TUESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2020
GOAL: Have a plan for my teaching as inquiry - what and when - and show what I have done clearly
REALITY:
School inquiry on agentic learning, students being able to describe or show what they are doing and how they are doing it and next steps.
As a big picture we created the school reports which were student and whanau focused. Within that working quite a bit with students to get them think about their learning and next steps. From that starting to hone the SC and task and LI for everything. Through that, getting students to record, video them reflecting on their work - maths or literacy - and then putting that into their reports. I’ve taken down all the levels and exemplars off the windows as they weren’t useful. I want to do that again so it’s more child friendly.
Part of this coincided with a school wide movement to tidy up book work. The folder the kids were using weren’t working so moved to writing books and a deliberate move away from Google docs but used Gdocs to create LI, SC, task and then stick that into every piece of work, but use it as a hands on checklist. Having to count what they’d done in each SC so they knew where they were at and what next steps. INSERT EXAMPLE
Outcome - them being able to describe and demonstrate their learning. Originally I wanted for when Diane or Kaiya to do a walk through, last year when asked what learning they described the task, last walkthrough they actually described the LI and SC. Not sure if they understand or can just describe. I think most of them do have an understanding of where they are and their next steps. They can follow that model now.
I feel like i’ve done a lot but haven’t documented it.
WHY? I’ve seen a dramatic increase in writing success. Supported by being able to see that success, because it is explicit. “Well done, I’ve been able to number how many commas, punctuation marks etc” after an explicit lesson on punctuation. What would be ultimate indicator of success? If they can do this independently without guidance. If I had them for another year I think yes, I could embed this. Difficult to get it embedded by the end of next year.
For the end of year report for all students to have a video reflection in their report. Because it is so much more powerful and valuable than a picture of a piece of work. It's an extra layer of detail. Why is it important for them to be able to reflect and share with their whanau? Because they are sharing that level of their success with their whanau in a new way, which they and their whanau wouldn’t have maybe been exposed to before. I know this from whanau kauri and best evidence. OECD Nature of Learning.
2 ways they can do it - follow board and use First, Next, Then, or follow the green highlighted steps. And say e.g. “I used five commas, et, my next steps are ….” The good thing is they are not just following A success criteria, they are following THEIR SC and evaluated how successful it was.
Maybe next step is honing
It has been teacher directed. If I gave them direction into it they would ask how they can build free time into it.
Do they know why reflecting is valuable/ helpful? They all understand tickled pink, green for growth. They all can talk about their success and next steps.
Something that has had a big impact on this has been the sticks with their names on. They want to be picked. Pretty much every kid can talk about their learning.
NAME CARDS - trying to reduce hands up. Now it is democratic and accountable. Still have choice to say I don’t know/ don’t want to do it. Engagement has gone up.
Do you engineer it so everyone is able to reflect on their learning.? There are lots of ways they can reflect - tickled pink GFG; SC sheet; SC on board; name cards; critical friend traffic lights (4 CARDS - green, amber, red, blue - choose card to start after mini lesson. I see someone has a red. I go and see if I can support to get to orange or green, better if kids see a red and support her. Anyone can support anyone else. Eventually everyone should be orange or green. Blue so confident they can support anyone at any stage.)
OPTIONS:
I could get some input from them - ask them, e.g.: What makes reflecting easy, what makes it hard, what can I do to improve it, what can the teacher do to improve it? Trial this with target students first. Because what works with them works for everyone. This will show me if I am going in the right direction where they are concerned. I want to find out if there is anything that I’ve missed that I can change quickly and easily, or to reinforce what I’ve done already.
I need to continue collecting but I am building up a bank of video evidence.
Do a Google form to find out which of the four ways listed above works best for students.
This will show me if I’m on the right track for agentic learning and what if anything needs to change.
WHAT NEXT:
Present survey to Kauri now
Analyse the data to find out next steps.
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