At the end of each term, I send out a survey to all of the year 9 classes to gather some insight into how the learning for the term has gone for them. We had 30 responses across the year 9 cohort.
My response to the graphs:
Question 1 seems fair in that 80% is at least 3 of the 4 students in the classes seem to enjoy learning in Social Studies. My biggest concern is around question two on whether students are feeling valued in their class. I wanted to ask this question because it important for me to know and think that they feel valued. On reflection, what I needed to do was to define ‘feeling valued’. For example, being heard, having a voice, seeing yourself in the learning etc, all of the things that research and good practice promotes.
3. What is ONE interesting thing that you learnt about in this topic, that you didn't know before?
- Intervening Obstacles people had to go through just to live their lives normally
- That the racism was actually very extreme.
- that dawn raids affected heaps of elder people and our ancestors from the pacific islands
- I learnt that Nee Zealand was a very valued country even back then in the 1970s being regarded as the land of milk and honey.
- I've learnt about the dawn raids, and in my previous school I've never learnt about that.
- not really anything because I learnt about this in intermediate
- Police would arrest Pasific people even if they did nothing or just do little things like swearing on the streets , but mainly people would get arrested if they were overstayers.
- That pacific islanders would called New Zealand the 'land of milk and honey'.
4. What are TWO things that you enjoyed learning about in this topic?
- Learning about the Pacific History and being able to communicate with others on my opinion or ideas.
- It was interesting to see after a long time the government finally apologised for their actions in the past. I also thought that the things we had to do was explained in a simple way so I could understand what we are learning about.
- That there might be some possibilities that one of my Ancestors were to blame for unemployment. And the fact that I got to learn more about polynesians, as a Polynesian.
- I have enjoyed just overall learning about migration and how it affects people. I have also enjoyed learning about the Dawn Raids as well.
- The history and what a dawn raider is
- Learning new things & Getting to share my knowledge with people at home
- That I got to know more about serious things that have happened way back ago
- I enjoyed learning the past and learning about having different opinions
5. Have there been any BARRIERS to your learning?
15 of the 30 said there were NO barriers to their learning. The ones that did said it was mainly distractions from friends, being sick. 2 said not having as netbook, noisy class, double periods being too long, 2 said they have difficulty in understanding the work.
6. What is one thing that you would like the teacher to know when it comes to your learning?
- I don't focus to well
- I like to work in groups to get to know my classmates opinions and thoughts
- I like to share my ideas with a peer or two
- I like to work by myself
- That I will finish the work on the First day.
- I am not the best at spelling
- i not really good with speaking in front of the classroom or working with people i don't usually work with.
My response to questions 3 - 6:
It was really interesting to read how students responded to the questions provided and I learnt some key points such as the term 'milk and honey' being a phrase that kids had just learnt.
Next steps:
At the start of next term, I will be sharing the results with staff and students and using the information
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