RPI Day 3 - Appropriate Text Selection.

 Opening up today's session, we shared our homework tasks. Abby had an excellent example of a comprehensive and extensively planned taskboard, complete with supporting resources. Thankfully, these resources have been shared and briefly explained during today's session. We are now looking at the second pillar of practice:

Using Notes and Google Keep to record transcripts will come in very handy. I think it may help my reluctant writers as well. That is, if it's quick and easy to use for those purposes. I really liked the idea of students making a recording of themselves reading, then transcribing within the app. 

Our Teacher Workbook is starting to make sense as well. Each slide seemed onerous at first, but I can appreciate how it can simplfiy and organise planning and tracking achievement. As I become more The really great resource was the huge Multi text Database. 

My biggest pin for this session comes from Te Mātaiaho:The focus of this strand is on teaching students to decode, make meaning from, and think critically about text. 

RPI Day 2

Much of the morning sessions was about the implementation and use of a tracking sheet called the Teacher Workbook. Exploring the pages within and uploading our class results from our recent PAT tests (scale and stanine), but I must remember to go back and finish transferring my Reader's Survey Results into the workbook. 

Having a good look around the NZCERassist console, exploring what each of the reporting features gives us, has opened my eyes to a much easier way of managing class data and diverse needs. 

Moving forward, I'll spend some time going through these tabs, maybe even using the data to present to learners in small groups, so that we can set better learning goals at this year level. Learning that ARBS activities/suggested next steps are linked within the "Individual Item Report" tab 

is something I'm grateful to have learned today. This will come in very handy for supporting those learners that need extra support. 

Note to self: Once the information overload eases, go back into the workbook to delete the old curriculum tabs (progressions).