After assessing my students this term, I have found that there is a great need to focus on Reading and Maths for their learning. I have analysed my data and found that most of my students are below their expected achievement level for their year level at the start of this year in Reading and Maths.
After sitting through many 3 Way Conference conversations with my students and their parents, I have also realised that a lot of my students have identified Maths as a subject which is hard for them to achieve in. Through the Gloss test, I identified that many of my students struggled with answering the ratio and proportions questions.
As I have been focussing on Reading in my past inquiries, I feel I have confidence in continuing with what I had learnt from my previous Teaching as Inquiries and implementing these into my classroom programme. Therefore, I plan to tackle the challenges with Maths this year. It is an area I have not focussed on in my Teaching as Inquiry for some years but an area of great concern in my teaching at the moment and it is reflective in my class data and also student voice.
We are a DMIC school and have been doing the problem solving approach at our school before DMIC was introduced to our school in 2020. It will be a great opportunity for me to inquire into how DMIC is helping our students with their learning in Maths and also how our teachers feel about teaching using the DMIC approach.
I have yet to identify what aspect my teaching as inquiry will follow with DMIC and maths this year but this will be finalised soon. I am quite keen to focus on Maths this year as I can see the great need for this inquiry focus with my current cohort of students.
