Kahui Ako Hui 23/5

In this role as Kahui Ako within school teacher I am developing a better understanding of Inquiry. I realise that a true teacher driven Inquiry is established from a need within your own classroom and school community rather than about setting goals to meet targets or about utilising PD that is already in place in our school. However it is creating more questions:

- What is the difference between Inquiry and Goal setting? Does everyone have a shared understanding of this?
- How does Inquiry (that comes from learners in your classroom, fit under CoL Aims and Goals?
-Can we assume that PD that is taking place in a school is a result of a wider inquiry that has already taken place to meet school targets?
- Teachers are willing to be enquirers but how do we ensure that it is a positive thing rather than more (paper) work?

Today we looked at: Why Collaborative Inquiry?
Things that stood out to me:
-everyone being a learner, feeling safe to try new things
-owning professional learning, relevant to our learners and school. This gives us motivation.
- Student engagement- everyone learning together (promotes agency)
- Being co reflective allows us to see things from multiple perspectives, different viewpoint make different conclusions.

How can we record inquiry?
I would like to see other templates but hoping to find a way to record everything on out blogs.
I will make a plan to meet and discuss this with Diane so that I can make a time line/document  for reflections based on stages of Inquiry.

Spiral of Inquiry (made my teachers)



My reflection/action plan from end of Hui

Alim Week 4 Term 2

My Alim group has been going reasonably well this term. I am finding that absences are causing a few issues with this group. There is never a day when all of these students are all at school together.

I started the group with a mixed range of ability in the group. I found this challenging as the more capable students would dominate the target students. I am tending to just stick with the target students now.

I am doing my Alim after morning tea each day. We are focusing on problem solving. The group is given a similar problem that the rest of class will look at the following day. We look at breaking down the problem: What do the words mean? What is the problem asking you to do? What information is given in the question? This is often the stumbling block with this group.

We look at a range of strategies that we have to approach the question. The group has been impressing me with the knowledge that they can draw upon.

The group generally needs to work on applying the pre loading they get in Alim to the class problem solving the next day. They are not naturally recalling what they have learnt and applying it the next day. This is our next challenge...

Ubiquitous DFI Revision #9

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

I am interested to see the data on Summer Learning Journey, I am wondering how many students would be interested in this? It is interesting to hear from other Primary schools who have encouraged their students from Year 4-8 to purchased their own Chrome Books, as this is something our school is planning to do.
Tui Mai, Tui Atu: I am also interested to see how engaged the students will be by this once we get into blogging.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I need to continue to reflect on the SAMR model ensuring I am using the device to a more complex and creative way rather than just to replace traditional pen and paper methods.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?  
I am starting to use rewindable learning I hope to continue to develop this so it becomes a regular part of my practice as I think it is invaluable.
I would like to look into the T shape learning model and try to develop my Literacy programme to be more multi modal.
Some literacy links for my reference:

NZ Readaloud
www.getepic.com
Audio Books

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

Yay! I passed my Google Certified Educator Level One Exam :)

Empowered

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

Today Kerry spoke to us about Empowerment. She talked about how Manaiakilani promotes equity within our low socioeconomic community. We thought about how our learners are disempowered and how Manaiakilani can help with this. One thing I am noticing in my own class is high absenteeism which is a common problem in Northland. Hopefully the development of my class site can help me bridge a gap to learners who are missing school regularly.

I am conscious of empowering learners to become creators rather than passive consumers and the more I am learning the more confident I am feeling about doing this. This will be a continual challenge. Another thing I look forward to learning more about is helping students to understand the difference between social and professional life I think this is a vital skill required for this generation to ensure they develop confidence on line. However, it is also necessary for them to develop skills to cope with success and failures that people will encounter when putting themselves "out there" online.


"know how it works so you are not a victim of other peoples choices"

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

I would like to invest in some movie making ipad apps for our school. Apps I am interested in are:
-greenscreen app
-stop motion sudio
-imovie
-flick
We used these apps to make the following movie. I was pleased to learn how to publish the video to You tube also, which made it easier to load on to my blog.

Demonstrate vs Articulate

Inquiry Update 14/5

After our TOD we set a goal to scan with our learners, to gather information on whether they could articulate their leaning.
I asked my students:
What are we learning to do?
What was the most challenging part for you today?
What do you need to learn to more successful (find this easier)?  I asked my students this in a variety of ways: to discuss with a partner/group, report back on a post it and electronically.
I discovered a few things:
-when the LI was written on the board, they students could generally rattle it off
-when it wasn't their answers were generally task driven
-when I was confident of the intention for learning and the PURPOSE for it my learners found it easier to articulate their learning.

This left me with a few questions:
- How useful is it for students to read the LI off the board? Does that demonstrate that they understand what they are learning? Are there other ways that students can DEMONSTRATE their learning rather than just ARTICULATE it?
- How can ensure that more learning in our class room has real purpose so that learners can understand what they are learning and why it is necessary?

My coaching session with Susan  (14/5/19) looked at this.
We discussed how gaining a better understanding of the Manaiakilani Kaupapa of Learn, Create, Share will help me to focus on thinking carefully about my learning intentions if I am thinking about how it will lead to Creating and Sharing and that being the purpose for learning and vice versa.

How can I incorporate Learn, Create, Share into my classroom practice?

The following staff meeting allowed us to discuss further. What is more important? Articulating or Demonstrating?
Moving forward with the spiral of Inquiry we looked at:

Focusing : Where do I think concentrating my energy will make the most difference?
- I will be focusing on finding purpose to learning. Why is what they are learning is important? Can I give learning a real life context?
- I will continue to co constructing S/C with students but begin to record this digitally on the class site.
- I will be looking for evidence of how learners demonstrate their understanding of learning. How can I record this? Blog?

DFI# 7 Maps, Forms, Sheets

What did I learn that increased my understanding of being connected with Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy?
My homework is to look at the explore the following links to become more connected to the Manaiakilani community and make better use of these resources:

• Manaiakilani Toolkits
• Google + community

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?
I have always shyed away from using Google Sheets as I have never known how to use them well. I have picked up a lot of basic tips to make my data collection more streamline. I should try to start using it now, so I dont forget! Here is a link for me to refer back to:

Spreadsheets and forms to support teaching and learning

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

I am looking forward to integrating Google Forms into our classroom. They can be used for the following purposes:quizzes, reflections, preview of learning and also to upload files as a way of handing in assignments
Alicia introduced us to Breakouts as an interesting idea for students to record their learning. These could be used to prepare students for online testing preparation as well.
Following are links for my reference to examples of these:

• Number Knowledge
• ANZAC Breakout using a Google Form
• Reading and Answering Comp Questions
• Mark Maddren’s Pick a Path
• Digital Breakouts

Here's my example of a Break out.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Use My Google Maps.

Below I have been practising how to embed maps and active charts.

DFI #6

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

Today Kerry spoke about Visible Learning she shared the benefits of making planning visible to learners being beneficial to those learners who might be disengaged or distracted while the teacher is orally delivering lessons. I am noticing that often my learners do not read instructions clearly and are lacking the agency to follow directions with out my support. I am finding that I need to have expectations that my learners will access their learning through the site, I need to ensure I provide "wait" time to allow them to think for themselves rather than rely on me.

It also makes me aware of the clarity of my instructions, often what makes sense to me is not translated into what my learners understand.

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

professional?

I have made my class blog more organised and I am trying to make it more multi

modal

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

Vanessa has taught me to set up a google sheet with restricted access to each
row. I will create one of these this week as a way of tracking my learners as they
complete tasks and record.

Here I am sharing my class site to the DFI group.