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