Woodman PAT scores

Language Arts Acceptable standardExcellence EnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writersEnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writers Raw Data – Language Arts

Raw Data - Math Math Acceptable standardExcellence EnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writersEnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writers

Raw Data - Science Science Acceptable standardExcellence EnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writersEnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writers

Raw Data - Social Social Acceptable standardExcellence EnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writersEnrolledWritersProvince(writers)CBE writers

Language Arts Regular program – Raw Data School Acceptable 96.6 Province Acceptable 90.6 School Excellence 18.1 Province Excellence 17.3

Language Arts - English as a Second Language – Raw Data School Acceptable 79.5 Province Acceptable 74.2 School Excellence 5.1 Province Excellence 7.5

Language Arts – Special Education – Raw Data School Acceptable 70.8 Province Acceptable 62.4 School Excellence 4.2 Province Excellence 3.5

Areas of Focus - LA Continue to increase the number of students achieving both standard of excellence, and in particular, standard of acceptance for writing and reading. We’ve been successful in helping students achieve ‘acceptable’. We need to emphasize the need for students to attend to detail in all areas of writing which will help them to move up to ‘excellence’. Continued focus on the five areas of the Narrative/Essay. Continued focus placed on functional writing in order to keep students’ scores in this area in line with the narrative/essay section scores. Particular emphasis needs to remain on both areas of content management and content. Differentiation to accommodate ESL and Special Ed students’ learning has proven successful. We will continue to address the varying needs of individual students.

Areas of Focus - Math Continue to work with the middle to low achieving students to improve their results. This will be achieved by incorporating multiple intelligence strategies into the teaching styles, utilizing peer tutoring, Resource assistance, encouraging students to use Homework Hotel, and providing additional help outside of class time for teacher assistance. Personalization in presentation as well as assessment could encourage struggling students to continue to work at improving their level in math. Continue to work on maintaining students’ achievement on the Numerical Response questions. Numerical Response questions will be incorporated into the year on Unit Finals so that the students are very familiar with the format before they write the Provincial Exam. Our Math department (Gr. 7-9) will concentrate on teaching and developing Statistics and Probability concepts. When evaluating our results in June, we identified this as an area of concern. This is a concept that is taught in Grade 7, 8 and 9 and with a more concentrated effort in delivering this concept we will see our students achieving more success through this strand of Mathematics.. Even though our results within our ESL population were exceptional this year we will continue to work with our evaluation and collaboration with the ESL department as our ESL population continues to change from year to year. Encouraging basic skill development and assistance in reading and evaluating math questions for understanding will continue.

Areas of Focus - Science Numeric Response Questions: Continue to introduce all students to numeric response questions from grade 7 to 9 throughout the school year. This will allow students to understand how to answer this type of questions and remove the confusion factor to these type of questions. Numeric response questions will be used for quizzes and attached to unit tests for all levels. Instill in students that these questions are easy and do need to be read completely. This will be accomplished in class by doing more work on these type of long questions where focus on reading is a strong part. New provincial assessment questions are more straightforward now and are proving to have better results for students. Unit test through out the year should also reflect the need for good reading and not have time constraints that make students work too fast. Use more graphs and charts for analysis of data. Have students work on these type of questions, both in exercises, assessments and tests. Assist female students in areas of physics and math, to grasp the concepts better, and have them work through all material at a level comparable to the males in class. Develop new ways to assess females competence in curriculum and adjust instruction as required to meet a higher competence. The focus of the new curriculum has to be grasped and areas for improvement identified.

Areas of Focus – Social Studies For the past several years, it has been the strength of Woodman students’ knowledge that has helped drive strong results in the provincial achievement exam. The 2009 results continued a pattern developed in 2008 which saw a significant increase in skills questions by Woodman students. This may be due to the establishment of department standards in mapping skills; along with a greater emphasis on political cartoon analysis, table and chart reading, and data interpretation. An item analysis of student results has yielded the following areas for improvement.: Analysis and interpretation of multiple sources of information, political cartoons, tables and charts. Application of learned concepts to text sources such as multiple speakers. Knowledge of Canadian federal government structure and economic policies of Canada and the United States.

PAT Dates – 2010 May 12 10am – Language Arts Part A June 16 10am – Social Studies June 23 10am – Language Arts Part B June 24 10am – Science June 25 10am - Math