Day 2 Reflections on RPI - Know Your Learners

Today's theme for this week was Know your learners as Readers. At the start as always it was great to see our enthusiastic presenters doing their mahi in their positive and experienced way. Being able to revisit our homework through our readers profile survey was a good start and quite doable until we were taught what their reading comprehension assessment results could possibly mean. That was quite a hurdle to jump over as there was quite a bit of English jargon that I needed to get my head around and somewhat out of my learning space. Thus we perservered and managed to upload names onto the teacher workbook with the 10+ columns of evidence required for each student. Thankfully for some reason all my students were not showing on the individual report where I discovered Local Inferencing, Interpret and Integrate were my PAT Reading next steps. What did I learn that increased my understanding of the kaupapa and pedagogy of the Manaiakalani Reading Programme ? There is a lot of technical jargon that is used for assessing and reporting back to shools and parents however Manaaikalani tries to break this down in some way through examples of challenging activities that I think works well in Primary Schools and is being utilised in Colleges. I am needing to adjust planning to fit these activites in. What did I learn that could improve my capability and confidence in teaching reading? Continue to engage with my students through the Nature of Science which are Communicating Understanding Investigating Participation and Contribution. What did I learn that could be used with my learners? There were some good insights about the whale and sharks task board which could be implemented into Seaweek which is this week. How to write up weekly taskboards with Learning Intentions, WALT, WALHT, Learning Objectives. What did I learn that could be shared within my wider community, with either colleagues, or whānau/aiga? The Library is a very useful facility for our community, colleagues, whanau/aiga to visit and learn from. Connecting classes to using the library more often to take out books or to even use the search up a book title author on our OC portal page is quite effective for all to use. Thanks Presenters Ngā mihi

Profile Survey Reflection

First and foremost students were able to fill out the survey about themselves ✔ 14 completed survey 25/2 10 completed today 4/3 Email 24/24 First Name 24/24 Last Name 24/24 Otaki College 15/24 Year Level 24/24 Then after receiving feedback from the survey here is a short summary. PART ONE: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT READING? Q1 4/24 likes reading at school Q2 3/24 ss like reading books digi or non digital Q3 2/24 ss like reading other digital texts in own time Q4 5/24 students are enjoying a book for enjoyment Q5 7/24 students thought reading texts in their own time helped them Q6 6/24 ss have never borrowed a book from a library Q7 7/24 ss had no texts they liked to read in their own time Q8 6/24 could not list 1 favourite book Q9a 6/24 students have never had a teacher suggest further reading Q9b 6/24 students did not do further reading Q9c 12/24 could not give an example Q10 16/24 had no for their response PART TWO: HOW SKILLED ARE YOU AT READING? Q11 8/24 ss are good at reading Q12 5/24 teachers think they are good readers Q13 13/24 family whanau thinks they are good at readin Q14 Q15 When it comes to reading I want to get better at… Life skills and success: Being a good reader is important for being successful in the future and helps with almost everything in life, including having patience and learning many things. Employment: Reading skills are necessary for a good job, as reading is required for most jobs and older people with good jobs often read a lot. Understanding and knowledge: It is important to be able to read and understand information, become smart, and learn. Practical application: Reading helps with school, spelling, and passing tests, and allows people to read things that are important or needed. Q16 5/24 did not know why it is important to be a good reader Q17 2/24 did not know what to get better at in reading Overall the reading profile was very helpful to attain these results as a benchmark for this class. As I had said earlier that it would be great to take the students to the library, I needed to taihoa on that as there are a few management gems to getting to know my students before they go into the peaceful and quiet learning environment. One must persevere and search for topics in science that will engage these learners to read! Like today no one was interested in Seaweek the Ocean or the sea creatures. We discovered all students were interested in Food. And engaged in something they were all familiar in so we played kahoot 75% accuracy Food and Nutrients 55%. It is a start!