DFI 6

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

Today we had a deeper look into class sites. It was great to see everyone's sites get some awesome

feedback on mine. We heard from a teacher at Tautoro School who had a great writing set up on her site.

Essentially it is a shared doc with a writing prompt. The difference to my shared docs is that the writing is

contained within a table and each student has a row which is bookmarked. This way no one can interfere

with anyone else's writing but students can see each others as they are being created. Awesome!

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
Hopefully learning a bit more about creating a nicer looking and easier to navigate site I have
created a more streamlined and user friendly experience for the students and their whanau.

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

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life.
I suppose this new found digital confidence is beginning to make me confident generally around google
and all things digital!

Whanau Kauri Partnerships

Last week's Whanau Kauri Partnership meeting was a great success. We had a visit from our Cognition Education Relationship Based Learning facilitator. I started using screencastify for last week’s whanau partnership session. Whanau loved it and were able to lead the learning session while I stood back and had time to chat and share kai with everyone. The shared doc was visible and totally collaborative which everybody loved.


last week's lesson

Todays DFI 5

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?Today we learnt a lot of shortcuts, control f was awesome for searching!

This afternoon I used screencastify to pre-record a spelling lesson for my Thursday Whanau Kauri partnership group.

Whanau Kauri Workshops (Maths)

I am looking forward to seeing how the whanau navigated around the class site and what feedback they have.  I am also looking forward to introducing Jenna to the group as part of our Alim observations.

I think I will get all of my students to work on their personal reports tomorrow, prior to the after school session, and have their levels, where they are at and next steps ready and printed for whanau to see. I will then try and do another shared doc where everyone is working on an activity based on their next steps. I will then put out rotation activities to do after that mini session.
I need to start using google groups for my whanau/kauri partnership sessions so that everybody is ready to go and has a record of what we have done.

Hopefully our dfi work today will hill me to use Hapara more effectively on this!

Whanau Kauri Workshops (reading)

I have been thinking about how to move forward with our Thursday student/whanau workshops as they start to get bigger. I think I might try and ask at DFI today how I can set up a shared doc that will be up on the screen where each student/whanau group can collaborate in real time and can be seen as distinctively their own and therefore differentiated.

This could work really well instead of teacher at front of the class, as the momentum of the group dictates the pace. I might try a spelling workshop based on my usual spelling lesson, but instead of me at the front the students will collaborate and teach their whanau how to do it and therefore take it home to continue.

I will try a range of activities to blend on tables such as rainbow words, backwards words, crosswords and wordfind that the students can do in choice based rotations after the initial mini lesson on the screen using chromebooks and online dictionaries.

High Expectations Seminar

Today we had a Manaiakalani TOD at Taipa. Some really interesting and tough listening around the connection between deficit thought and student outcomes.

While I believe that Oruaiti school has an excellent culture of student expectation I do think that there are some improvements I/we can make:

• Whole school mixed level groups
• Whole school goal setting and student led reporting
• Whole school Whanau based learning 

I think I will continue to keep a record of the relationship based projects and as Diane asked, share back my findings with the team at the end of the year.

I am wondering if we could use our pd funding to combine coaching and our lesson study with Rhona to focus on the Teacher Expectation Project (TEP)

http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/schools-departments/ldpp/ldpp-research/ldpp-research-projects/teacher-expectation.html

Intrinsic Motivation vs Extrinsic Motivation

My Show me 5 table reward system is extrinsic so I need to modify this slightly. I might try points based on habits of mind, e.g., persistence for meeting the challenge line in their writing.

Or instead of the Habits of Mind, I could follow a more culturally responsive course!

Whanaungatanga – building strong classroom relationships, collaborating; welcoming, personable, approachable

Kotahitanga – classroom community, sense of unity, respect, committed to Māori student achievement

Manaakitanga – supporting students academically and emotionally, understanding culture, connection with community

Whanaungatanga – building strong classroom relationships, collaborating; welcoming, personable, approachable


Rangatiratanga – responsibility for learning, autonomy, engagement, motivation; teacher monitoring and feedback

Wānanga – joint goal setting, short and long-term goal setting, academic focus, encouraging of questions

Mana motuhake – teachers care about student performance, clear feedback, goal-focussed; self-motivation, improvement-focussed, perseverance and resilience

Whanau Kauri Partnership

Last week's meeting was a real success. I gave the students their levels for reading and maths and then they filled out blanks reports with what they can do and what their next steps are.  It was definitely a step up from reading the learning intention off the board!