At the BOT forum tonight 6 Col teachers presented their Inquiries. Well done to our presenters you were very informative.
Common theme: - The limited oral language and vocabulary of our students.
Each COL teacher presented on their Achievement challenge - everyone of us talked about how our Inquiries had lead us to realise that our students language levels were significantly impacting their progress across all curriculum areas.
or could not follow instructions with positional concepts.
Lift the achievement for boys' writing - students do not have the vocab to describe and explain.
Lift the achievement in Reading for all students, - students need the confidence and language to share their ideas and the language vocabulary to understand what they are reading.
Here is the next challenge team - how do we accelerate our students language skills?
Watch out for some exciting professional development Sommerville will be offering next term.
Thanks Donna, Agree it was valuable to listen to the group's reflections across the achievement challenges, especially thinking about how each of you approached making changes to your practice and the outcomes for the different year levels and learners. Thinking we need to compare and contrast the strategies further as part of our collaborate inquiry. Well done!
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