Thank you for sharing your reflections from Day 2 of the Reading Practice Intensive: Know Your Learners as Readers. I agree that ‘keeping track of learners data’ can initially seem overwhelming (particularly as we are using the Teacher Workbook to do this and it will all be new). However, as you point out, it will be useful to explore ways this may (or may not) compliment your current ways of planning next steps and keeping track of learning for feedback, observation notes and assessing progress over time. The key is how we analyse data to inform learning design, so it would be important to discuss small first steps with your team back at school and grow your optimal data routines from there.
I’m especially interested in how you are getting on with close reading the item report in PAT Assist. Were you able to identify questions learners shared as a challenge? Follow up will include pinpointing aspects of question-answers to diagnose learners’ difficulty and then integrating into planned direct instruction, practice tasks and routines. Were any of the planned task board activities for the Kākāpō, shared challenges you found in your learners’ PAT results?
We are all excited to share and discuss task board designs from the homework and to our collective improvement of reading practice when we dive into ‘text sets’ more deeply next time.
Have a great rest of your week!
Nga mihi Naomi R. Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive
Tēnā koe Mary
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your reflections from Day 2 of the Reading Practice Intensive: Know Your Learners as Readers. I agree that ‘keeping track of learners data’ can initially seem overwhelming (particularly as we are using the Teacher Workbook to do this and it will all be new). However, as you point out, it will be useful to explore ways this may (or may not) compliment your current ways of planning next steps and keeping track of learning for feedback, observation notes and assessing progress over time. The key is how we analyse data to inform learning design, so it would be important to discuss small first steps with your team back at school and grow your optimal data routines from there.
I’m especially interested in how you are getting on with close reading the item report in PAT Assist. Were you able to identify questions learners shared as a challenge? Follow up will include pinpointing aspects of question-answers to diagnose learners’ difficulty and then integrating into planned direct instruction, practice tasks and routines. Were any of the planned task board activities for the Kākāpō, shared challenges you found in your learners’ PAT results?
We are all excited to share and discuss task board designs from the homework and to our collective improvement of reading practice when we dive into ‘text sets’ more deeply next time.
Have a great rest of your week!
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive