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.