Anita's Teaching as Inquiry Blog

Padlet's have created opportunities for learning to shared, for whānau to celebrate success  I encourage you to go to my learning padle t TWO from this second lockdown 12th of August 2020. Such rich learning linked to our concept of 'Our Local Iwi Stories'. A Junior team's conceptual understanding has been through Māori myths and legends. After our first lockdown on 25th of March 2020 the learning has continued to flourished, adapted, new possibilities and new learnings shown our learning padlet ONE

  We’ve quickly adapted to distance learning on the 17th ofAugust 2020. We are not only wiser this tim e b ut more skilled in p roviding pathways for our learners to be empowered to drive their own learning. School talk shows this through our coloured events. The red signals when a learner's workshop is held with their teacher and the green events provides flexibility for our leaners to drive when they learn these concepts. We've made more deliberate changes to our learning design to incorporate our concept of ' Our local iwi stories' into our design.   Guiding our learners through  the how is an important scaffold to empower our learners. Attendance at workshops is up from the first time and leaning is up on our padlet day one! I encourage you to watch it evolve.  

  Using audio function in Explain Everything, opened up some great opportunities for teachers.  The power of voice record to support learners to build their vocabulary and provide as a scaffold to generate talk. Dr Jannie van Hees talks about gifting language. This shows how we can use the audio function in EE to scaffold discussion. This was another hit at my Create Workshop Search Results Web results

Inquiry Question: Build assessment capable learners, especially Māori Boys to increase their oral language capability to improve their writing                                             How am I going to implement this? Gift language as a scaffold for talking and writing Model picture talk Context related to interests Value high expectations of talk Use multimodel features in my learning design to support writing Scaffold writing frameworks Use Stonefields high leverage practises to enable assessment capable learners Use School Talk to support the learning Student learning: I want to see these learners showing confidence in speaking, and transferring their talk into writing. I want to see learners using their gift of language into their writing. Broaden their ideas and extend their vocabulary. Teaching hypotheses I felt it was important to...

Combi Tool Gathering Data This tool developed by Jannie van Hees looks at the factors contributing to talk. Here are results from my five target learners.  1 - Yes                  2 - Sometimes                        3 - No Summary Mainly our Maori learners find it difficult to share their ideas in a meaningful way. Having the language is barrier for these learners. The learners who find it easier share many ideas, and show overall confidence  Summary This data tells us that these learners find it difficult to respond clearly. Understanding of the teacher can always be a barrier. Therefore important for our learners to have visuals when explaining things. Summary There is a real range in this area. This requires our learners to be creative and innovative in their learning and thinking. Where learners apply their understanding....