Year 11-Collaborative Inquiry Question # 1 ,2 &3

Inquiry Question 1

Summarise the challenge of the students learning you plan to focus in this
Collaborative inquiry.

My yearly focus is for students to gain at least 10 credits to get their Numeracy by the end of the year.
In order to achieve this I am using a collaborative approach to ensure a  100% passing rate.
To achieve this there has been the incorporation of culture and practicality to cater for more kenesthetic learners.

There are four Maori, seven Cook Island Maori, nine Tongans, one Samoan, one Tokelauan Maori,
one Indian Maori and one other in the class.

I gathered the following information from KAMAR Tamaki College and I found this very
useful to apply in differentiated teaching to further help students.

My year 11 Class:

First Name	Ethnicity	PAT Stanine 2018	Transformation Geometry (AS91034)	2 Cr
Student 1	Maori	4
Student 2	Tongan	2
Student 3	Niuean	3
Student 4	Cook Island Maori	4
Student 5	Cook Island Maori	3
Student 6	Maori	3
Student 7	Tongan	new
Student 8	Tongan	2
Student 9	Samoan	2
Student 10	Tongan	3
Student 11	other	new
Student 12	Maori, Indian	3
Student 13	Cook Island Maori	3
Student 14	Cook Island Maori	3
Student 15	Filipino	new
Student 16	Cook Island Maori	3
Student 17	Tokuluan maori	new
Student 18	Tongan	3
Student 19	Cook Island Maori	4
Student 20	Tongan	4
Student 21	Tongan	3
Student 22	Cook Island Maori	1
Student 23	Tongan	3
Student 24	Tongan	new
Student 25	Maori	new
Student 26	Maori	ab

The above data shows that the students range from Stanine 2-4.
My challenge will be in figuring out  how to accelerate teaching within a short period.
There are 3 international students struggling with the writing and reading skills
so  Dr. Janni van Hees will help cater to these students next Friday.

Inquiry Question 2

Describe how and why you have selected this challenge of student learning.
Locate your inquiry in the context of patterns of student learning in Manaiakalani overall. 

I used the Woolf Fisher research findings shared with our Manaiakalani Cluster in February
of this year to develop my inquiry in order to shift students in Numeracy.

Raise Māori student achievement through the development of cultural visibility
and responsive practices across the pathway as measured against National
Standards and agreed targets for reading NCEA years 11-13.

Inquiry Question 3

Explain why you judge this to be the most important and catalytic issue of learning
for this group of learners this year (In chemistry, a catalytic substance one 
which increases the speed of a chemical reaction).

The main key to lifting Numeracy is to push reading, comprehension and writing.
I believe that by practicing literacy strategies repetitively it will enable more students to achieve
at least a Merit.
When we work together with teachers to identify common challenges we can analyse data, test and
challenge our instructional approach. This collaboration approach adds motivation and values

However my catalyst issues are:

I am confident that based on CoL  Professional Development from Dr. Janni van Hees ,
the focus on Language will help me unpack my catalyst issues. 

I am very interested in seeing if the students from my focus group are able to grow
in their understanding of unpacking topic rich vocabulary with the goal of improving
literacy and numeracy skills as this topic is an English rich task.

Issues are:

How confident are they with key competencies? Are they managing themselves?

Do my learners really understand the question?

Do they know how to manage time effectively and are consistent with their learning
or are they leaving everything to the last minute?

Do they understand SOLO taxonomy to understand Achieve/Merit/Excellence?

Do they understand PEEL structure to write up to the higher level?

Are they doing enough practice before tackling the real internal?

Are they digitally confident or  do they need more practice on Google drawing?

How can make significant progress in  a year ?