RPI: Day 2 - Know your learners as readers

 Today's RPI covered a lot! Thankfully I have been exposed to most of this through my team leader as we had a trial implementation of mahi tracker, the task board and also the spreadsheet to help keep track of our students learning.

One of the things I was reminded of was the power of our literacy cycles we had a while back. Dorothy shared and reminded us of some of the really awesome pedagogy that took place and where Learn, Create, Share originated from. This cycle was close to what I started with some 10 years ago when I first started in Manaiakalani community.

Something I've picked up from todays session would be that despite my students being lower level readers, I still need to expose them to skills and more complex texts (and text types if they are available at a lower reading level) due to what they will face in high school. I am referring to CAA - Common Assessment Activities. It will definitely be worth my time to do some backwards mapping as explained in todays session and adapt it accordingly for my 6-9 year old readers in Years 7/8.

Learning Intentions: I completed a few of my first years of teaching unpacking and studying Michael Absolum's 'Clarity in the Classroom' text. Even after all that, I still find myself struggling at times to word LI's and Success Criteria. What I took from today was to remember to remove the content from it and focus rather on the reading behaviour/strategy you want students to learn.

One take away I'll be sharing with my team would be: Aratohu Kaiako - great spread and types of questions in the 5 categories that each test will tell us. A great guide I’d never seen before. I actually need to see more about this as I had it in my note taking but didn't link the slides.

Overall, a great day of intense learning and I will definitely be using the planning sheet to link with the Phases rather than the old learning progressions.