The Power of Inclusiveness Google Site

Click here to view my Google Site filled with tips, tricks and resources to help inclusive practice in the classroom. 

Data Collection Term 3

With the return to level 2, back to school we go. With only a three weeks until we head into the school holidays there is a lot to do. 

Lockdown did give me that elusive thing called TIME to continue to work on my Google site, the finish product of this inquiry but I have to be honest I have not done as much mahi as I should have before lockdown hit in terms of data collection for my inquiry... time to get busy! 

Data collection has always been a challenge for me during this inquiry, how do you collect data on how effective instructions are? How can you tell if the students understand these instructions?  Earlier in the year I interviewed a large group of students across a range of learning needs, I have documented their responses. My next steps are to get the students in our team to fill out a Google form and answer 5 questions all about instructions and compare the responses with the students I interviewed in Term 1. 

The questions for this google form formulated by some year 5 students in our team.

As part of my inquiry I have been working with a group of students with specific learning needs in reading throughout the year. Adapting their multimodal reading slides and making changes around instructions to see if makes a difference. Here is one reading slide I have adapted for a student with severe dyslexia with a reading age of 6.5-7 years, PM reading level 11. In this particular reading slide we had a new student so I ask him to support him in how to use the reading slide. Like any student he loves being a helper and was proud to be sharing his knowledge with another student.  

Next is to do a PM assessment on the reading groups I have been working with this year and compare the results to the mid year data. Exciting times ahead. Better get busy... 

MK Toolkit Session

In this Toolkit session I learnt how to use Mote within a Google Form not only for hearing the questions but to leave a response. I love Mote and use it all the time, especially in the multi model slides I create for reading. It's supportive for all but a real gem for the many tamariki that have a learning barrier. It allows the student to hear the instructions or the questions as many times as they like and they can record their thinking without getting caught up in the mechanics of writing. essentially removing barriers for their learning and empowering student agency. I was super excited to learn more ways I can use this extension. 

 Cheryl's session was so informative with little tips and tricks to improve the use of Mote and the many different ways you can use it. I enjoyed learning how you can view the responses from your Google Forms in Google Sheets and how you can track who has seen it and responded in your Mote activity & engagement folder.  

 

I am looking forward to using Mote in a Google form in our curriculum program. I  have started creating a bank of self assessments for the tamariki to do at the end of our Natural Disaster inquiry. I think it will be great to change it up a bit as we tend to use our trusted and known Google extensions and apps

. Mote is so user friendly and fast. If you haven't tried it... you must. It's great.