Inquiry

My inquiry was to help my students understand that completing work can be satisfying.

I chose 5 students.

Some ideas I used to were to shorten tasks, make the tasks repetitive so the students know what to do and can be independent and feel a sense of accomplishment.

I also had class koreros which mostly revolve around completing learning.

We finish what we start

I concentrate on my mahi to finish on time.

Writing tasks had a time set on them. If they didn't finish, they finished at lunch time. I found this worked for a while. Students who attended regularly have finished, however, the revolving door of the same students away still have unfinished work.

My students I chose were often away bar one who went to the class next door for literacy. The other four need high teacher input to succeed. I was conscious I needed to give all the students a fair portion of my time as many needed the same help as 4/5 of the students. Many of my whole class as with most of my chosen students did not attend learning on line in the last 2 years either.

Part of me feels that I could have done better with the whole year rather than 3 terms. I know it is what it is. Overall, I feel the class as a whole is succeeding and making progress with work completion as their ability to focus has improved somewhat. I notice that as they complete on "finish it off properly" times, and they get 2 done a day they feel satisfaction.