DFI #4- Collaborative Sites

Wednesday 18th September 2019

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

- After listening to Dorothy via google hangout this morning it made me realise how important for kids to share to an actual audience and that it is much more powerful for students to share using blogger than just sharing in class with other students and teachers. It was also very interesting learning about how the blogs are set up so the kids can use them safely.  

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

- I learnt how to create a site that I could use to introduce a topic to students and that I can keep the site saved in my drive to use anytime I want to do that topic again. Keeping it all in my drive in a sites folder that is shared with viewing access was helpful to know so anytime I add or create a resource I know everyone will make sure that everyone has access 

- I also learned that I can use Hapara to check my students blog posts and comments so that will make checking on their blogs much faster!

Lauren Seymour Site

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

- I can use Google sites and update my current site to make it more multi-modal. I will use this to introduce topics or to add more resources to my literacy and numeracy pages which I m hoping will make my kids more engaged when they are on our site.   

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

- Pre-planning my site was really helpful to organise my thoughts and ideas- I will definitely do this more to plan out other things. 

Was amazing to get some much time to practise what we had learnt. It was amazing to be in Paihia and be so close to the beach!

DFI #3 Dealing with Data

Wednesday 11th September 2019

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

Looking at create to learn again was really good and a good reminder of what we have learnt about it already. It was good to be reminded of how important creating is for learners do and gives them amazing opportunities to problem solve.

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

How to use google forms and sheets. I can use google forms with my learners to get information about their learning and can put this data into google sheets.
Here is my practise google form from today- Google Form


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

I learnt how I can turn google forms into a quiz- I could use this to make some fun questions for the kids and also as an assessment tool to help my teaching. I also have more ideas of how I can promote creating within my program more often.

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

I learnt how to add places to my google maps which will be cool to make a wish list of places I want to visit and places that I have visited. This is an example of one that I created today.

DFI #2- Workflow

Wednesday 4th September 2019

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

I learnt how learn/ako links to the curriculum and how its about what we are already doing and how the digital world links with this. It also made me think about what "learn" looks like at my school and what is happening in my school. 
At my school we have PD, SENCO, RTLB's, mentoring, Phonics, DFI, Quick 60 and many more things that support the learn kaupapa.  

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

How to use google hangouts set up, invite and check availability of the people you are inviting - could use this for staff meetings or if someone is away and need to be apart of a meeting.  

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

Screen recording- quick time. Could use this to record things that I want the kids to learn and they can use this to help them do certain task. I want to record my-self embedding into a blog so the kids can watch that to help them remember how to do this.
When we did this it did not record the sound be we now know that we have to turn this on when we are screen recording.

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

I learnt how to organise my Gmail so different emails can be filtered to labels and have organised my Gmail so that my important emails are the first emails I see which has made my gmail much easier to look at and use. 

Manaiakalani PD- Share

Tuesday 3rd September 2019

Share/Connect- Slides

Types of sharing- 

1:1- face to face

1:group 30 people

1:Crowd 30-1000 people

1:world- global (blogging). 

Looking at the positive not the negative.

Can set up an email that you can send a bog post to so can do a blog post via email. 

Summer learning journal- activities for kids to do over the summer holidays- helps to keep kids on to their learning. 

Now that there is data for Manaiakalani it has shown that year 9's from non Manaiakalani are 2 years below the national norm.

DFI #1 - Core Business

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

After today's session I have learnt more about how the learn, create, share kaupapa can increase achievement across all learners. It was also awesome to hear from Dorothy how Manaiakalani started and came to be in so many schools. It felt like we were being told a lot of things very quickly but it was really great to be able to practice and play around with some of the new things we had been taught.

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

I learnt a lot of new short cuts that make day to day use so much faster and easier to use- ctrl shift V to paste without original formatting and command shift T to open recently closed tabs. I also learnt different things like voice to text to help assist some of the kids in my class. I also learnt easy ways to keep my drive tidy and in the order that I want. 

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

I learnt how to use the explore button more and can get my kids to do different activities where they have to search for images or information or something from there google drive. I also learnt about making poster and how using a table can be a really easy way for the kids to make posters. I can also teach my learners to use voice to text when typing for some of my less capable writers and also get them to use read&write so they can listen back to what they said and use this as an editing tool.  

I was also able to create a poster using some of the things that I learnt today.

Kohia BT program

Session 1- 8th March 2019

2 truths and a lie-

Notice, recognise, respond(often means change) and revisit. (similar to inquiry cycle).

Flexible approach to grouping- need to have this with all groups.

Principles of grouping- 
- Flexible
- Mixed
- Offering opportunity
- Change

Christine Rubi Davies- becoming a high expectations teacher

Change/re-arrange groups and try things for a few weeks to see if they work.

Reflection Strategy- (Critical Thinking) 

R-3 (Re-call)

I-2  (Insight)

Q-1 (Question)

Morning so far-
Q- how can I communicate with parents/teacher aide about what we are doing with mixed ability groups? Getting away from levels with reading.

Invite parents in.

Standards-
EC20 form-
https://www.educationcouncil.org.nz/sites/default/files/EC20%20application%20form.pdf
Mentorship- very important need to have this from both schools.
Reflections
Classroom observations- doesn't have to be from mentor teacher.
Get letter from principal to say what you have been doing while at school/who your mentor is.
2 obs a term

Session 2- 5th April 2019

Reflections- write down what is happening, keep out the feelings, write down the facts what is actually happening.
If you are making changes reflect back on the changes and make sure the change has worked.

Science Video-
1. Concept
2.Cognitive Conflict- ideas that conflict each other.
3. Constucting the learning- different things to look
4. Consider- when you are out out of the pitt- what does it mean to be a learner (real learning).
The Learning Pitt

Get them to think more- challenge and think more ask questions. Build on each others answer "I found it" share and talk and repeat.

Make a space- art collaboratively.
Leaders- change them each term.

Friday 7th June 2019
Ice-breakers to use with kids
- whisper game
- written conversation
- I remember....

Lesson with year 4's-
Grace, Troy, Luke, Eden and Mykael
1- introduce ourselves through a game 2 truths and a lie
2- quiz questions about the sharks- that linked to the book
3- read the whole story- stop and make predictions about what is going to happen next
4- talked about the characters and lead into the hot seat task
5- interview that characters while recording the questions they asked
6- draw a wanted picture about one of the characters

Reflection-
Could have scaffolded the hot seat task better- ideas about the characters
introduce who we are and the purpose of what we are doing

Lesson Reflection-
Would have been good to have one more activity to do at the end. Kids worked well and enjoyed the story we chosen. Good to have an art focus for the group that we have.

Friday 2nd August 2019
Ohaeawai Primary School.

T Shaped Literacy- mixed ability a range of texts that they use relating to the term focus.
https://maths.prototec.co.nz/ Basic facts

Creating high expectation classrooms- Christine Rubie Davies

Monday 22nd July 2019
TOD

High expectation teaching-

• Grouping and learning activities 
• Classroom climate 
• Student autonomy- motivation and engagement

Stereotyping turns into bias- not allowing variation (grouping in class). 

When you have higher expectations research shows that the students will achieve higher.

Create opportunities for all kids to work together in mixed groups in all areas. 

Middle Block- 

Goal Setting- 

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and rewards- 

Use the interest of the kids to promote learning. 

- constantly feeding back to the kids about their learning- know what they are learning and how they can move onto the next level. Setting and re-setting goals, check and see if they can do it- prove it so they can move on. Needs to relate to the learning intentions/success criteria (don't have total autonomy).

Help seeking is critical to help with goal setting and learning- making mistakes are about learning- change the culture. 

Key factors of goal setting: 

• Motivation 
• Attention 
• Challenge 
• Feedback 
• Self-efficacy 
• Self-regulation 
• The proximal versus the distal nature of the goal 
• Self-set versus teacher-assisted goals 

Implementing goal setting- 

• Personal bests 
• E-asTTle and goal setting 
• SMART goals

Need to be taught how to set goals- use something they have already have eg asttle test ILP/PAT

Last Block- 

Classroom climate- 

Body language- what are we showing the kids. 

What have the kids got going on outside of school. 

Focus on the behaviour and not the student. 

Does our facial expression match the emotion?

Whanau involvement- what do parents have an interest in at the start of the year.

Call parents when their kids are doing well- not just for bad things. 

Attributes of a effective teacher.