Focusing Inquiry: Know your students
What literacy knowledge and skills do my students have in Technology?
Use multiple sources of information to determine the focus of your inquiry – student voice, assessment information, diagnostic tasks.
- Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning e-asTTle
This is a norm-referenced online tool for assessing reading achievement relevant to levels 2–6 of the curriculum. It provides national norms of performance for students in years 4–12.You may wish to discuss the implications of asTTle results for your learning area with the Literacy Leader in your school.
- Subject resources related to NCEA assessments
are available - click on the relevant subject page.
What literacy knowledge and skills need to be developed?
- The Literacy Learning Progressions
describe the specific literacy knowledge, skills, and attitudes that students draw on in order to meet the reading and writing demands of the curriculum. Teachers need to ensure that their students develop the literacy expertise that will enable them to engage with the Technology curriculum at increasing levels of complexity.
Teaching Inquiry: Planning to meet student needs
How can literacy learning needs be addressed in the teaching and learning programme?
- The Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy Instruction
provide teachers with a framework for literacy inquiry and outlines the principles of effective literacy instruction.
- Making Language and Learning Work 3: Integrating Language and Learning in Years 5-8 is a DVD that shows how teachers can effectively integrate content-area teaching and language learning. This DVD includes a section on literacy and Technology. Copies of this DVD were sent to schools and further copies can be obtained from Down the Back of the Chair
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- Units/lesson sequences
based on Technology (and other) curriculum objectives, designed or re-designed for English language learners.
- Applications Series: Notes for teachers
- The Applications series is intended for use with students in years 9–11. It presents scientific and technological information within the context of narratives that reflect real-life problems and experiences. This approach supports the development of language across the curriculum.
Literacy in the Technology Classroom
: This power point from Aaron Wilson outlines some of the literacy demands in technology and uses the Techlink case study about Te Rewa Rewa Bridge
to demonstrate effective literacy teaching practices.
How does research inform my inquiry?
How will progress be monitored?
Your inquiry will determine the ways in which progress should be monitored. For example, you may decide to monitor progress through student writing, oral responses, research skills and/or presentations.
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Teaching and Learning
The Guidelines for Effective Adolescent Literacy Instruction
outlines the principles of effective literacy instruction.
Learning Inquiry
- What happened as a result? Assessment is the process of gathering, analysing, interpreting and using information about students' progress and achievement to improve teaching and learning. Refer to Assessment Online
- What are the next steps?
