Mathematics PLD

Slide link 

Find little pink book for maths- effective pedagogy in mathematics.

Maths is about critical thinking, making mistakes and taking risks. 

How to be a good group member- could record this to show the kids.

Questioning is really important.

TIP chart- term, information, picture. 

Who doesn't belong link - site for who doesn't belong questions. 

Talk moves and using wait time. 

Maths eyes- http://ntimages.weebly.com/ 

Karakia, Whakatauki and Waiata.

Each morning we start with a Karakia, Whakatauki and Waiata.


Our Karakia and whakatauki-


Waiata we use at school-



It is fantastic to start our morning connecting to our school and learning new songs. It has helped the kids to start their day in a positive way.

Te Reo throughout the classroom.

To encourage students to use Te Reo on a daily basis each week we have a Te Reo phrase that students learn to say and respond to in Te Reo.
Each of these phrases are talked about in the morning and encouraged throughout the day.
These are displayed and hung in the classroom.



I have noticed that the students are excited about using and learning the phrases each week. They have been correcting themselves when they have used it wrong.

As part of this there are Te Reo labels around this class on common classroom items- this is also encouraging the students to use the Te Reo word instead.

Kaitiakitanga in the classroom.

At Mangonui School we teach students about Kaitiakitanga and leadership within our school.
This links with the ideas of being Kaitiaki to ourselves, others and papatuanuku.

Kaitiakitanga is about being a guardian and a leader and learning about the responsibilities we have to ourselves, others and papatuanuku.

After discussing as a class what we think it means to be Kaitiaki this is what we created:

This is referred every morning at the start of our day and added to as we learn more. 

Te Hiku Manaiakalani Outreach 2 Launch Day

Manaiakalani TOD- 29th January 2020

Learn, Create, Share- Dorothy Burt.
Dorothy Slides

Digital curriculum-

How can we set up the digital curriculum in our school?

DFI #9- Revision

Wednesday 13th November 2019


What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

Today we talked about Ubiquitous Learning with Kerry and Vanessa. This is about learning being anywhere, anytime, any place- which after being on the Manaiakalani journey this year I really do believe that this is what learning has become in my class.
When students are away they can find our learning on our class site. They can also see examples of what others have done which I have found has helped a lot of my learners start tasks more promptly and less students saying they don't know what they are doing. 


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional/personally?

Kerry mentioned a website that can find alternative apps https://alternativeto.net/ I will definitely use this to try and find different apps for things that I could use personally or for school things to.


What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  

I want to have a go at using google classrooms with my students to set assignments for them and have a discussion area and see if they enjoy this.


Test day- Today we had our google exam and I passed!
The test was a lot different than what I was expecting and was a lot of reading.

DFI #8- Computational Thinking

Wednesday 6th November 2019

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa today - specifically empowerment?

After talking with Dorothy she made a huge point of saying that if Chromebook's are only a tool then get our families to purchase a $2 tool. We should be using these things to change the lives of our whanau. We want to empower our children in their learning. I connected with this because next year our school is offering parents the opportunity to buy the devices so this has made me really think about how I am going to make sure my students are really getting the most out of them rather than using them as a tool.

Also completely agree with what Dorothy said about Imoko, I think that this service is absolutely amazing for kids and their families as a lot of parents can't get into the doctor in our area so its great to get kids what they need when they are at school.

I also really liked what Dorothy said about making sure we use the comment section on the blogs to have a conversation with others- rather than "look someone commented on my blog" and ignoring it- this is something that Kerry and Vanessa have made sure we do when commenting on blogs at DFI. 

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I learnt how to use scratch better which will make me use it more in my class- my kids love to use it so this will be great!
It was also great to look at the kid speak progressions for digital technologies- will be really good to share these with my school and our students so they are clear about what they are able to do.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

It would be awesome if we could get some of the dash bots for our school. We got to use these today and I have been to another Manaiakalani school and the year 6 students taught me how to use it and it was an amazing way to connect with their learning and have the students as the teachers! I would love to see my students do this at school and in our community.
I have also used scratch with my class but now that I know more about it I will use it more in class.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I think something that I will use in my personal life is the removing background app we were shown- makes it so much faster and easier to add pictures and get rid of the background, will also be using this at school!

Had a go at making a scratch video- want to get my kids to do something like this to show how to be Kaitiaki at our school.

Hard at work today!