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.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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.
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.
Monday, September 21, 2015
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Assessment with a Pasifika lens
Date: Friday 11 September 2015
Breakfast and seminar
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.
- 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
Culturally responsive assessment
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Updating our learning spaces.
The staff blog is a space for curating our learning. I enjoy seeing the the team blogs take their turn at the top of the RSS feed.
This week I have enjoyed reading the update of class happenings from Kowhai and from Puriri. I think how you are maintaining the team blogs have been fabulous. I get really excited when I see some of the side widgets developing.
Check out how Andrea has created her digital modelling book and is sharing this with her children. Check out how Puriri use their blog to share their tumbles.
If you have a chance, do pop into the Emodo site. You should all have access to each team.
Part of the MLP thinking for us and our children is getting used to communicating digitally with our children.
I have enjoyed hearing how staff are also becoming familiar with the groups on the VLN.
A recent example of collaboration and sharing reflections has taken place with the development of the #edblognz site . As you update your own blogs I will add you to the RSS feed. I look forward to those teachers sharing what they got out from this weeks out of school professional learning.
In addition watch for what is coming. October is known as Connected Educator Month. So on twittter look out for the #CENZ15 tag. October is also a busy time for Anna and myself as we prepare to share our learning at Ulearn. I have another TeachMeetNZ happening as part of CENZ15 and this time I am cohosting with the TMSydney team.
In the holidays I thought I might run a half day's session for blogger. If you are interested in pimping your blog, do let me know and I will go ahead and set it up.
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