MEETING 1: NAIL @ WOW
Intended outcomes:
- Introductions
- Review Methodology
- At least 2 teachers volunteer to undertake a pilot case study
- Student survey form created
- Semi-structured Teacher Interview tool created
WHEN: September 18th: 9am - 11am.
WHERE: WOW Boardroom, Quarantine Road, Stoke.
RESOURCES: Prior to our meeting you were provided with the following resources:
WHAT: Rachel Bolstad is from NZCER and she has a great deal of experience in conducting surveys and interviews as part of her research. She is coming to work with us to help us to create a valid, reliable and ethical survey tool and teacher interview tool.
Hello everyone,
We hope you had the chance to play, rest and reflect over the holidays. We are looking forward to continuing our explorations together this term. Going into meeting 1 we were well aware we had set the group a pretty lofty agenda to get through in just a few hours and it sure felt good to make the most of th e time we had together.
Our priority was to ensure you all left with a sense of direction, a readiness to move forward and sense of belonging to NAIL.
With Rachel's guidance, we spent much of our meeting thinking and circling around various methodologies for collecting student and teacher voice for our project that were both purposeful and valuable. “Think about how as a group we will shape the process so that is meaningful.”
- How would we collect your own experience and questions along the way?
- How could you collect your own thinking/reflection/data/record our own experience and learning?
- We could use/modify NZCER National Survey to monitor where our thinkings are at onset and how this may change over the course of the project.
- We could use mediated conversations- 2-3 teachers invited to discuss/describe examples from their own practice which resemble successful pedagogy. As a group we can see what themes arise from mediated conversations.Guided questions to be developed and sense check these.
- Collect own reflective data where you periodically address a couple of questions to yourself. “are my class engaged, disengaged, what is not working etc.. over a period of time.
“Traps can be trying to ask too much...making for a very complex survey where you end up with data you don’t use.”
- How could you collect student perception/thinking? Invite students to participate and work with us?
"Students are our collaborators in this inquiry…..we have the chance to collect teacher voice and question the assumption that we know what the student voice is….time to dig a little deeper….it should be about what the students think”
- Exit tickets- end of lesson questions to gather perceived value by the student.
- Survey
- Focus groups/semi structured discussion- use a questions to capture opinions/thoughts to see what patterns or themes emerge. Often can capture richer data this way.
We said we would do some thinking and generate some good fodder for our next meeting by:
- Creating a form for collecting teacher voice and posting it on the blog for discussion
- Generating some draft questions for collecting student voice and post these on the blog for discussion.
- Emailing you all to facilitate and encourage you to give some rich feedback and reflection to help refine the questions for use this term by the four volunteers.
Check out what we have been up to in the NEXT blog entry.
REMEMBER we are encouraging you to give some rich feedback and reflection to help refine them for use this term by Gerd, Esther, Duncan and Danielle.
At this stage some of you might be thinking that you need resources on blended learning - we can help with that via the blog and through working together. Just let us know!
MEETING 2 REMINDER
WHEN: October 15th: an ONLINE meeting
Meeting outcome:
Feedback given to those teachers who are undertaking case study (critique and suggestions for blended learning unit plan)
WHEN: October 15th: an ONLINE meeting
Meeting outcome:
Feedback given to those teachers who are undertaking case study (critique and suggestions for blended learning unit plan)