Col T4 #1

Language in Abundance

Dr. Jannie Van Hees

Complex language needs complex understanding,
which requires analytical depth,
which NEEDS unpacking...

Meaning-Making demands...

• Prior knowledge
• Connections
• Extended vocab
• Context understanding rather than fluency

Manaiakalani Inquiries

1. Summarise the challenge of student learning you focused on in this inquiry

2. Describe how and why you first selected this challenge of student learning at the beginning of your inquiry

3. Describe the tools/measures/approaches you used to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that challenge. Justify why you chose these approaches and tools.

4. Summarise your key findings about the nature and extent of the student challenge i.e. using your baseline student data and evidence.

5. Describe the main hypotheses you developed about factors that might contribute to this problem of student learning (e.g. particular features of teaching or out of school practices that were not as effective as they might be).

6. Explain why you hypothesised that these factors would contribute to the student learning problem. Give reasons and refer to professional readings, colleagues and experts you consulted etc.

7. Explain how you tested your hypotheses about factors that might contribute to the problem of student learning e.g. observations of teaching, student voice about out of school practices

8. Summarise your key findings about possible causes of the problem of student learning identified in the profiling phase i.e. present your baseline data and evidence about teaching and other factors that affect student learning

9. Describe in detail the intervention you designed to address the student learning problem i.e. exactly what did you plan to change? Be specific about actions, timelines etc.

10. Explain in detail your theories about why that intervention would positively impact on the problem of student learning (i.e. explain the causal chain you theorised).

11. Describe in detail the sources of information you drew on to design your intervention (e.g. readings, courses, people).

12. Give specific examples of how you monitored the effectiveness of your intervention and made adaptations as you went along

13. Summarise evidence about key changes in teaching and other factors that influence student learning.

14. Summarise evidence about key shifts in the problem of student learning

15. Write an overall evaluation of your intervention in terms of the causal chain you had theorised. i.e. To what extent was the intervention successful in changing factors such as teaching? To what extent were those changes in teaching effective in changing patterns of student learning?

16. Write a reflection on your own professional learning through this inquiry cycle

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As my 2year T.I rapidly comes to a conclusion at GIS I am left in awe and wonder at the direction it has taken, the gains it has made and the impact it has had on the community, the students and myself. There have, and are, personal and professional disappointments at the lack of depth in understanding, inequity, appreciation and buy-in from my colleagues but these "pits" become insignificant in comparison to the 'mountain tops' of promise...

From...

READING TOGETHER >

STORY SACKS >

READING TOGETHER (ii) >

M.O.E PELP >

KETE TALANOA'S

...resulting in ACCELERATED PROGRESS (for my x6 target students) I could not have written this ending as I began my journey into the unknown by not knowing.

By believing and trusting, by having faith and hope, by looking and searching, by listening and hearing, by working and striving, by patience and perseverance, by doing all of this and so much more of this with love and compassion I have facilitated success - #itsneveraboutme!

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HC GIS T.I 2017/2018 EVALUATIVE RESULTS COMING WK 5