Friday 7 April 2017

Let the data tell the story





Maths creditsTotal NCEA creditsTeacher reflection
733
Year 11 students at my school lost NINE timetabled maths lessons in term 1 due to school activities like:

Powhiri practice - 1 period
Powhiri - 1 period
Athletics Day - 2 periods
Teacher only day - 2 periods and
Student Achievement Conferences - 3 periods.

One of the ways to make up for lost TIME would be for students to return to school during the Easter break, do some revision and then sit missed assessments............................. Who was I kidding??

I had to come up with a more believable plan, so I turned to my trusted friend.......DATA.

Term 1 credit protocol at our college is for each learner to get a minimum of 4 credits per subject so that they could end the term on a total of at least 20 NCEA credits. The table on the left, shows our NCEA L1 Maori learners' data, 3 weeks before end of term 1. The credits highlighted in green are my year 11 Maori learners and if you look closely enough you will see that one (11%) of my learners has met term 1 credit protocol compared to nine (20%) school-wide......... I had read a Momentum Quote a few days ago which said "if they can do it, so can you", so I shared this data and the quote with my learners today and it encouraged them to reflect on what we can do differently. With 4 days left to go this term, we hope that sharing the data will get us the desired outcome.











329
427
427
426
025
423
421
021
019
417
417
416
416
414
412
412
412
012
411
410
010
49
48
08
47
46
06
05
05
04
04
04
03
03
03
02
00
00
00
00
00
00
00

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and the quote. I think it's important we make challenges for ourselves as learners, as this is what we expect our students to do every day! I agree there is a lot of time lost to school activities, but we can do our part to try and make up for the lost time. I am wondering how your students are progressing now, nearly half way into term 2?

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