My Inquiry 1 2017

Achievement Challenge 5: 

Improve the achievement of students with additional needs in the learning areas of English/Key Competency using language, symbols, and text.

                               Challenge for Learners 

Junior school: Students struggle to reflect and articulate the connection between the practical and theory elements of Physical education.

Senior School: Students struggle with literacy; report writing and evaluations. Students didn't know how to transfer the literacy skills that they learn in English to a Physical Education context. I find students asking questions like what do we write for an introduction? Miss, can you give me a sentence starter? How do I structure my paragraph when talking about Biophysical principles related to Turbo Touch? Students needed guidance in deconstructing literacy skills learned across other subjects and help with applying the same skills to my subject area.

Questions raised

How do we make this jump a lot seamless? What can we do to equip students at junior school so they are prepared for NCEA PE? With NCEA PE the question is how can I help to improve their Literacy when it comes to reporting and evaluations, with the overall goal of achievement but achievement at Merit and Excellence.

Desired Outcome
Students are able to transfer literacy skills across all subject areas resulting in higher achievement in subject areas that offer literacy credits.
Students will understand the importance of Literacy as a tool for improvement in their achievement across all learning areas.
Students are able to make the connection between practice and theory and be able to reflect on this via Evaluation and Reflections.

My Inquiry
My inquiry is based on strengthening the literacy skills in Junior PE so they are prepared for NCEA PE. Building on this foundation In NCEA 1,2,3 the aim is to improve Literacy with the overall goal of achievement but achievement at Merit and Excellence.