Sally Avern's Professional Journey

Week 25 During Week 1, I shared the action plan with leaders at my school and my students. Week 2 I collected baseline data from my class in terms of giving and receiving feedback, as well as qualitative information on their writing skills. Since Week 1 the classroom culture has been built around supporting learning, as well as the vocab that is necessary for feedback facilitation (what is SC etc).  Week 3 saw the collaborative teacher construction of the format for feedback and the introduction of this format to two groups of students separately. I have not shared my intentions yet with whanau as planned, it is within my job description already that I track data and record lessons for my practice. The only reason I saw to share with these people to have more critical eyes on my teaching and learning.  I do believe in building a supportive learning environment and including parents. Consequently, as Ann Milne suggests, to gain the trust and respect of my...

Here is my Literature Review: Implications of Peer Feedback Information gathered through a recent survey revealed whanau want; more homework for students, easier communication between school and home about day to day learning, as well as more visible learning intentions and artefacts. The main concern for our community leaders (principals, head teachers and facilitators of the Manaiakalani program) is raising achievement across all curriculum areas. Our staff indicated that improved quality of work over time needed to be addressed also. The Manaaiakalani program assists our community in facilitating 1:1 chromebooks in the senior school. In order to meet these needs I propose looking into using peer feedback on blogs to increase writing achievement. Personally,  writing has historically been the hardest thing to teach and starting here will help boost achievement the most, then we will be able to take these reviewing skills across the curric...