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