Sima's Professional Blog

  Session 9 External Recognition Team hub sharing:   This morning we shared how our 8 weeks of learning under Manaiakalani. I have really enjoyed the learning throughout the weeks. When I didn't even know that we had a google draw lol. However the learning has been vey beneficial as now I have learnt the skills to create my own site, and have now created out year 7 & 8 google site. I have also learnt skills to blog and how our children have this platform and audience when they are writing.  Very cool links to go out and have a go Mote  Google arts and culture Incredibox  Textblaze  Reflection:  Overall I have had an awesome experience. I learnt a new word Ubiquitous- accessing learning where ever you are. Thank you to our main facilitator Vicki you were very professional and of course very helpful, what ever question I had you always did your best to problem solve even if you werent sure you ended up finding the answer very quickly. ...

  Session 8:  Empowered learners and Empowered teachers Empowered - unpacking from the word Agency  It is very difficult to get by with the average wage. It gives very little choice for some families, considering whanau in different spaces who have been displaced and had to move into another area.  Research shows that children coming from low socioeconomic communities arrive at school  2 -3 years compared to students in high decile schools. Also fall back with amount of words being learnt and a more likely to be transient families.  Technology spaces is not just a tool. Use the connections so that children can learn create and share. Creative and supportive learning environments that extend beyond the classroom.  Digital Technology Curriculum:  Progress outcomes - Guides -  Computational thinking - Algorithms , coding - Early levels: Can be non computerised - step to step instructions programming and programming fundamentals. making a j...

 Session 7: Ubiquitous - Anytime, Anywhere, Any place, Anyone  Providing opportunities - Visible learning -  Ubiquitous - connect with their learning outside of school timeframe. Extends opportunity for them to connect with their learning time.  Creating summer learning journey: link here  -  https://summerlearningjourney.blogspot.com/ Rewindable learning - If its worth learning, Its worth capturing - Idea of recording things that our children can capture as they me out at other curricular activities.  Google meet practice: To connect in some way - trouble shoot - mute and unmute Make sure students wear head phones.  Digital Noho - students taking there chrome books home Thats a cool idea...  Using Positive cyber smart language in the learning areas... Empowering - confident connected actively involved - how they connect use it in smart and clever ways Kawa of Care site - What will this look like in our community and for our Whanau?  Ubi...

  LEADING to the NORTH EAST Listening to Claire Amos - around importance of Relational pedagogy and learning pit  Learning Pit video James Nottingham  Learning Pit from James Nottingham:  Wow Tourist - Not leaving it there but going deeper into questioning - What makes a capital? Deeper Concept   - injustice, inequality, Knowledge, Name, lives  Concept: how we look at it? think and question - What makes a capital city? Is it always the largest city?  Conflict:  Tourism - 1. Tourism - Is it only people that travel or include other professions like a teacher.  Russell Bishop   Teaching o he north east… Kaitiakitanga iniiative Effective teaching and learning - Relational pedagogy Importance of Relationships are key - only as effective with teachers who have high expectation and teaching skills.   Teaching to the North east  Developing a warm environment High expectations  Warm and demanding - Family environment for your staf...

  Friday 3rd September Visible Teaching: Google Sites Multi modal opportunities - Learners having choices to create and learn themselves. Visible for the whanau they have access to their children's learning  Five affordances causing accelerated shift  Lear learn Create Share Engagement  Teaching conversations  Cognitive challenge Visibility  Scaffolding Purpose of learning site one stop hub for teaching and learning  Learning is accessible anywhere  Personalise learning via multiple opportunities to access content  visible planning and teaching  Visual Appeal  Taking time to plan. Planning each page just on a piece of paper and pencil Colour is also very important.  Reflection This has been a very valuable session learning with sites which I really enjoyed. There is so much to learn and I really tried to keep it simple with my buttons which I thought was really cool was inspired on how Pt England organised their ...

  Visible teaching and learning   Can we see it or can we not  😎 OUR Teaching and learning is visible Is it visible to our Whanau? Is it visible to Teachers? Is it visible Learner? Is it visible to Colleagues? The whole journey being visible.  Where they are headed and what is coming next.   Planning - Process - Outcomes - Assessment Visibility for us through Hapara / Visibility for the students is through sites Multi modal  Engaging the Hook   learning  Empowering - Multi Modal / UDL  The Hook - Updating content - Design it so that it speaks for it self, Includes parents/ Whanau/ Colleagues - Wow factor to see what is behind it Multi modal: - Engagement, accessibility, Empowerment  and Agency  Cognitive  complexity - Differentiation  for personalisation - One way may not necessarily work for others in the class  I like this slide - The importance to hook our students first in order to accelerate learning Ref...

 Friday 20th August session 4  LEARN CREATE SHARE Spaces and platforms have now enabled us to share  - Bebo, Myspace, Facebook- Youtube has allowed us with the capability to share...  Manaiakalani found that these platforms such as YoutTube could be used as a hook!!!! It is something that we have already been doing Sharing with a purpose - Having an authentic audience - writing a letter to someone and why? Podcast letters to invite them to come in for a podcast teaching around formal and informal.  Blogging - Cybersmart challenges Heres a link to the cybersmart challenge blog great way for students to get into some of the cybersmart etiquette during lockdown. https://cybersmartchallenge.blogspot.com/ Blogging with purpose and encouraging feedback along the way - Giving and receiving feedback - getting students to connect with each others blogs.  Google maps - Roscommon x country  Reflection   It was very interesting listening about the importa...

Creative skills help students become better problem-solvers, communicators and collaborators  Everyone can Create Apple 2018  I like the part about our children becoming problem-solvers, in order to do this that they need to be given the opportunities. Creativity is important for children as fresh air and sunshine.  letting children explore that space - giving children opportunities Lego with groups of students, chess group, podcasts, table tennis club giving them opportunities.  It was ally cool watching heart of the matter - It was interesting what he shared that when they looked at other schools work it looked similar, but with their school their work was very different. Every child is different in they way they express their learning so I think that they were given space and opportunities to explore rather than being modelled what to do so that it becomes Generic This is a piece of work that I was so proud by from a year 7 & 8 student who takes our photograph...

 DFI Day 2 Friday 6th August the journey continues  Great to catchup with our bubble team and thank you Andrew for this link looking forward to having a look at this link.  https://maatauranga.co.nz/ Today is our learn day:  1. Teachers and our children needing to learn the same skills  2. For teachers and professionals to use this knowledge  3. Use of evidence and sharing  4 Being able to swim in the digital space 1 Moving from analogue world to digital world  2. Increasing teacher effectiveness 1. Reading by authentic text - Not teacher generated , text by other people general audience 2. learning by shared ideas and discussion - Student discussion - collaborative conversations DMIC.  What does our school believe in how children learn- What does learn look like in our school. WHAT DOES LEARN LOOK LIKE IN OUR SCHOOL...  Strive for excellence Inclusion language and culture is purposeful  Collaboration with others and feel confident...

  Wow really enjoyed the introductions. Great to see the everyone in my bubble and the vast experience everyone has. Stories whakawhanaugatanga in brining us together.   Bubble leader Vicki shared goals:  Students are supported to acquire fluency using basic tools to use for learning  Teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools for effective achievement planning, assessment and professional learning.  Teachers understand how to use technologies effectively to have impact on accelerating achievement Understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy and how it has been constructed over 10 years to to maximise and impact learning  Thank you Dorothy for the background story of Manaiakalani. I like how you had shared that Manaiakalani is about the people and not the technology. Also the importance of equity that breaks barriers of socio economic stereo types and ethnicity in equalities. The importance of HOPE.  LEARN CREATE SHARE. ...

  Welcome to my professional learning blog. This is a place where I can reflect on my teaching in relation to my Professional Growth Cycle and how they link to the Education Council's Standards for the Teaching Profession