Friday 14 April 2017

EVALUATION OF TERM 1

Evaluation & Sustainability: How will you sustain the habits that are promoting success for your students?
I will continue using the 5 talk moves to facilitate discussion whenever I do Maths problem solving and use the 5 talk moves in other curriculum areas as well such as reading and writing. I will also get students to make connections between different strategies used in the earlier stage of learning e.g. using prior knowledge in Reading, Writing and Topic Studies to make connections to what they are learning. I will also encourage students to work collaboratively and talk about numbers in Maths and letters & words in Reading and Writing. Continue using TESSOL strategies such as Verb stories, cut up sentences and Rub off dictation to increase student engagement and confident in work independently in term 2.




What did you learn as a teacher / what surprised you?
The importance of using talk moves and also how effective it can be using mixed ability groups so that students learn from each other.
I also found that the use of some TESSOL strategies and more group worthy tasks at this age group allows greater collaboration by students. The use of number talks & subitizing also helped to get lots of discussion around numbers during Maths lessons.


I used talk moves in reading and writing especially when doing IOL program and it increased not just student talk but the quality of talk that they made. Wait time was very important and prompting them to add on was also vital though I still need to work harder on this next term.


I tried to use more than one modes of communication to make learning more meaningful to students. We used lots of pictures, flash cards, ipads, listening activities and some written language activities and students were engaged and also made so much progress within this term. Four of my target students have moved 6 levels up. I need to continue using same modes of communication next term.




How will you transfer your new learning to other students / curriculum areas?  
I will  use mixed ability groups in Reading and Writing and also use collaboration and the 5 talk moves and number/ word wall in all curriculum areas. Next term I will get students to repeat what others are saying - this will improve their listening skills and engagement, and encourage students to ask and answer questions and to explain their own and others’ learning. With Writing, next term I will focus on how to scaffold students writing - we will follow these steps - shared writing, interactive writing, guided writing then independent writing. I will continue to use more than one modes of communication in all areas.

Evaluation Term 1

Evaluation & Sustainability: How will you sustain the habits that are promoting success for your students?
I will continue using the 5 talk moves to facilitate discussion whenever I do Maths problem solving and use the 5 talk moves in other curriculum areas as well such as reading and writing. I will also get students to make connections between different strategies used in the earlier stage of learning e.g. using prior knowledge in Reading, Writing and Topic Studies to make connections to what they are learning. I will also encourage students to work collaboratively and talk about numbers in Maths and letters & words in Reading and Writing. Continue using TESSOL strategies such as Verb stories, cut up sentences and Rub off dictation to increase student engagement and confident in work independently in term 2.



What did you learn as a teacher / what surprised you?
The importance of using talk moves and also how effective it can be using mixed ability groups so that students learn from each other.
I also found that the use of some TESSOL strategies and more group worthy tasks at this age group allows greater collaboration by students. The use of number talks & subitizing also helped to get lots of discussion around numbers during Maths lessons.

I used talk moves in reading and writing especially when doing IOL program and it increased not just student talk but the quality of talk that they made. Wait time was very important and prompting them to add on was also vital though I still need to work harder on this next term.

I tried to use more than one modes of communication to make learning more meaningful to students. We used lots of pictures, flash cards, ipads, listening activities and some written language activities and students were engaged and also made so much progress within this term. Four of my target students have moved 6 levels up. I need to continue using same modes of communication next term.



How will you transfer your new learning to other students / curriculum areas?  
I will  use mixed ability groups in Reading and Writing and also use collaboration and the 5 talk moves and number/ word wall in all curriculum areas. Next term I will get students to repeat what others are saying - this will improve their listening skills and engagement, and encourage students to ask and answer questions and to explain their own and others’ learning. With Writing, next term I will focus on how to scaffold students writing - we will follow these steps - shared writing, interactive writing, guided writing then independent writing. I will continue to use more than one modes of communication in all areas.

Rub off dictation - 'students to remember their story'


Goal:
Students are not talking in Reading and Writing neither hold a story in their head for a while so I decide to use IOL (Intensive Oral Language) and some TESSOL scaffolding practices (such as Rub off dictation & verb story) to increase their ability to talk and hold an information in their head long enough to record it down.

In the ESOL online website I found these TESSOL strategies and I think they will help not only to increase student talk in class but also their ability to write at the end of the next four weeks.


First, we co-construct a story (whole class)and then use 4, 3, 1 strategy for students to repeat the story 3 times to three different friends. 

Teacher starts rubbing off some high frequency words one by one.  Students are therefore need 







Indicators of progress
(what I’m looking for that shows I’m making a difference to student progress)
  • Increase in student talk
  • Improve ability to write more than one word in a sentence
  • Increase confident to use variety of verbs in their story/talk
  • Increase students verbs knowledge
  • Improve in student waiting for their turn.

At the end of the four weeks, this is what I have found. And here are some of the results of their work from their work books.














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