Students Reflection

Throughout term 2 I had been supporting my learners to do self-reflection using De Bono hats. Reflection is about students becoming aware of their own thinking processes. It helps my learners think of the learning tasks in front of them and to reflect after completing the task.

However, this has become laborious tasks to some of my learners. It was obvious they need more support and had to re organize and re- arrange how I do the reflection.  

Reflection

Term 2 struggles

My learners are very causal about learning. I reflect on myself, on what do I do that let my students behave this way.  They are worse on my release day. At times, I felt so depressed hearing the behaviour problems. I have expectation in place. We have a class treaty. We have  Aiga group and motivate them through point systems. It does not sustain behaviour. I decided to find out from learners. So I created a survey to find out. It is evident from the survey that students want to learn and be focus. So we have Nu’u meeting and discuss expectation and routine in the learning space. Click here for the survey.

Gathering Evidence

Sharing with Parents

Can’t leave parents participation to chance.

I invited my parents to our learning space. I put out this statement for discussion.

“Help me to empower your child to act on his/her learning.”

I have 35 learners - 32 families.

22 families turned up to our sharing evening on the 2 March. Every parent was able to share on how can we support our students to have power to act on their learning.

It was a buzzing evening, where parents and students talked about LEARNING

According to Y. Kim / Educational Research Review 4 (2009) 80–102 the parents in the school as an important factor in children’s academic achievement,

Learn

Gathering Evidence

From the data feedback from Wolf Fisher and the result of PAT test in week 3 of term 1, I analysed my learners' results and referred to NZCER - Student Over Time Progress Report. This has given me a clear path for supporting them.  It was a very powerful tool for discussion with the learner.  They can see the trend. Learners understand the learning journey.

As TKI  stated that the prime owners of assessment data are the students, and that sharing the data enables students and teachers and parents to work in partnership to improve teaching and learning

This information helped me to keep a close monitor of learners that are at the boarder line.

COMPREHENSION

	Below	Need close monitor	Confidently At	Above	Total students in Year level
Year 8	4	9	1	1	15
Year 7	5	4	3	2	14
Year 6			2	1	3

STAR

	Below	Need close monitor	Confidently AT	Above	Total students in year level
Year 8	4	8	4		16
Year 7	6	4	6		14
Year 6		1	2	1	3

MATHS

	Below	Need close monitor	Confidently AT	Above	Total students in year level
Year 8	1	10	5		16
Year 7	6	5	4		15
Year 6			2	1

Example of student progress report.