Term 3 teaching as inquiry

My teaching as inquiry for term 3/4.   This is an area that some of my boys need to focus on.  They are starting to sacrifice quality for quantity.

Running dictation second session

Room 9 have just completed their second running dictation session. This one worked so much better due to clarity of parameters. I tried to extend the activity by getting the students to write a short response to the text. Most of the class didn't do this part. I have to wonder if I either did not clearly explain what the next step was, or that it was too difficult for them to shift their thinking from the activity to what may have appeared to them, a new activity.  Here are some images and a short video from the activity.

Below is a short video with Halasika sharing his thoughts about this activity.

Running dictation pilot

It has been great to have Jane supporting our school with oral language. After a short meeting she suggested that I could try a running dictation activity. My teaching as inquiry was set up around boys engagement in writing.  My inquiry focus and plan and included.  Below are some pictures of them working on the running dictation activity.

Tititoria with room 12

The Y7 group continued on with their tititoria. Each group extendingthe distance they were throwing and catching.  It was great to see them working together and doing everything they could to help their buddy be successful.  Well done everyone.

Why the manaiakalani way....

What does wiki say family is?
Early Manaiakalani information

Setting up student blogs.

I'm often amazed that I am able to retain information that is useless in any other forum except maybe a quiz night.  Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that information is good for that event.  To keep it short (or shorter) but sweet, I have been attempting to set up my student's individual blogs.  I have not had much success at all.  That is until a very talented and helpful teacher sat with me after school and jogged my memory.  Thank you Teresa.  I really couldn't have done any of this without your help.
While this could be a depressing thing to have happen, I generally try to find the silver lining in the cloud.  So my bright part or glimmer of hope in all of this is that I can now use screencastify to forever have the steps and processes there for me so I do not have to remember.  Phewwwww!!!!

DFI week 9 The end of a journey

This image shows some of the best people I could have had enter my life.  I say some because not all of them where present for the photo shoot.



My last entry for this session of the DFI second cohort of the year.

DFI week 8

DFI week 7

DFI week six

DFI week 5

DFI week 4

Another great session at the DFI opportunity.

My next challenge is I guess I need to learn how to insert a slideshare so that my blog posts are no longer monochromatic or have a very flat 2D feel about it.

Ahh moments DFI week 3

Maybe too much brain encourages people to become introspective.  Movement helps to take a person outside of their head.

I think that CREATE has so much more to offer than just an end product.  It helps a person to problem solve, work with others, generate blood flow, increase heart rate, improve oxygen levels, increase lung capacity,

DFI week 2

Another DFI session with lots of great moments and a couple of low times. So time to reflect -

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

The message of how devices and technologies are NOT just a tool but how it can help to amplify the learning in the class and with students.

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

Today's sessions worked with google sheets, google forms and google mymaps. I needed support with the google forms part. That is why this PLG is so good. The tutors were there to support and encourage me. I broke through and pushed on with their help. This is not the norm for me because in the real world I would have given up and walked away from it because I found it hard.

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

I can see how google mymap could be exciting in a classroom. I can see how I can use it to support the reading comp for my top reading groups.
One activity we did with mymaps

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

I know that despite the struggle I had with google forms, I can see how this will help to make my teaching activities great. With google sheets I can see how much I need it at this point because of the monitoring data we collect and reporting to parents.

Sharon DFI week 1

Today is the first day of winter. which was a beautiful sunny day.  It was also the first session of the DFI course.

The today's course was like the tide - it ebbed and flowed.  When the flowing was happening, things went really smoothly.  Things seemed to click into place and made perfect sense.  The ebbing was a totally different story.  Each ebb felt like a brick wall, the impact left me seeing stars and tiny little birds.  This was mostly due to feeling dumb and a lot slow.  I guess the positive was that there were far more "flows" than "ebbs".  The "ah moment" for me was that I am not really a risk taker.  Not the best ah moment but none-the-less, something to look and improve.

Oral language PLD

My first blog post

“Recognising and spreading sophisticated pedagogical practice across our community so that students learn in better and more powerful ways...”

The Manaiakalani Community of Learning is working together on this task using the expertise existing in of our community of learning.

In 2018 for my inquiry I have selected the following CoL achievement challenge 


#5. Improve the achievement of students with additional needs in the learning areas of English/key competency using language symbols and texts

I will be labelling my posts as I update my inquiry throughout the year to make the content easy to access.

Labels:

LEvidence, LScan, LTrend, LHypothesise, LResearch, LReflect,

 CPlan, CTry, CInnovate, CImplement, CReflect,

SPublish, SCoteach, SModel, SGuide, SFback, SReflect

Label Key:

LEvidence	Learn - Gather Evidence	CPlan	Create - Make a plan	SPublish	Share - Publish
LScan	Learn - Scan	CTry	Create - Try new things	SCoteach	Share - Co-teach
LTrend	Learn - Identify Trends	CInnovate	Create - Innovate	SModel	Share - Model
LHypothesise	Learn - Hypothesise	CImplement	Create - Implement	SGuide	Share - Guide
LResearch	Learn - Research	CReflect	Create - Reflect	SFback	Share - Feedback
LReflect	Learn - Reflect			SReflect	Share - Reflect