2014 Teaching as Inquiry at MPS

Focus Area: School-wide Writing Moderation Term: 2

Identified
Student Need
What skils and
knowledge do I need?
What skills and
knowledge do the
students need?
Deliver/Teach
Assess/Review
Reflection
And
Questioning
Consistency school-wide
in writing skills and
teacher marking
E-asttle rubrics need to be
understood by all staff.
Exemplars to be used as main
guide when marking.
Code all students to limit bias
(subjectivity).
Conistency in instruction giving.
Some teachers worked alongside others to
mark work first part of moderation.
Cross marking with students across
school
Overall great results.
Need to moderate samples prior
to marking so that benchmarks
are discussed first.
More time to get marking
completed in future
End of year E-asTTle look at
moderatng samples first, before
whole class samples are marked.
Anaylsis results positive across
school punctuation and vocab
main areas of need