Blog post #10 - Monitoring the effects

Identify informal and formal ways you are monitoring the effects of your changed practices/intervention on learner outcomes. Explain the reflections and tweaks you are making along the way 

1. Interlead Reflections - Glen Taylor School uses interlead as an appraisal tool. It allows us to reflect on our teacher practice as much as we want. From 'wow' moments, to 'fail' moments. It's a great way for me to monitor the effects of my own practice and the new changes I've implemented.
2. Student voice - this occurs informally and formally at GTS. Once a term, our learners provide learner voice on our practice. Informally, we use google forms or padlets to gage student ideas on what learning should look like for the term, what they enjoy most about each learning area, what Miss Tupou needs to work on etc. We are open to feedback from our learners because we tell them "We want to be the best teachers we can be, so be honest about what needs improving, no offence will be taken".
3. Teacher Observation - With shared reading, I've noticed student engagement is at an all time high. For the first couple weeks of re-introducing shared reading, we looked at song lyrics and spoken word poetry. Our goal was to 'infer using evidence from the text'. First time we worked on this as a class, it was a fail, due to interruptions through out the lesson (Kapa Haka rehearsal, support staff teachings, dentist appointments etc). So, I tried again the next day, with my whole class there. It was a huge success. The song was 'Dear Mr President' by PINK. We had a class copy put on the whiteboard and each student was given a copy of the lyrics. By the end of the lesson, most of the students had made 5+ inferences/anecdotes on their pieces of paper. Below is an example of one students anecdotes on a piece of spoken word poetry piece, we used for shared reading.