The 9th, and final day, of the Reading Practise Intensive was just as informative as the others. My big takeaway and challenge was around feedback and feedforward.
More specifically, am I providing my students with effective feedback and feedforward. Currently most of my feedback is done verbally, however this isn't rewindable for the students. One of the barriers to giving written feedback is the time it takes to access the students work to then leave a comment. My next step is to set up a system where this can be done in a way that is systematic yet sustainable.
Another point of interest was getting students to share what they are reading and working on with their whanau. I like the idea of getting the students to talk with a family member about their reading as part of a follow up task, for example,
"Responding to a discussion point from the week’s text(s) Talk to a family member about a time when… Record your response on this slide".
I suspect (hope) having it included in the follow up task will increase the likelihood of it happening. It's also reasonably simple and easy to do but nevertheless includes whanau.
Over the next few weeks I will give my student's the same reader survey I gave them at the start of the year. It will be interesting to see the results and how they compare. Watch this space.
