Ongoing discussion and reflection about data and OTJ

Miss Turner and I regularly have discussions about data and OTJs for our students in our class.  With many of our students being below the NS there is a push to see reflection of understanding in their classroom learning and work.

Writing is a real low point in our class and so writing, and writing for a period of time, has and will continue to be a focus for Term 3.  A lot of our students struggle to write for a period of time.  They struggle to generate ideas and get stumped and just don't write.

Further to this we have given the option to our students to either write on google docs, or in their workbooks.  Funny enough a lot of our lower writers prefer to write on google docs and are able to get their ideas quicker and easier than writing it in a book.  This has been pleasing to see.

We have discussed using more of the ARBs and the PacT tool came up for discussion and would be something that we would both be keen to look into.

Our data is not reflecting it but I believe that we are working hard with our students to try and have them make progress.  We have many discussions about the movement from 'with support' to 'independently' and we feel that many of our students although they may make progress are not moving to that 'independent' work, especially our students at year 8 level.