TAI 2020 WFRC Question #1
#1: Use the ‘inquiry stocktake’ doc to reflect on and write about what you aim to learn about inquiry this year.
#1: Use the ‘inquiry stocktake’ doc to reflect on and write about what you aim to learn about inquiry this year.
Based on my inquiry around 'How can we better support students in reading who are ‘stuck’ in their learning (4+ years behind) and prepare them for college', here are some reflections points based on our stocktake list.
What worked well:
- Support and guidance from the Woolf Fisher Team
- Finding and identifying the mini-shifts in amongst the big picture
- Blog posts guide provided and noted by Fiona
- Learning conversations between our CoL teachers as well as wider staff and management
- Delving deeper into students learning behaviours BEFORE finding an intervention to try
- Getting enough evidence before the intervention. Great forward planning and prompting from our researchers
Challenges:
- Creating activities/tasks at a Year 7/8 level but catering to their reading ages which are 5-7 years old
- Busy class timetable - being consistent throughout the Term/Year despite the busy schedule and events happening
- Research - getting into the habit of research again and making sense of it all
Additional Support I'd like:
- A spreadsheet with areas of learning and interventions that have already been tried that we can have as a starting point
- Research - Where to start, who to approach, time to do it
Hi Latini,
ReplyDeleteThe challenge about making learning tasks for y7/8 at a 5/7 level is a massive one! I know I have definitely struggled with this in the past. However, looking at your learning resources I would say this is an area that you are doing well in these days - yes the texts are at that lower level, but the way you 'dress' your activities is definitely for older students.
What challenges do you anticipate for this year?