Appraisal Goals

As the year winds down I guess it's time to start looking at the goals I set for myself at the start of the year.

1) Successfully participate and complete Reading Recovery Training to support target students across classes, colleagues and our own class practice.

The Reading Recovery Training that I have got this year has been really beneficial to both my reading recovery students and our class students. I have seen all my students, so far, on Reading Recovery be successfully discontinued. Even my most challenging student is now looking as though she will be successfully discontinued by the end of the year. Within our class programme, I have had more students meet the after 1 year reading and writing standards than before. The main teaching techniques that have crossed over from reading recovery to my classroom techniques are probably the prompts that I use to encourage students to become more self

2) Create successful programmes to accelerate and engage students collaboratively with Tara and Petera in all curriculum areas linking to the NZC, with a particular focus on target students in literacy and social/emotional skills.

This year I feel that we have successfully accelerated and engaged students across the curriculum. We have had great results in reading and writing, with very encouraging 6 year observational surveys. We have also seen some great achievements in maths. Our inquiry this term has been the most engaging as it's been very student led. The topics have been changing quickly and the students are really loving the opportunity to ask all their "I wonder" questions. We have also been using our developmental play in the afternoon to model and develop social/emotional literacy. There has been an improvement in the amount/intensity of aggressive behaviour by some students.

3) Collaboratively record anecdotal notes around students' ongoing learning and progress to guide and support further learning and to provide evidence when reporting back to parents and colleagues with a particular focus on target students.

We have been using our modelling books mostly for this. Although we've tried to do this digitally, it has been difficult to keep it up to date as we go for some lessons - particularly writing. We do use digital tracking of more formal assessments effectively.