Holiday learning with interested staff

In the holidays I met with Veni and we went over again how to add planning to the team site.

 
I met with Nola and showed her how to add a doc to Hapara.


I met with Elena and we covered several areas she required help with.
She also published a blogpost to reflect on her learning with Te waka reo and her learning with Te Reo.

Holiday Learning

This has already been a busy week. Three teachers took me up on a holiday session with me.

Nola had a session regarding Hapara and how to share a doc with her students.


Veni had a second session for embedding a Google Doc into his team's site.

He also attended a #FlatConnection session led by Julie Lindsay and reflected on the process here.


Elena had a technical session which included sorting out her VLN account, creating a twitter list and a blog reflection for #CENZ15 challenge. Congratulations Elena for passing 100 followers on twitter. She also wrote a reflective blog post about her Te Waka Reo journey and you can read that here.

Now for anyone else, I will share the badges page again. Let me know how you are getting on with these. I believe that lots of you can tick most of these badges. Create your own page and hyperlink to the evidence.

A reminder that October is Connected Educator Month #CENZ15. There are a few challenges for you to undertake so go to the site and check them out. I am involved with three of them. These are #TeachMeetNZ, #EdBookNZ and #EdBlogNZ.

Identify Effective Strategies for ELL

EdBookNZ Project

Edbooknz from Sonya Van Schaijik

Trustees- Newmarket Rotary Charitable Foundation

Assessment with a Pasifika lens

Date: Friday 11 September 2015

Breakfast and seminar

Presenter: Manu Faaea-Semeatu

Link to Manu’s Presentation

This breakfast seminar explored ways to enable schools to create environments that empower Pasifika students to be who and what they are with reference to National Standards and NCEA assessment tools. Manu shared several avenues of support for school leaders and teachers, as well as how to raise engagement and achievement through culturally responsive assessment.

• Culture of continuous learning for teachers and educational leaders.
• Respond to individual learning needs
• A curriculum that uses knowledge to develop learning capacity
• Students in expert roles, teacher as learners
• How do we understand this? Access for all…….
• Engaging with families and communities
• -church, sports clubs, get to know the families & understand where
• -overcare and they can’t believe in themselves if you don’t believe in them first
• Assessment that is fit for purpose
• Assessment in relation to National Standards must follow the characteristics ogf effective assessments as outlined in NZC
• benefits students and involves students
• supports teaching and learning goals- triangulates the learning
• is planned and communicated
• is suited to the purpose- the why of needing to learn

We need to prepare chn for the future that does not yet exist.

www.nzqa.govt.nz/assets/About-us/Publications/Strategic-publications/pasifika-strategy.pdf

• Rhythm
• Purpose
• Comfortable
• What were you thinking about while doing this exercise?

Listening to keep in time

New concepts need visualisation

How do we facilitate the unknown to students prior knowledge so that the unknown becomes

-the way that we do things that is conducive to Pasifika education

http://leap.tki.org.nz/

http://pasifika.tki.org.nz/

Culturally responsive assessment