Data Meeting #1

While I joined Group 2 a little later after they had already analyzed the data, I added my own noticings, wonderings, and exploratory questions to the Google Doc so that I was contributing to this week. By the time I switched teams, I found that most teams would probably have completed their first data analysis. I decided to stick with Team 2 and just add to their well-done work with my own noticings and wonderings and exploratory questions. I found the data very interesting as I don’t deal with elementary-aged lessons. After working at my middle school and hearing some of the background stories of the students, I always wonder what could possibly be happening at the home when I look at scores. I wonder why some of the students are doing so poorly? I wonder if the students have a good support system at home, if they are mainly watched by an older sibling or if they have no supervision at all.  My team wants to keep diving into this current Kindergarten Math data, so I’ll be interested to see how we can analyze it further!

Since I am a PE teacher, I wonder if the shortcomings of the students that the data presents shouldn’t just fall on the math teacher. We have looked at data in my middle school the past maybe two years and honestly have felt it a little mundane and not relating to me. But maybe I’m wrong in that thinking? Can there be more cross-curricular planning periods so that lessons like these ones are reinforced across the board?

As far as my data goes, I was analyzing the data of the difference between Health-related fitness components and Skill-related fitness. I found that it seems the students did better on the Health-related fitness which I would think the opposite. Most students do not think of the health components of PE and only think about the physical aspect! It was interesting for me to try and figure out WHY the some of the students aren’t doing that well? How is their home life? Do they have good attendance? Do they even care?