Self Reflection - Hypothesizing and Reflecting

He patai? 

 What’s going on here? Is this what I expected? Is this good? Should I be concerned? Why?/Why not? Do I need to take a closer look? What is it about my practice that I need to have a closer look at?

  Using what I had noticed in Term one and my reflective questions I started forming thoughts of how best to target in my PGC Inquiry. After talking within our Syndicate we discussed our needs within the classes as well was what was do-able. The concern was hanging over us about are we seeing a new Covid low absenteeism hit our school… however in the latter half of Term, we saw a certain group return in a positive mind sense. With this return we created our focus question for our Strategic Goal- forward thinking that our differing PGC will stem from here. Ngā Tipu Atawhai (Years 2, 3 and 4) Increase the reading comprehension levels of 10 students who are at a reading-to-learn stage by embedding and scaffolding identified Manaiakalani best practice strategies into our balanced literacy diet. Breakdown of tamariki 5 girls - 3x Year 3 Maori, 2x Year 4 European. 5 boys - 1x Year 2 Maori, 1x Year 2 Pasifika, 1x Year 3 European, 2x Year 3 Maori

What I hypothesize ...

 The 5 tamariki were chosen because they knew them, and their whanau, well enough to know that they will be back to school after the Covid isolations because they appreciate learning and value education. 

As mentioned these children are the minority, with no behavioral or wellbeing issues, so when they returned they had retained previous knowledge and could fit back into reading lessons with no intensive scaffolding. They are functioning at the end of Level 1 or within Level 2 of the reading curriculum. This TAI became a priority to not only offer extension, creativity and student voice but to give me the teacher an uplift of practice and mana within the very high needs of the mainstream classroom at the present time. The biggest challenge we face like many teachers across Aotearoa is having time to conduct an effective Inquiry. We have a massive workload with our daily teaching, and to be fair, TAI/ PGC is forming only a fraction of the deeper reflections and mental strength we are using every single minute to get our classes to function within the realms of MOE expectations and CRT time. 

Reading is only one small part of core curriculum teaching, however because of our Literacy diet and MK Reading scaffolds, we are multilayering and integrating literacy to make our efforts in front of learners the most effective. 

Questions leading to my next thoughts are: Am I able to do what I set out to do- am I putting too much into reading? Where can I start within what I already have got?