Blogpost #6 - Hypothesise & Research continued...

Explain how some of the data you have used to build a profile of the students’ learning will be used as baseline data at the end of the year.

Some of the data I have collected to build a profile of the students' learning are:

1. PAT Reading Comprehension
2. PAT Vocabulary
3. Student Voice on a Padlet
4. Probe Reading Test
5. RPI Learner Profile (from beginning of year)
6. Teacher Observations during Guided Reading
7. Completed Follow-Up tasks and Independent activities from Reading
8. Whanau Voice (from our school Talanoa evening). We listened to our whanau and their stories. They voiced how important Education was for them and all identified what they wish for their child to accomplish this year.

Listed above are the different measures of DATA I looked at to help me form my inquiry for 2023. Results from PAT assessments are from end of 2022 and beginning of 2023. The padlet consists of student voice from one of my reading groups. I have used the most recent assessment results and trust that they serve as a sufficient point of reference prior to the intervention.

I feel I have looked at various measures of data to build an accurate profile of my students and their learning in Reading.

Blogpost #5 - Hypothesise & Research

-Share your findings about the nature and extent of the student challenge. Make sure it is clear what evidence from your inquiry supports each findings:

Reading became a focus because of what the DATA said. Using students assessment results from EOY 2022 and BOY 2023, Reading stood out as a learning area that most students scale score was under the norm. 

At Glen Taylor School and in our team (Y7&8 learners) alone, learners from an Asian, Maori, Pasifika and MELAA background were scoring under the norm, compared to our European learners who scored above the norm. This could be down to a lot of reasons, such as; our non European learners are multi-lingual and have a first language other than English. 

I also created a PADLET to gain some student voice around Reading. Their likes/dislikes about it, what books they prefer to read and what I can do as a teacher etc and here is a photo of their responses.

RPI was ready for launching in the beginning of 2023, two of our teachers were signed up, and I was asked to be their mentor teacher. Fortunately, the two teachers are from my team, which made it easier. RPI is a Reading Practice Intensive that provides teachers with support to acquire content and practice knowledge to influence high quality reading outcomes for learners.

My intervention this year is the implementation of RPI; it's resources, tools and teacher practice knowledge to influence high quality reading outcomes for all of Team Tui.