Relationship Based Learning -RBL with Claire 

Cognition- Jena Crowely training

1. Identify and measure if you are a deficit thinker. Making judgements about students.

2. Ethnicity and culture- make the child feel as though they belong.

3. High expectations for ALL students.

4. Well managed environment - planning.

5. Knowing the content that you are teaching. 

Discursive Practices- Strategies 

1. Prior learning- get student involved in the teaching. If they know something get them to teach or discuss with the class

2. Feedback and feedforward. I like the way you ….. Because…Next time you could try...

3. Co-construct the learning. 

4. Power-share- step out of the picture and get the student to help and teach each other. Using your children to empower others.

PCT- Vera Unka

 

PCT Course with Vera Unka

28.08.20

Reflection

Karakia- I would like to achieve knowing the meaning of our school karakia. Also knowing it off by heart.

Maths games- Micheal Minas- has short YouTube clips on fun easy games for children. I would like to develop some more fun games for our Maths Must do and Can do.

Gifted students- Searching through this website to get some more insight on identifying a potential gifted student in my class. https://gifted.tki.org.nz/define-and-identify/

Writing- Writing prompts- Try Pobble! Also draw on children's interest such as Hello Neighbour and other things of interest students discuss in class.

Shared and guided reading lecture with Vera- Model strategies during guided reading (sounding out, blends, digraphs. Pretend that I'm stuck on something and ask students what strategy I could use to figure the word out).

Emergent readers- Hook students in with an end in mind. What do I want the students to learn? Organic. Example- If I wanted students to learn about concepts about print (front, back, spine, front cover, author) Have a theme, for example ‘fun’. Get a bunch of book around the theme fun. Draw a picture about a fun time you had and invite students to draw or talk about a fun time they had. Always invite. Then get the students to look through the books on the table. Look at pictures. Discuss the ways the characters are having fun.

Always know your end game. Notice. Observe.

Nathan Wallis- Developing the Brain Neuroplasticity

Nathan Wallis- Developing the Brain Neuroplasticity

29.7.20

BT Professional Development with Vera

BT Professional Development with Vera

Reflection

Problem:	Actions	Where to next?
Year 2-3 class is at reading level 7-11 They are not recognising/remembering basic sight words Trying to push them up	Word cards Tested them on words they know and don't know After reading go and practice words they don’t know Tested reading	Create more interesting and engaging follow up activities

Jeannie Skinner talk from National Library

Reading aloud is incredibly important. It helps to build vocabulary, it's fun, it helps strengthen vocabulary, language, grammar and writing. 

Access to books is very important. At Paparore school students are only allow to borrow 1 book. Jeannie suggests that more books should be allowed to be borrowed so that students can take a risk with a book they may like and one that they know they will like.

Having role models read to my students would be great. having a male come in to read, maybe a police woman or athlete/ rugby player so that the students can see people they look up to reading for pleasure.

Talking about books with my students needs to happen more. 

Online Learning

I now have a fully functioning site that I have been using for the past 3 weeks to provide online learning for my students. I feel really proud of my site and its awesome to see my students engaging with it. 

DFI Session 9

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

Doing the Google Exam was very beneficial as I leant lots of new things. It was fun working at speed and practising working at speed. It gave me lots of practise of all the thing I have learnt during DFI.

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

My memory has been refreshed with Sheets. I can now calculate the averages of scores quickly, then use the data to create charts. I would like to keep practising with sheets because i know it would improve my efficiency when documenting students data.

DFI Session 8

Computational Thinking

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

What stuck with me during our Hangout with Dorothy was what she said about teachers feeling empowered and that feeling being projected through to our students. I liked what she said also about empowering whanau and how detrimental it can be when teachers put passwords on specific things and whanau can not access it.

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

I liked that we all got to have a tutu with the technology. We had access to Stratch, robots, stop motion with green screen and mini models of trees and dinosaurs, and a virtual reality simulator. It gives me a little taster of the ways we can be more creative in the classroom. If my school gets access to any of the technology we experimented with today I would feel confident giving it a go with my students.

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


Scratch was a great tool that I could introduce to my students. Its much harder and more complicated than it would seem! This is what I created. Definitely not finished and far from perfect but its a great example to show how difficult I found it!