Over the course of the day I have had many opportunities to increase my understanding. I have reflected on what I am currently doing within my planning and what it is I actually want from my learners. I believe I need to dedicate a good chunk of time to getting myself better planned and prepared to get myself into a routine and implementing good systems. At present it is not working for me so I need to look at how I can imbed the pedagogy better.
Preparation is the key. It is not a subject that we can teach effectively and meet the needs of our learners without putting in the ground work. It is important that we can spend the time to prepare in order to get the desired outcomes. This is definitely a key point I need to take back to my team whom I feel could also do with a refresher around this and the planning for the students and their learning needs element. How can we set ourselves up for success both for ourselves and pur learners?
So many learning opportunities to develop reading responses. The idea of setting up a 'one stop shop' of graphic organisers and set out under each reading strategy is a fantastic idea for developing independence and self directed learning. This would have to be built up over time as each strategy is taught and revised. I am also going to develop an on line modelling book that the learners have access to which reflects our learning. I need to put the time into developing my planning and linking these all together to have the desired outcomes I want. I have so many ideas floating around in my brain - now to implement them!
Within my hub I would like to share the ways in which we can enhance our planning. The text from *Fountas and Pinnell offer ‘strategic actions’ to teach, prompt and reinforce skills. This is a great resource for drawing out key questions within our planning. This will become a key feature with our hub planning as I know that this is an area that has not been happening so well.
So much food for thought today. To make myself a to do list and tick things off around my planning. I think that this will make me feel that I have more organisation and control over my reading programme. At present I feel that I am doing things but no necessarily doing this well! Watch this space
Professional Journey
Monday, May 6, 2024
Session 4 Reflections: Guided Reading (& Comprehension)
Monday, March 25, 2024
Week 3 - Text selection
Week 3 - Text Selection
For me this week I feel that I have solidified a lot more around the 'why'. The importance of taking the time to select the text for our learners, what is actually going to help us to meet our learning objectives? Gone are the days where we go to the bookroom and take the next books on the shelf because thats where we are up to (baring in mind I teach Yr7/8). What Dorothy talked about - documenting and recording what we have read digitally daily. I do this for my basic facts so why am I not doing it for the independent reading? It seems so obvious upon reflection. Will definitely be starting this next week!
Encouraging the Oral fluency of our readers is huge. I would like to include in my weekly task board that students need to rcord themselves orally reading at least twice a week. Chooseing one of those scripts for them to analyse. I am not sure how this will look yet, but definitely food for thought. It might be a great independent task for my release teacher. I can see this as a fantastic tool to help build the confidence of some of my more reluctant readers if this is promoted in a safe non threatening way. So many valuable takeaways with resources. ideas. I love the sharing and reflection time, I always come away buzzing. A huge takeaway I am taking back to my team tomorrow is the termly overview of text and the year text coveage. Since starting the RPI I have been tracking my own text coverage but it is definitely timely to be looking at my team and what we are covering and looking forward into Term 2 with where to next. Building/creating/sharing multimodal text sets no only helps us to reflect on what we are using within our teaching but helps us to formulate a valuable resource.
Soooo many useful pieces this week and lots of food for thought!
Monday, March 4, 2024
Week 2 Reflection - Know Your Learners as Readers
This week has been a huge week of reflection for me. Do I actually know my learners? How am I using my data to the greatest effect? In a nutshell I don't think that I am utilising it to its fullest. So what am I going to do
My biggest take away from todays session is the tracking sheet and having a comprehensive collection of data. How am I going to use that data to create next steps? My goal before our next session is to really unpick the PAT data even more closely and look at the common factors. Having the progressions and all planning information in a one stop shop is amazing. I think that it not only helps with planning but also keeping us on track to ensure that I am giving due diligence to all areas and not more focus on the areas that I may feel more comfortable in.
For me as part of my takeaway rom today's session I would like to really unpack the data that I already have and fill in what I can on the tracking sheet so that I can build up a clearer picture for myself. I am the person who loves analysing data to inform my practice so I would feel that I have a
As part of our Kahui Ako this year we have a major focus on Formative assessment so the reflection on this and creating refined LI and SC is timely. This will help me when I take my learning back to my team and I can tie it in to what we have a our Kahui Ako goals. The next 3 weeks are going to be busy, but I am excited for the challenge and I look forward to seeing where the data leads me!
Friday, March 1, 2024
What kind of Reader are we in Totara 1?
The implementation of the reading survey with Totara 1 was a very interesting exercise. A very large number of my students don't see themselves as readers and have a real barrier towards reading. 75% of my students indicate that they don't like reading at school. This correlates to the 78.6%of students who have indicated they don't like reading for enjoyment in their own time.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Manaakalani Reading Practice Intensive - Session 1
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Professional Reading Week 4 Term 1
Building Positive Relationships
with Children
for child development. Kids really respond to comments refer to page 5.
Banking of positive comments
Thinking, and Problem Solving
how to…” • “You must feel proud of yourself for…” • “Excellent idea for…” •
“You’ve done a wonderful job at…” • “See how _______has improved in…” •
“You have worked so hard…” • “Look how well s/he did at…” • “That’s a
resourceful way of…” • “WOW!! What a fabulous job you’ve done of…” •
“That’s a cool way to …” • “I’m so appreciative that you…” • “You put a lot of
work in to make that picture the way you wanted…” • “You’ve really grown up
because you…” • “You are a real problem solver for…” • “Brilliant thinking
for…” • “Give me an EXTRA HUGE high five for…” • “Tell me what you like
best about your creation.” • “Class, I have an announcement! Let’s all give a
hip, hip hooray to _____ for _____” • “I really appreciate the way all of you
have your eye on the story and are listening so carefully so you don’t miss any
part of the story.”
Session 4 Reflections: Guided Reading (& Comprehension)
Over the course of the day I have had many opportunities to increase my understanding. I have reflected on what I am currently doing within...
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I can see the next 3 terms being a fantastic journey into my reading professional development! So many inspirational take aways already, no...
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Week 3 - Text Selection For me this week I feel that I have solidified a lot more around the 'why'. The importance of taking the ti...
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The implementation of the reading survey with Totara 1 was a very interesting exercise. A very large number of my students don't see th...