Accelerating Spelling 2020

 This year Rāwhiti School held Professional Learning Groups to help support our independent teaching goals.

Below is my reflection of my goal to accelerate spelling for Year 5 and 6's.

Interlead Appraisal Reflection 2020

Student Appraisal

Student Comments

What this person does well.

- Dad jokes.
- At making us do more work, help us understand sometimes
- being a teacher
- make people laugh, roasts people ahah also is good at being a teacher
- Making us do hard work and most of the time helping us when our work is hard.
- help people
- Making us do more work!
- yes.
- hes super kind and helps us
- Helps me

What this person could do better.

- More dad jokes.
- ???????????????
- nothing
- GO ON FUN TRIPSSSSSSSSSSS
- make the work easier for me.
- make more sense
- Explain better!
- do more sports.
- no.
- not much at all
- yes

Peer Appraisal

Other Appreciative Feedback:

- "Eugene enjoys experimentation and actively looks for innovative ways to move forward. He is skilful with IT and is interested in using new apps and technology. He encourages and helps his team mates to try these out,pointing out their potential for learning. He is willing to give up his own time to help and is patient during the learning process. "

- "Consistently contributes as part of the team solving issues and supporting the school to move ahead and challenges those who are more autonomous to do the same. Eugene is always helping his team to problem solve issues or come up with new ideas. His contribution to DMIC supports the school to move forward in this area."

- "Thank you Eugene for often supporting next steps in my own learning. I appreciate that you give that valuable time (after school) for reflective practice which often prompts new thinking and direction. "

Other Developmental/Coaching Feedback:

- "Eugene consistently contributes as part of the team solving issues and supporting the school to move forward. He is now beginning to appreciate this as leadership, particularly in his role with the impementation of DMIC and his confidence is growing. Taking advantage of these opportunities to show leadership, particularly in areas where he shows high interest will ensure his continued development."

- "Consistent flexibility, attentive to new situations as they emerge. Eugene is very flexible but this is an area he could try and stretch further. "

Self Appraisal

Key takeaways:

• Students generally believe I am proficient at communication
• Students enjoy my sense of humour
• They recognise that I have high expectations for their work
• I support them in their learning
• My colleagues think I contribute regularly
• I am willing to try new methods of teaching and tools to support learning outcomes
• Willingness to step into leadership positions

Next steps for 2021

• Moderate my humour
• Make explanations and models clearer to understand
• Be more flexible when situations change
• Be more attentive in the studio to support colleagues

Summative Statement

As usual, my assessment of my abilities is lower than my peers. This happens every year. 

Working in Tāne Mahuta this year, I have regularly contributed to studio discussions, plans and decision making. I am proud of the work we did during lockdown with our digital learning, and the brief experiment with student self-directed literacy learning we had late in Term 2. I hope that we can build on this in 2021. 

I am also proud of the learning journey I took a cohort of students on for our inquiry learning about local ecologies. We started by visiting our outstanding natural environment to engage the students. They learnt about the diverse eco-systems at New Brighton Beach and Travis Wetlands with the support of the Christchurch City Council. Each student then focused on one organism found in one ecology. Their research and writing were used to create a website to educate the wider community.

https://sites.google.com/rawhiti.school.nz/our-new-brighton-ecologies/home

Next year I would like to have more student choice in their learning in Tāne Mahuta, and systems set up to support this. I need to communicate more clearly with my students. To help this I would like more opportunities to observe my colleagues.