Manaiakalani Wānanga 2021

Wānanga 2021

We came together face to face in regional clusters or from far and wide online during this wānanga. Here are a few notes I recorded from today's session.

Pat Sneddon - Amplifying the learn, create and share - Pat shares an important message especially in these challenging times and the impact of Covid 19 has had on our communities. Manaiakalani learn, create, share pedagogy has helped close the gap when in online learning and demonstrates just how important it is to maintain and build on this pedagogy in our current changing environment.

Dr Rebecca Jesson - I always enjoy listening to Dr Rebecca Jesson. She has a wealth of knowledge and I always walk away with another gem or to or a different perspective to investigate. She spoke about the importance of the purpose of the 'why' behind reading and the importance to fine and review.

Looking at the data

• Interrogate evidence of strengths and needs
• Identify strategies likely to work, based on research evidence
• Close interrogation of implementation - so that strategies adjusted to learners’ strengths needs
• Refine and review

Design with the end in mind

This model was developed this year bringing together elements of the Manaiakalani pedagogy, high leverage practises and digital affordances and has informed the observations, questionnaires and these recommendations.

T-shaped Literacy

The importance of purposeful text to go of surface and depth

Up until recently, the selections were not chosen to build knowledge from one lesson to another. The units of study, five or six weekly lessons, were all too frequently a hodgepodge of selections organized under a vague theme, such as serendipity or adventures. Fortunately, the most recent versions of core programs present units of instruction with unified themes and selections that build knowledge over several lessons (LaVenia, 2019).

The importance of higher order questioning and extended discussions.

Students are invited to speak and students build on from each other to extend the discussion. The importance of teaching discussion skills.

Learn, Create, Share

Reflecting on my own professional practice and exploring ways I can implement more SHARE opportunities in our team

Currently our students have the opportunity to share within reading groups, use of blog to share across the team and give feedback to others, creating to share e.g poster or direct action of their learning. 

How can we increase the SHARE platform in our school community?

It's MIT time... after an informative morning the time came to share our pre-recorded MIT Pecha Kucha. It was a surreal feeling sitting with our cluster watching myself online. It all went well and I feel painted a good overall summary of my journey this year. I am proud to be amongst a great cohort of teachers during this 2021 MIT inquiry and each and everyone of our tools or websites will be valuable resources in the future. GO TEAM! 

KPMG Hui #3 Online

 

In this current Covid climate life is back in lockdown which for many work comes to a screaming halt. For many educators life becomes very busy as we adapt back into online preparation and learning.  Learning never stops and each lockdown brings new ideas and collaboration amongst those in our industry.

Today our MIT 2021 cohort were meant to be meeting for our termly hui at KPMG in Auckland. Lockdown didn't stop this team of innovative teachers, we meet for an online hui. We shared our experiences of online teaching and successes and challenges it brings. 

One of our tasks today was to split off into pairs or small groups and retell our inquiry as if we were explaining it to a Beginner Teacher. I worked with Sarah & Manpreet. The buddy I was reporting on was Sarah. 

Sarah's inquiry was based on the gaps she sees in her classroom in Mathematics. 

The Problem - she has identified that this gap in her students number knowledge is preventing them for moving up a level. 

Her Goal  -  to create teacher directed resources to support her learners. She is collaborating with Rebecca who also sees this gap in her students even though they are working at a different level. Sarah and  Rebecca are formulating google sheet worksheets with a range of number strategies and levels within the curriculum. 

Classroom Practice - Sarah has introduced the Google sheet workshops into her daily maths program as a ten minute warm up. The students are required to take a screenshot of the completed sheet and of a photo of their working out to put in a blog post. She has seen an improve me in the students understanding of different number strategies. This is a great way for students to reflect on their learning and also awesome evidenced based practice by tracking their achievement through the students blogs. 

Next steps for my own inquiry is to continue to check my to do list and keep on track. I have a clear understanding of what I been  doing and what outcomes have come from the introduction of tools to support my learners with their understanding of instructions. I now have to practice being more succinct in my preparation for the upcoming wananga in October. 

Huge shout out to Matt and the MIT cohort for our hui today. It was so great to SEE you all and to connect with others outside of my bubble. 

Until next time team. 

MK Toolkit Session

In this Toolkit session I learnt how to use Mote within a Google Form not only for hearing the questions but to leave a response. I love Mote and use it all the time, especially in the multi model slides I create for reading. It's supportive for all but a real gem for the many tamariki that have a learning barrier. It allows the student to hear the instructions or the questions as many times as they like and they can record their thinking without getting caught up in the mechanics of writing. essentially removing barriers for their learning and empowering student agency. I was super excited to learn more ways I can use this extension. 

 Cheryl's session was so informative with little tips and tricks to improve the use of Mote and the many different ways you can use it. I enjoyed learning how you can view the responses from your Google Forms in Google Sheets and how you can track who has seen it and responded in your Mote activity & engagement folder.  

 

I am looking forward to using Mote in a Google form in our curriculum program. I  have started creating a bank of self assessments for the tamariki to do at the end of our Natural Disaster inquiry. I think it will be great to change it up a bit as we tend to use our trusted and known Google extensions and apps

. Mote is so user friendly and fast. If you haven't tried it... you must. It's great.