NZCER Presentation – Cathy Wylie

NZCER Presentation – Cathy Wylie

Opportunities for learning –

Selection of content, coherence, choice of resources, appropriate to need, the way the tchr talks it up and prepares students.

Perceptions govern behaviour.

Good schools have good teachers.   This is where the shift needs to be.  The data needs to make sense to teachers.

Me and My School Survey

This is designed for teachers to better understand their learners and build their understanding about student engagement.  Using data to improve teachers.

Knowing the perceptions of learners will help teachers better understand what is relevant and meaningful to our learners.

Students will buy in or buy out of the learning within 30secs to 2mins.   They need to see “what’s in it for them” to stay engaged.    

This survey measures student engagement WITH LEARNING:

Behavioural – participation, positive conduct, persistence and involvement

Affective/emotional – teachers, peers, learning and school – how they feel

Cognitive – taking risks, learning challenges, self-regulating learning

Learning is a social construct.  Better done with others than alone.

Agency is something you choose to use – can look different in different settings with different teachers.   Relationships first.  NZC p34/35  Revisit Effective pedagogy in NZC.

We can’t control what happens outside of school.   We can organize our school in response and help our teachers to connect with our learners.

Culturally responsive relationships first.

What do you get with this survey?

Perceived engagement by year school, level. class.  Descriptors which respond to the scale.   Will not get individual student data but can see class to class.

What are our measures of student engagement at Breens?   What would we see how can we measures? We would see children at school, seeking to engage with learning in the classrooms and out of them in extra curricular activities

From BHS

Motivated, engaged and actively participating

Willingness to take risks

Want to succeed

Take pride in learning

Persist

Students understanding where they are at and feeling they are making progress

Revisit the essence statements in NZC.

What does student engagement look like, smell like, feel like in our setting?

Use the NZCER key comps cards to make connections between capabilities and our definitions. 

What capabilities do our children need in order to be able to achieve the key comps/Breens values?

Wellbeing @ School Survey

We are trying to devise and improve a culture of learning.  How can we build learning power?  Guy Claxton’s work.

Culture – how we do things – and coherency with

Climate – how people feel doing it

This tool looks at school as a complex system.  It has three surveys to give a multiple perspective of what is going on. 

School self review tool (good for SLT, Senco, BOT)

Teacher Survey  (this is the interface between SSR tool – the what we what to do and what the teacher perception is)

Student survey with five areas