Can reporting digitally to parents over 4 terms be more effective at informing parents/caregivers about the child’s progress/ performance at school than the traditional written reports?
The following inquiry will be run by Kate Weaver and Simon Scott in 2016:
We will run a Teacher as Inquiry for the year seeing how effective reporting to the parents digitally will be in terms of the understanding the parents have about their child’s capabilities and how they can assist their children in their learning.
We will be using the children’s individual blogs to share the children’s learning over the year. Each term we (teachers) will be adding links to these blogs where they will have access to digital reports in the form of Learning Stories, videos and National Standards reports.
Children will also be taught how to find evidence of their learning and relate it to the Learning progressions. This will mean the children have a better understanding of what they are able to do and what their next step is. This will ultimately have a huge impact on student led conferences, as the children will be sharing this evidence with their parents.
We want to talk to as many parents as we can and survey them about how they feel about the traditional written reports and how we could improve them. Also, what do they want to know about their child's learning and what is their understanding of National Standards in regards to their child’s achievement.
Their will be a survey about parents/caregivers satisfaction and understanding of reporting and the feedback they are receiving from us. This will be done beginning, middle and end of the year.
We will also continue to develop parental understanding of chromebooks/ Blogs and how to access and interact with their child’s learning, through workshops (Tekkie Breakie) that will be run throughout the year.
This will run nicely with where we are heading with ‘learn, create, share’ and the importance of visible Teaching and Learning for children and caregivers.
Click here to see the parent survey:
