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Monday, 5 August 2019

Hunches

Do teachers teach a reading program that teaches to the student's needs or to the curriculum requirements? We are so used to using resources in the school we forget about what we can get online. Do teachers not trust online material? Do I need to work with teachers on real and fake material online? Do I need to gather student voice on their thoughts and ideas on the different types of reading material they like to read?  Has anyone asked them?
That could be a major solution to a lot of classroom teaching. Are we asking and involving the students in the planning? Whanaungatanga


Inquiry

After looking and listening to the feedback from the WOLF Fisher researchers there was a
need to increase the reading in the Te Hiku Cluster. So as a facilitator in the classrooms weekly for an hour How could I introduce some of the great resources and ideas the researches have suggested? Would they help build students understanding of the cyber smart curriculum? Where we challenging students with sophisticated texts?
So for my inquiry, I wanted to repurpose our cyber smart curriculum to model good reading strategies.
I have looked through some of Aarons Wilson and Rebeccas Jesson's ideas. Read some of their research.
They talk about the importance of developing a more sophisticated reading of complex texts They wanted students to read, talk about and engage with a fairly narrow important set of ideas with a range of texts. Which they refer to as the T-shaped model for literacy instruction. In their T-shaped literacy teaching model, the horizontal bar represents the wide reading of multiple related texts whereas the vertical bar represents close reading and dialogue focused on important and specific aspects of the texts.



Term 4 Toolkiit

I decided in the school holidays to do a workshop around interactive whiteboards. With Jamboards being deleted on December 31 2024. Dece...