Tiaki-James Pokere - Reflection, thoughts, inquiry, collaboration and more

Through the rich seem reading, I identified that I wanted to explore peer tutoring. The purpose behind this is the hope to motivate students to be more invested in their learning to achieve their learning outcomes. Through discovering my new inquiry, my team leader and I looked at how this would link to improving outcomes for my target students (Year 8 Māori boys) in Literacy, how we could achieve this  and the purpose as to why this focus is important and beneficial to the learner.  The purpose (Why) The develop accountability and engagement.  How  am I going to achieve this?  Modelling peer tutoring strategies Unpacking terms of what makes a successful peer tutor, using the T.I.P Chart.  Providing meaningful feedback/feedforward.  What am I doing (Teacher Inquiry)?  Inquiry Question - How will peer tutoring motivate students to be more interested in their learning to achieve their learning outcomes with regards to l...

This afternoon both classroom syndicate teams combined, collaborating together and moderating writing samples by students from each of the eight classrooms (High, middle and low writers). In pairs using the Reading and Writing standards, school writing progressions, and the E-asttle rubrics enabled us to discuss what students were achieving, what they needed to achieve and what they were close to achieving within that specific year level. Through moderation and discussions with other teaching staff it was alarming how we have many students achieving well below expectation right from year 1 through to year 8.  Moderation is important to help improve teacher judgement and decisions made about about the learner across all areas of learning. It enables us to think about the need for consistency of judgements made by and between teachers.    My thoughts/questions The number of students achieving below/well below the standard.  What can we do as a scho...