Tiaki-James Pokere - Reflection, thoughts, inquiry, collaboration and more

27th July  Blogger - Professional Development Professional Development Monday 27th July, a teaching staff member guided the entire teaching staff through the steps required to create a personal, or classroom blog to track own teacher learning or that of the classroom. This tool, I believe is another essential form of communication between teacher, student, wider community and whanau members.  This image shows the great advantages of having a blog and how these 3 ideas intertwine with one another.  Sheet showing the steps required to  set up a blog account Where to from here for me?  End of year to evaluate classroom website, if this has not been effective and informative as first thought, I will then create a classroom blog to entice parents to view the current work carried out by their child/moko/whanaunga/friend. However, it is vital that I continue to inform whanau, and extended whanau to refer to the classroom w...

PTC 1 Establish and maintain effective professional relationships focused on  the learning and well-being of ākonga  Key Indicators   i.           engage in ethical, respectful, positive and collaborative professional relationships with: ·         ākonga ·          teaching colleagues, support staff and other professionals             -  Sharing classroom website with syndicate team and how this may benefit both the when and                      students.              -  Continue to keep in contact with support staff regarding students learning progress and                    achievement.        ·         ...

Term 3 Week 1 20th July - 24th July Goals for the coming week - Reading and Maths programme finalised.   - Te Reo programme finalised. - Reflect on Inquiry - Key knowledge and understanding. Professional Development for week - Te Wananga o Aotearoa - Maths PD - Spiral Inquiry A great start to term 3, this week. I have enjoyed seeing most students settling back into the classroom environment and school routines. Through observations, I have noted one or two of my students who have struggled to maintain focus and live by the schools vision. I have conferenced with these students to guide them on the right path possible.  This weeks focus has been about easing the students into classroom and school routines. the students have engaged in a range of activities. Such as some art work (Using different texture colours to show students descriptive wording on a passion of theirs i.e sports is... Exhilarating), writing evaluations, desk mats, SOAR caps, cross country practise a...

Weekly Reflection T2 Week 6 Date: 25th May - 29th May Goal for coming week Continue making  anecdotal  notes Start GLOSS Testing on all students  Re-familiarise self of key knowledge and ideas for measurement   Professional Development Attended Algebra Workshop 2 iPad Traning (Manukorihi Int) As the term slowly approaches the end, it makes me wonder where all this time has gone. I believe a lot of rich and quality learning has taken place in the classroom. I have found that the majority of the students have really engaged in the mathematic learning. I believe this is evident due to the discussions had, solving of problems and the maths lesson going overtime.  The current Narrative writing unit is working really well. All students are showing great interest to write their own narrative and in that are producing quality writing pieces accordingly to their current needs.  The current reading programme is also showing high engagement. T...

Weekly Reflection  Term 2 Week 5 Goals for coming week Ensure PRT blog is up to date.  Organise reading exercise for students assessed as stanine four (Work on inferencing). Organise maths for whole class, using PAT data.  Make comments on where students are at (maths, reading, writing).  Professional Development Attended: Te Wananga o Aotearoa (Te Ara Reo Lvl 2) iPad Training (Manukorihi Int) Algebra Maths Workshop (Te Toi Tupu)  This week was the first week using the PAT comprehension data. Through this data, I identified students who were assessed as being at stanine 4. After identifying these students, I then identified appropriate an appropriate activity, which would challenge them to think critically about a type of text. I first started off by observing my mentor teacher who is also carrying this out. This gave me an insight as to how I can run this learning programme with my 5 children.  Using the PAT data for mathematics is wor...

Algebra Workshop 21st May 2015 Algebra Workshop 1 These workshops see other teaching staff from schools within the Waitara Teaching Region where we all come together to collaborate and learn from one another. This first workshop had all teachers thinking critically about the Algebra Levels within the NZC document and what an algebaric activity may look like at each level. It was quite interesting engaging in a professional development task like this, because some activities shown made some question whether the chosen activity was at the right (appropriate) level, or whether it should be a lower/higher level. Overall, this first workshop was very informative and made me think about what I should be teaching at year 7&8 if the individual is at that level in regards to the NZC.  This image shows what each learner should be learning at the end of each level. This image shows what we as group knew about Algebra.

E-Learning PLD E-Learning PLD Each, Wednesday one of our school staff members guides staff on how to use iPads and the apps currently on there, so that we as educators can implement and use these apps or programmes within the learning environment. This week we were guided step by step, how to use the application NGA (National Gallery of Art). This application allows students to create their own setting. Once the setting has been created, students then save their image, and import this into "explain everything". Students then have the opportunity to record their creative story on the setting they have created.