For our week 2 RPI I had to jump in a few days early as we have our year 5 and 6 camp starting this week! So I was very lucky to be able to join the Tuesday crew and learn all about knowing our learners as readers. This has been a really enjoyable session as it has reminded me of some hidden gems in PAT as well as taught me some new things that I am very excited to try out in my classroom over the next few weeks.
Assessment 101
For the start of our session today we look at formal and informal assessment data and how this can lead to more reliable judgement. This was a really great start to reflect on the things that I am doing in the classroom for formal and informal assessment and what I can also add to strengthen this. I do notice things about my students as we are reading and often just keep these in my head rather than writing them down or sharing them with others in my space to read. This got me thinking about out first week of RPI when we talked about modelling books and having somewhere to store this information so that it is shared with others in my team and my release teacher. So that again has been added to the to do list so watch this space!!
Keeping track of learning
We were introduced to the teacher workbook, which upon reflection is a great resource that has been shared and there are so many things that I will take out of this and use for my own tracking and planning. This is also something that I hope to share with my team so that we are all on the same page with our planning and tracking. The assessment part of this workbook is something that I will start using. I have been using something similar however they are all under a range of different tabs so I like the idea of having this all in the same place. I am really excited to use this with my data collection.
Assessment Tools
I really enjoyed this part of the session as it made me think about all of the wonderful things elements that are available with PAT data. I have used some of these areas previously in my inquiry however have forgotten some of the gems that there are. I do really love looking at data and cannot wait to have a look at all of my data in depth in the next few weeks. One thing that I found really cool was being able to look at the class or group as a whole in comparison to the norm. This was something I had not used before and I can't wait to explore it in more detail.
Learning intensions and success criteria
The final part of our session today was looking at learning intentions and success criteria. I really enjoyed using the planning part of the workbook. I currently use sheets but I think the way this has been set out is something that I will implement. It is such a good tool to look across groups and to keep track of students reading ages and levels. I think again this is something that I will trial myself for the rest of the term and see how it goes and if successful will share with the rest of my team for planning next term.
I really enjoyed today's session and getting to meet the Tuesday cohort of RPI teachers. I have definitely learnt a lot and cannot wait until after camp to reset my reading program in my classroom!
