Assessment:
Formative (Sharing results with learners, getting them to pick their next learning goal)
+ Summative (Using data to make a judgement for reports) = more reliable judgement
These assessments can be used formatively and summatively - PAT Pānui/ Running Record / Reading Skills Record / Connected Text/ e-asTTle/ Noticings/ Body language/ Collaborative discussion/ Surveys and Pre/post tests
Teacher Content Knowledge
Being so busy with the maths curriculum, I’ve only had a quick look at the Literacy curriculum. Great to see Oral Language, Reading, and Writing becoming the ‘Strands’ - very similar to the Maths NZC, with a common practice model built in. Hopefully, the curriculum document will be used consistently across NZ classrooms.
Awesome to see vocabulary really being unpacked, especially how to teach it, including the meaning of word parts (morphology). That’s exactly how I learned, and I know how important it is to support comprehension.
Important to use LI and SC to raise assessment capable learners, empower students by teaching reflection and setting next steps
Data treasure hunt - what a great activity to make sense of PAT data and make connections to the NZC teaching sequences.
Tracking Reader Survey Profiles - very important
Reading for pleasure is now PART of the curriculum!
Analysing report data and Moving forward: Use the PAT questions to identify next steps and provide good practice opportunities for students (practice multi choice, identify distractors - build their reasoning skills, strategies to reread the question, look for important information, teach a range of comprehension skills, vocabulary and background knowledge)
Teaching Sequences in the NZC, LI and SC
Activity where we explored teaching sequences and how to convert them to Li and SC for our learners.
Final thoughts: I really enjoyed today’s learning. All the aspects we covered are so practical, just like pieces of a puzzle coming together to create a comprehensive literacy programme for our learners. Often, teachers don’t get PLDs like this to unpack different types of assessment, including dispositions. Personally, I don’t think I even saw a PAT report until my fourth year of teaching! Obviously, I was using other sources of assessment data... but wow, what a gap that was!
We got to dive in and explore the curriculum, resources, and assessment by doing - such a great approach, and exactly how people learn! The resources we were gifted are brilliant and will definitely support teachers with practical implementation. Reflecting on my classroom practice, as well as my TL and BT mentor roles, I’m really impressed with the new curriculum and the RPI take on it. It’s going to make planning and teaching so much clearer for our young colleagues…and not just for them:) I love that ‘reading for pleasure’ is now part of the curriculum.
I also love the RPI taskboards - such a great way to structure learning while giving students the right balance of explicit teaching, guidance, independence and ownership over their reading. I can see these being incredibly helpful and practical in the classroom!
Kia ora Elena
ReplyDeleteGreat to have you join us on Wednesday for RPI Day 2: Knowing Your Learners as Readers! I have really enjoyed reading another of your comprehensive professional blog posts and to hear that you found the day to be useful, especially for a dive into the new English curriculum: as you say, with your head being so much in Maths recently, it is useful to have the time and space to close read. Like you I am also thrilled to see that Reading for Pleasure has pride of place as an element!
It’s also rewarding to hear that you appreciated the opportunity to further dive into specific PAT Pānui test questions and to diagnose next-steps learning. Like you, we find that teachers have not had the opportunity to do this in context and that they find the exercise to be really enlightening.
It was good to hear that despite being an experienced practitioner you still found some nuggets to take away from the sessions on Assessment Capable Learners, Te Mātaiaho, and the PAT Deep Dive. I really look forward to your future insights on how the Teacher Workbook can be gainfully used without doubling up on planning, and keeping the Class Site a focal point for teaching and learning.
Looking ahead to you joining us for Day 3, and any insights you can bring to the Homework review, given examples you can bring from your many years experience as such an effective teacher of reading (and literacy more broadly)!
Nga mihi nui!
Naomi R.
For the RPI Facilitation Team