Reflection - where am I at?

It was great meeting up in the City of Sails at a super venue, the KPMG buildings.  From student data I felt I needed to take a step back to consider how lower order questioning helps students gain a basic entry level for understanding the text.  The challenge has been changing my mindset from engaging with higher order thinking skills, to inference and/or lower order skills.  I feel I am still not there yet on the concept I want to tackle with my Year 9/10 learners.  I decided to research into bringing all my ideas together to analyse what might be happening.  Heres what I found out:  

When I analysed  The Pedagogy Wheel V5 against Sheena Cameron's Reading Comprehension Strategies (2009), most of these reading strategies sit at the lower level of Bloom's taxonomy:  remember and understand:

Where to next:  I feel I need to do further investigating, researching, synthesising of information into predict, synthesis and visualise to decide what reading strategy I will focus on.  Here is a brief overview of them:

• Predicting - can set the purpose for reading;
• Visualising  - can support self-monitoring (meta cognition); and 
• Synthesising - can create ownership of thinking.

Prototyping: going through the experience of prototyping was very beneficial for me.  I found working with other professionals who are also focused on raising student achievement was helpful. This experience may have to recreated with my new challenge statement.