Before talking about my intervention, I want to make clear that the focus of my inquiry has changed, yet again. My inquiry focus is: How does a teachers 'Occupational Well-being' impact the learning of their students.
The reason for the change is because 'Well-Being' is a broad concept and as CoL teachers, we cannot save the world in a day. I also found it challenging to come up with an intervention because of how broad my inquiry focus was. After a talanoa with Fiona, She helped me refine my thinking to understand how huge Well-being is. I will continue to shape my inquiry to an achievable focus, so that I know my 2022 intervention is successful.
Share:
What I've done differently this year is collaboration. I feel my team have hit the nail on the head when it comes to collaboration. We also do cross-grouping between the 3 classes in my team, that enables all learners to experience learning with the Team Tui teachers.Due to the previous 2 years consisting of a lot of home learning, we hadn't had much opportunity to ensure that this way of teaching and learning is executed effectively.
Describe:
Something I'd like to share from this change in practice is evidence of our planning. We have a team unit planning where we link in resources of what our students will be learning in the weeks of the term. We have resources for all levels (differentiation) and because it covers all the levels of learning in all 3 classes.
For Reading and Maths, we did cross-grouping, each teacher in the team would teach a level. For instance, I would teach Level 2 learners from all 3 classes, Mary would teach all the Level 3 students and Ronil would teach the Level 4 learners. We took into consideration our strengths, planned explicit whole class and guided group lessons and students in the team are able to connect with others outside of their classrooms, build trusting relationships with other teachers and work collegially with those at their levels.
Explain:
Some of the tweaks we made along the way was to ensure we planned for guided group teaching too. We did notice that when we were teaching the students all at one level, we tend to fall into whole class teaching and neglected group teaching. It wasn't until I was doing observations and I was being observed too, that this reflection was picked up.