Evaluating the impact and Re-evaluate the Plan Term 3

My Inquiry Question:

Will having a Strucutred Literacy focus in Instructional Reading , handwrtitng and Writing time help assist our learners with high learning needs show growth in attitiude, engagment, and data results

 A very busy yet rewarding term.

For me, evaluating the impact has come from a range of sources- colleagues and children which is truly exciting.

I feel that I have reviewed my delivery and my resources, in particular reading with the help of Rtlit. I needed to

revisit my reading as I felt that because I was starting the journey with Jo and following her lead- then I took

some big risks and started asking more questions of myself and what my students needed from me during the

reading time.

So our reading was quite textbook- far enough as we are following the script! However I feel these tactile and

lower learners need more hands on visuals that could extend their oral language. I also needed to link in

Handwriting better as the neatness I saw in HW wasn't coming through. 

I feel that I kept the high expectations of each lesson the same and the structure of the lessons the same as the

learners of high needs needed that routine.

My colleagues who I have spoken to seemed very happy with what I was implemented and have been

testing  and especially RtLit-where all her children have improved. Whaea Jane who is such an amazing learner- also has been in and said YES to what I have changed.I will love to get feedback from Whaea Kasey ingards to how she feels about our Literacy programme- is it easy to follow, is it fun, are the children engaged, can she see engagement, can she see oral languge linking to written?

Just so proud of the children over these past weeks... they have just hit the ground running. Yes we have our core group of children who require teacher assistance daily - and that is fine- but they still are hitting those expectations of our Reading and Writing program.

This term we have got a small extentsion group working with Whaea Jane in Writing time.

In Reading I am still fiddling around with our CRACK the CODE activities and this is version 10! I am looking to intergrate S,G,G with our reading as to promote the correct formation of letters. In the blank boxes  I am thinking tick tick tick (like YS teaching method) as so the children can see that instant yes I got it..something to work with.

I was proud to present my mahi to the Board-showing the high importance of having high teacher pedagodgy around effective, data driven  and up to date practice in the classroom- and how this combined will shift the low academic levels we are seeing in our Junior/ Middle classrooms.