Teacher Inquiry Blog Post 5

This week we presented our teacher inquiry to our staff. 

My questions was :

"What impact on reading comprehension will implementing the RPI strategies have on my learners when Time Point 2 PAT and running record data is collected and compared with Time Point 1 data in T4?"

When comparing my time point 1 data to my time point 2 data, I can see there has been an overall improvement in each students' comprehension in PM Running Record data. However, when looking at their PAT results, 1/5 showed improvement, 2/5 did not progress and 1/5 showed backwards shift. This is interesting as their individual running record showed an improvement in all of the students. This could be due to my learners being more confident in conversation. This is something I can look at for next time.

Overall the presentation went well, I enjoyed listening to and sharing my own experiences with the RPI programme this year. It was interesting to hear other colleagues' teacher inquiries for the year and I was able to take in some ideas to trial in my own.

Share Staff Meeting

Manaiakalani organised a 'Share' meeting for all of schools to share their teacher inquiry for the year. This was a great opportunity to connect with other colleagues and see what they were focusing on for the year. We were placed in groups according to our subject focus. This meant I was with other teachers who were targeting their reading practice. 

This meeting went very well and there was a lot of support and ideas shared by other teachers. We were able to bounce ideas off of one another and share our experiences in our reading practice. Greg and I were the only ones in our group that decided to incorporate extended discussion in our practice. 

Below are the notes I wrote before attending the meeting.

Staff Planning Meeting

As a staff we had a planning meeting to prepare for Term 4. This is our second planning meeting and they have aided me by enabling myself to make connections to the term's topic in all areas of the curriculum. 

Next term we will be planning collaboratively as a syndicate. This will be a great opportunity to learn off my colleagues and develop both my content knowledge and teaching ideas.

Link to my notes 

Term 4 planning:

Term 3 Planning (staff meeting):

Term 3 Planning with the syndicate: