Kamar Entries
Hypothesis generation and testing
Hypothesis generation and testing: identifying and systematically testing possible explanations for the problem
- Teachers not having an understanding or valuing the holistic concepts around Learn, Create and Share, and the benefit to the learner and other stakeholders - Audit of Subject Sites
- A lack of accountability around consistent expectations of teacher practice - Audit of Subject Sites
- Teachers not realising that in many ways, existing teacher practice contributes to barriers to learning - Student Voice
- Learning resources sharing learning to suit the teacher, rather than in a way that suits the students - Subject Site setup and screenshot/links to sites
- Effective teacher practice needing to be modelled at all levels eg. walk the journey with staff versus do what I say, not what I do - Online resources (communities, resource sites)
Redesigning practice
Redesigning practice: Using research evidence to design refined and highly tailored responses to issues identified in the profiling
- Staff Survey Responses
Implementation
Implementation
- Run a Toolkit Session about VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning
- Focus on shifting practice within the Technology department by identifying professional development needs, one-to-one sessions with staff, and developing templates for staff to apply with students
- Compare shifts in teacher practice from Staff Survey Term 1 and Staff Survey Term 2
- Identify factors relating to Belief, Capability and Motivation, with regards to teacher practice
- Use models of teacher practice from ‘teacher shift’ in the Staff Surveys, to model examples of the use of VTaL across different learning areas, within the VTaL Google+ Community
- Promote existing Manaiakalani professional development options to teaching staff
- Promote examples of shifts in teacher practice; especially staff who are using different VTaL components for the first time eg. Learn Create Share (Carol and Blogging)
- Obtain student voice and feedback on VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning
Evaluation & Re-redesign
Evaluation & Re-redesign
- Compare NCEA Data 2016 and NCEA Data 2017
- Evaluate Staff Survey results and comparisons
- Identify strategies to address the School Goals and feedback from survey results
2 Comments
love the flexibility ofthecalandar and the fact that children can access what they need to do from home or catch up if they are away for any reason.
ReplyDeleteKia ora Hinarau, great to see the progression of your inquiry. Love the idea of VTaL (visible teaching and learning). Blog commenting as the next step - PTH and achievement criteria. Great to talk.
ReplyDeleteMaria