Team Inquiry

 This has been updated each term this year. See attached.

AKO 2 TEAM INQUIRY 2023

Literacy Observation

Fleur observed me teaching my accelerant writing group today.

Here is her feedback.

Unpacking TAPASA

Today we unpacked the TAPASA document at staff meeting. This includes competencies in teaching Pasifika learners. There was valuable discussion around all three TURU in relation to our own Pacific Community.
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Room 3 Performing Arts - Mission Possible

My Class performed a play for their parents this evening. It was based around our topic - Mission Possible. A big focus was myths and legends so we re-enacted the Maori Creation Myth. They performed drama, songs and dances.

29 out of 32 students came along with parents who watched. This was great team building for Room 3 and they feel very proud about it.

Bi-Cultural Practice

All students in Room 5 have presented their Mihimihi this term. This has been quite powerful. One Maori boy had his mother come to listen and support him.

Also as part of our home learning, students had this task:

Concept Learning: Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who have Gone Before Us

Watch this video about Maori culture in NZ. Then choose ONE research task below to present in Google Slides.

Sharing will be Friday and each morning next week.

1. Māori Carvings
2. Māori Gods
3. Māori Welcome Customs (such as the Hongi, Powhiri, Mihimihi)
4. Māori Games
5. Māori Kai (cooking and food)

Please do this in your CONCEPT folder.

Has this been completed? YES / NO

Maths Observation - Measurement Lesson

Judith Fromont (AP) observed my maths lesson. I was teaching the Year 5 group a lesson about measuring angles. Here is the feedback:

Judith's Feedback - Measurement Lesson

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....

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

Maths Goals

In the next two weeks my students will show evidence that they have achieved their learning goals in reading, writing and maths.

Having reviewed measurement assessments from last term, a number of children have gaps in this area. I have shared a doc with them into their learning pathways folders on their google drives, informing individuals who need to set measurement or areas within it as their next learning goal in maths.

To help them achieve their goal we will do some class workshops and I will make sure to set measurement learning tasks on mathletics for them to complete in their own time.

Here is a link to the doc I shared with them: Your next learning goal - measurement

Areas of Responsibility

My areas of responsibility are:

Classroom Teaching
Leader of e-Learning
School Website
Liturgical Music
Kapa Haka Group Support
Social Studies Leader