Identify informal and formal ways you are monitoring the effects of your changed practices/intervention on learner outcomes. Explain the reflections and tweaks you are making along the way.
My Inquiry: Will Teacher Collaboration improve student engagement and raise their achievement?
In my team, we reflected on our collaboration and mid-year results. Have we managed to lift our students' engagement and achievement due to the change we've implemented in our planning? The short answer is yes; however, we also developed a shared understanding of our next steps: bring student agency on board and refine our planning.
Since the beginning of my inquiry, we have developed a habit of ongoing reflections on our practice. It now happens naturally, almost every day when we share what worked well and what needs to be improved. We act faster and are not afraid to give feedback about each others' work. I believe that our professionalism helped us develop a healthy collaborative partnership in our team.
Some tweaks that we did since the beginning of my TAI:
- introduced and unpacked maths matrixes with our learners. This allowed them to take ownership of their independent learning choices.
- our next step was to provide our students with choices to support their independent meaningful learning. As a result, we designed our maths and literacy choice boards that our students love to use.
- redesigning our planning template to make it easy to use by all stakeholders: team members and our learners. We all now know what to do and when.
Monitoring the effect:
- Many of our students developed self-motivation. Many ask for maths homework as they want to improve their results.
- I let students choose to join different groups to deepen their understanding of current topics (maths) and many of them love having more freedom in their learning.
- Students across all 3 classes are getting the same consistent programme and are less dependent on individual teachers' knowledge of maths.
- My team appreciates our collaborative approach as it helped them improve their own knowledge of the curriculum. We also bounce ideas from each other, taking and implementing the best of them.
- mid-year Data showed progress and some acceleration in our students' achievements across the syndicate.
