COL Inquiry #4: Building an accurate profile of students' learning - tools, measures and approaches.
Describe the tools/measures/approaches you plan to use to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that challenge. Justify why you chose these approaches and tools.
My challenge is to create a learning environment that would encourage our students to be readers to feel comfortable to read and to approach reading with confidence. I feel that by doing this it will help my learners to make shifts in their reading so that they will be able to engaged in their learning. In our lessons students are have to read and respond to questions and this is an important skill to have if they want to succeed in Social Studies. I know that students might not be interested in learning about the news but if I make it a cool thing, hopefully they will be able to appreciate the value of knowing what's going on around them better.
PAT and diagnostic test results in reading
I am using PAT data from year 9 year as utilising mid-term and end of term exam results in the Current Events skills section
Reading Frameworks and strategies
These diagrams show the overall ethnic breakdown of my year 9 class.
Expert Support
I will be using the help of our PAT guru Mele Suipi-Latu and our literacy expert Marc Milford to help identify key gaps in the learning for our students and key strategies in my teaching approach to support achievement.
Student voice
I will use student voice, both formally in the form of google forms as well as have in-depth discussions about reading.
