My inquiry for 2024
For my Growth Cycle inquiry for 2024, I decided to revisit one I did previously. This is to incorporate extended discussions within reading through Reciprocal Teaching. My reasoning behind this is to accelerate students' overall comprehension of multimodal texts, therefore building students' communication skills. My focus is on developing their ability to explain and justify their thinking, elaborate on their ideas, and build richer communication skills and comprehension.
Target students
My target cohort is a small group of students who are at their expected level for reading. I chose these students as I feel they lack some of the communication skills required to progress more and that it is holding back their ability to confidently move ahead.
I also strongly believe these particular students will pick up the reciprocal teaching strategies quickly and we should soon see positive results. These students will then be able to become mentors within the class to help establish reciprocal teaching and extended discussions with their peers.
How will I document this journey?
Throughout this inquiry, I will utilise the use of IRIS to record reading sessions. The first recording will be a baseline. A video for me to reflect on and plan from and eventually compare back to when looking for signs of progress. I expect the first recording in particular to contain a lot of off-task conversations while students are learning their new roles.
