2019 Goals

Teacher: Miss Giulia Eugster

Northcote College 2018-2021 Strategic Goals/Outcomes for Students

1. By 2021 95% of all Northcote College leavers/18 year olds will achieve NCEA Level 2 (including 95% of Maori, Pasifika and boys)
2. By 2021 80% of Northcote College leavers will be engaged in tertiary study one year after leaving school (including 80% of Maori, Pasifika and boys)

Department Goals: Focus on student learning, specific to student achievement, measureable, couched in terms of what students will achieve. Link to school-wide goal e.g. HaSPP,
● 85% of students will regularly submit meaningful work for their Inquiries and Essays, including Maori, Pasifika and boys. (SS) Effective Pedagogy/ Tataiako/
● Increase student self-reported engagement, via our department end-of-year surveys, across aspects such as motivation to Curriculum Design
study, appreciating the significance of what they’re learning and transferability of skills learned to 85%. (SS) Effective pedagogy
● All ESOL students to make progress by one stage across all four language skills in their language learning as measured against ELLP Tataiako
(English Language Learning Progressions) (ESOL) Curriculum design
● 13ELA 2 students to complete learning the Academic Word List so that they can comprehend 90% of academic texts that they
may encounter at tertiary level. (ESOL)
● 50% 13ELA 2 ESOL students to gain English Level 2 writing credits for UE Lit by the end of the academic year. (ESOL)
● 75% 13ELA 2 ESOL students to gain their UE Lit reading credits by passing the Level 4 EAP reading standard. (ESOL)
● 75% Year 12 ESOL students to achieve 7 Level 1 English credits towards Level 1 Literacy by the end of the academic year.
(ESOL)

Individual Goals (Focus on student
learning, specific to student achievement,
measureable, couched in terms of what
students will achieve, pedagogical focus.
NB Tataiako goal is a requirement for all
teachers)
● Develop accessible resources for
low-literacy students in order to
improve submission and
achievement rates and enable
learners to achieve success in
10SST. (Tataiako Goal)
● Increase number of 11HIS
students gaining excellence in
external standard (1.5). Over 5%
with excellence.
● All ESOL students in 11ELB and
12ELA to make progress by one
Strategies/Actions 2019 (Why this strategy? Research base? Our own research? Expected Professional Learning Needs (Linked
outcomes/targets. Measures, Timeline) to Dept/Individual Goals)
● Surveying techniques
● I will incorporate effective pedagogies including individual feedback, student choice ● Valid approaches and strategies
of task integration of device use to support domain specific content acquisition in ● Further understanding and
my classes. These were designed at the end of 2017 as part of the departmental involvement with Tataiako
course reviews and curriculum development.
● I will attend focused professional development courses aimed at targeting the
aforementioned areas. These courses will increase understanding of how to
approach the targets and tools that can assist in attaining the targets.
● I am involved in the SST online literacy PLG for low-literacy learners. It is hoped that
this inquiry will enable me to develop strategies to assist and target students in
10SST with low-literacy levels when completing their essay and inquiry assessments
in social studies. Majority of students identified with low-literacy in 10SST are
Maori or Pasifika students.
● I will record and analyse the achievement results for 11HIS, 10SST, and 12ELA to
ensure they are meeting the aforementioned targets. This will also involve keeping
 stage across all four language a record of homework/workbook activity completion to ensure students are on
skills in their language learning as target to meet the goals.
measured against ELLP (English
Language Learning Progressions).

Self-Evaluation of Individual Goals