levels. Dr. Jannie Van Hees

At the beginning of the year, when we first started discussing what the CoL focus would be for 2018, and with me already a year into my CoL inquiry, I was unsure as to how to connect "Language in Abundance"with my existing inquiry findings.   Not because what I was inquiring into was irrelevant to the concept of "Language in Abundance", but because my inquiry was and is focused around a framework; so essentially, a collective range of individual components and processes to enable accelerated achievement to take place.

My approach to addressing literacy for students within my inquiry process, focused more on the literacy associated with visibility and clarity of learning information for the students, as opposed to the literacy strategies for students.  This is reiterated in some of the Manaiakalani Inquiries presentation materials delivered by Rebecca Jesson, as shown in the image below "Are the instructions/ways to participate clear?"

Visibility and Clarity of Instructions

Some of the research materials that I'd been looking at with regards to visibility and clarity of learning information includes the following:

• Instructions https://goo.gl/bqk4Ap
• How to Write Clear Instructions https://goo.gl/StVytd
• Making Learning Visible https://goo.gl/TjXUP5

In terms of 'Instructions', useful take-outs from this resource link includes the purpose of instructions, as well as the features of instructions:


In terms of writing clear instructions, this research link focussed on three key areas:

1. Understanding the Task
2. Writing Your Instructions
3. Testing Your Instructions

This year I have been extensively trialing the use of Workspaces to communicate learning information to students, as well as collate evidence of student learning in order to provide students with both formative and summative feedback on learning tasks.  The trialing of the Workspaces is in comparison to the sole use of learning instructions that are embedded, linked and accessible to students via my Subject Google Site.

My next steps for further investigating the Literacy Lens of my Inquiry, is to identify the pros and cons of the use of Workspaces v my Subject Google Site, in terms of which resource (if either) is more effective in enabling visibility and clarity of instructions for students.