Teaching as Inquiry Term 1 and 2

Here are links to my inquiries:

Spiral of Inquiry Term 1 2016

Spiral of Inquiry Term 2, 2016

Literacy Observation

Fleur De Farias (DP) observed my writing lesson today.

Here is her feedback

PLD on Digital Literacy Tues 14 June

Today's PLD lead to some great staff discussion about our digital footprint and the "deep" web which tracks what we search for and our personal information. This is in deed a learning curve for guiding our students to be discerning users of digital technologies. We reflected on what skills students need to be digitally literate - in any class there is a wide range of digital and literacy capabilities. Something I will try with my class is the fake website lesson to encourage them to evaluate internet information critically. Something else I will aim to do more is to encourage children to only use diagrams and images that are "labelled for resuse" in their slideshows and reports. Here are the slides from today....

e-Leaders South Learning Hub Meeting

At today's e-Leaders meeting we explored digital literacy and the skills students need to research and use the internet ethically. I prepared a PREZI around this topic with a group of other e-Leaders. Suggestions for useful classroom tools today were KAHOOT and QUIZZIZ for generating and competing in online quizzes around our learning topics. Angie (our facilitator) will try these with some of St. Joseph's students next Tuesday. Once I trial it I will recommend to the staff as a tool for learning and put on our student intranet.

Learner Agency - self-monitoring in writing

Students will be aiming to achieve their writing goals or to work on next steps by using the rubrics which are up in the wall in Room 5.

Learner Agency

On Tuesday we had a webinar for our staff meeting with Karen Boyes around learner agency.

One thing that resonated with em was the need for more self-onitoring by the students, so I have designed some rubrics - "ladders of success" - for students for this term's maths and concept. I have also shared these with my team.

I will put them on the wall in Room 5:

Mult / Div Ladder to Success

Stage 4 I can do most basic multiplication and division (basic facts up to 10x and 10÷) but still need to improve my speed and recall.	Uni-structural
Stage 5 – E6 I am beginning to use my basic facts recall and my number knowledge about multiplying 10s so that I can use one strategy to multiply for a problem such as 6 x 28, and one strategy to divide for problems such as 43 ÷ 6	Multi-structural
Stage 6 I have achieved stage 5 AND.. I can use more than one strategy to solve mult/div problems such as 5 x 96  or 116 ÷ 6	Relational
Stage E7 I can use more than one strategy to solve a mult/div problem, such as 12 x 25 or 112 ÷ 8 AND I can choose which one works best	Extended Abstract

Earth Science Ladder to Success

I know one thing about each sphere of the Earth.	Uni-structural
I know several things about each sphere of the Earth.	Multi-structural
I know several things about each of the Earth’s spheres and I understand how they interact (rely on one another or affect one another) – making connections!	Relational
I can make several connections between Earth’s spheres and predict how disasters in one sphere impact on other spheres, as well as evaluating and investigating the importance of the relationship between the spheres (what might happen if one didn’t have the other?).	Extended Abstract