Inquiry 2023 - Question 1and 2

• Collaborate with your school’s leadership team and    colleagues to identify areas where your inquiry will    make a powerful contribution to wider school and        cluster goals.

Carol - Head of Department - Technology

You inquiry focus will be a massive contribution to the students as it will be raising the level of achievement. The higher levels of achievement are strongly linked to the ability to read and write in depth.

Helping to boost the reading levels will give the students access to more information and higher levels of achievement because of this.

Added value - if the reading improves then the quality of their writing improves too.This ties in with the changes to the NCEA that are happening and starting next year with the Year 11s.

Matt - Manaiakalani

This is a step in the right direction to the new literacy standards and support.

Teaching literacy skills outside of English based subjects is a good thing and shows literacy is important in everything.

It will be helpful to other subject specialist teachers as to where you can use literacy.

If I can come up with ideas / templates / resources - this will be very useful to others.
Chat GPT will be really useful for texts that are specific for my kids to read.

Alby -  Head of English

He loved the fact that my inquiry focus is about literacy and especially reading.

He suggested a focus possibility - jargon - I will need to look at specific words that are subject specific. Students will come across the words in the reading that they have to use in their writing. He said that he has resources that he will share that will help with this.

Talk to Marc - skimming / scanning and prediction stuff - pre and post reading

• From what you know already about your classes and your school’s profile and leadership goals for the year, share a possible inquiry focus.
• Frame your focus as a desired change in student learning NOT a change in teaching.

Mu inquiry focus is linked to school goal 3 :-

Goal 3 Literacy and Numeracy

• By the end of Year 10, 80% of students will be reading at or above the expected level
• By the end of Year 10, 70% of students are writing at or above the expected Curriculum Level.
• By the end of Year 10, 70% of students are achieving in Mathematics at or above the expected Curriculum Level.
• That 90% of Year 11 students will achieve NCEA Literacy.
• That 90% of Year 11 students will achieve NCEA Numeracy.

My students choose DVC thinking that they will draw all of the time. They are always a bit surprised at the amount of written work there is to do. In order to achieve at the higher levels, they must be able to analyse their own work and the work of others.

The students also have to do a lot of research - existing products, materials, production methods, environmental concerns, ergonomics. This research involves a lot of internet searching and reading what they find. This information needs filtering then applying to their own design work. Understanding of what has been read is essential during this process.

The desired change in student learning that I would like to happen this year is for them to have confidence in reading and that they understand what they are reading. This understanding can then be taken through in the application of how they cn use tis information in their own work.