I was reminded that making learning visible is so important. In Team 4 (Year 4 - 6 students) we have a shared site where all students have access to their learning tasks for literacy, numeracy and other subjects. This allows greater self efficacy for our students who can access their learning, anytime, anyplace and anywhere.
What did I learn that could improve my capability and confidence in teaching reading?
I learnt that I needed to keep working on improving my literacy timetable and to stay consistent when seeing groups of students. I also realised that I needed to use some of the apps more effectively e.g. EPIC. I had been using EPIC as a free choice for reading tasks, rather than utilising the resources on EPIC more effectively and assigning reading to my students. There are many resources that relate to other curriculum areas on the site.
I also signed up my literacy class today for Literacy Planet which is another useful app. I could also make better use of the tracking sheets to monitor student completion of work.
What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
The writing practice and examples to inspire writing for students was excellent. I appreciated the practical lessons around how to use text to inspire narrative writing. The time spent on collaborating with my break out group to find texts that might inspire different sentence starters for writing was useful.
What did I learn that could be shared within my wider community, with either colleagues, or whānau/aiga?
I will share the literacy apps with my colleagues. Some are using them already, but I intend to have a discussion with my team about using them more effectively. I will also share the ideas around using texts that the students read during literacy to inspire writing if the teachers in my team are not already doing so.
