Designing my intervention for 2022

Where am I at now?

I have been working in the classes in my school and observing how the students are learning in reading. I have also had conversations with teachers about their reading programme and what their strengths and challenges are. 

I do not have my own class this year which is something very different for me. I did think of having a sample of students from a class in our school to be my sample but decided against this because it will not be consistent TAI if I am not consistency working with the students on daily basis. I then reflected and decided to focus my TAI on working with a group of teachers in our senior school to collaborate with them to plan and implement a reading programme which I hope will accelerate the reading progress of our students. 

What is my focus on this inquiry?

Mentor/coach/support teachers to plan and implement reading programmes which will accelerate the reading progress of their target students.

Share resources with teachers to build their pedagogical knowledge.

Have korero/talanoa sessions with teachers to reflect on their practice and make plans for changes needed to improve their practice.

Co-construct a reading programme with teachers which accelerates the reading progress of our students and share this programme with all the teachers in our school/cluster. 

Have I developed a profile of the sample in my inquiry?

I have identified the teachers I will be working with. I have sent them a google form to gather their thoughts/ideas about their teaching of reading. This will be my baseline data for this inquiry.

Once I have collated the information from the google form, I will then have one to one discussions with each teacher about their responses. 

Have I generated hypotheses about what I will do (actions) to shift the teaching of the teachers who will be in my sample group? 

My focus for this inquiry is to work with teachers to analyse their current practice in teaching reading and mentor/coach teachers to plan and implement a reading programme which focusses on T Shaped Literacy.

 I also want to strengthen the involvement of whanau/aiga in the learning of students in reading. 

I would like to look at the texts chosen for student learning and activities which the students engage with in their reading programmes.