Tuakana Teina Data Discussion Day

Today on the Wednesday 2nd March the Kia Manawanui (Senior Syndicate) met for Data assessment meeting looking at current data and discussing target students and how we are going to shift these children to where they should be at by the end of the year.

Today we talked about setting Syndicate Inquiry goals. (Collaborative Team Inquiry Goal).

Refers to Maori and pacific children and children with special needs and children from low income families-priority.

1. Boys writing
2. Girls maths
3. Accelerated progress in the first two years of school

Setting SMART goals for learning.

Priority Learners - priority learners refers to Māori and Pacific students who are not achieving success fully at school; students with special learning needs; and students from low income communities, who are below or well below the literacy and mathematics National Standards.

The focus is on improving outcomes for key priority groups by accelerating their progress. Progress is considered to be accelerated when a student moves from well below to below, at, or above the National Standard, or when the student moves from below the National Standard to at or above. This means that these students need to make more than one year’s progress in a year in order to achieve at the expected level of acceleration.

The children need to know where they should be at and what their goals are.

Goals should be set with an optimum level of challenge for teachers and students

1. low enough to seem achievable
2. high enough to make a real difference

Goals and targets need to create maximum visibility and alignment with the whole school goals.

Mathematics should be done everyday of the week for target children to be able to accelerate in their learning and meet children's target children's goals. 

This data assessment session was very informative for myself. It was really good sitting alongside my team and collaborating and coming to an agreement on our goals for our targeted group and how we would be able to achieve the results and get the children to the level that they should be at.