Welcome to 2022 - Looking at my Data

 

Kia Orana and welcome to another year of my professional learning journey.

Wow, what a start to 2022.

- Another covid response outbreak in our country.

- Outbreaks in our community

- testing and testing and more testing

- close contacts and family contacts

- self isolations

- low attendances in schools across the county.

For me... I had an outbreak of Shingles.. this delayed my start in term 1.

After all these disruptions to start of the year.. our staff got together to look our 2021 end of data.

We all thought.. what data???? 2021 data??? We all remembered our last day of school 2021 was back in August.. Home learning and online google meets kicked in..

 

Our darling students have not been at school since then.

In our teams we did the best we could with the information we had to best analysis the data and see the story unfolding before us.

As a Manaiakalani school our curriculum focus is Literacy in Reading.

My class data is interesting as I have a whole new class with new students I know nothing about.

As I looked at the information about my students I started to see my new learners and slowly come to know them.

Yes, it's not the best.. but whose is???

My data tells me,

- they are achieving low with level 1.

- some students have not been reading since last year. (discussion with teacher)

Term 1 2022 Testing!!

yes, it's that time of the year as collect data from my students. It is taking a very long time, with the covid outbreak and families isolating, students are away so, I test who is present and test when students return. 

Reflection:

This year I'm teaching year 2's and 3's. Pretty cool and lots of rethinking for me.

Working in level 1.

Learning and understanding a Structured Literacy Programmes.

This is big year for me as I starting thinking about my literacy programme and the approaches I will research and use to improve my learners reading.

This year on my TAI journey, I look forward to use this platform to show my Teaching As Inquiry progress.

2021 TAI (Teaching as Inquiry) sharing celebrations

   

My TAI journey this year has been an interesting one. The impact of it was not what is expected due to obvious reasons.

and thank you to 

Room 3 tried their best with Online Home Learning with the help and support of parents and whanau.

So, how did my TAI go...

Let's see my TAI presentation.

My goal next year is to actually use my blog more effectively to show my journey of my TAI and so that, I can just present my blog.

As always in teaching, we are always learning. Failing and struggling  is apart of the learning process. If we don't struggle and fail, we don't learn.

2021 Teacher as Inquiry

2021 Teaching as Inquiry 

   

I am pretty excited to use this platform to share my Teaching as Inquiry. As I dive into my teaching practice to explore a variety of methods to improve achievement levels for my 8 year 4 target students. This is great way for me to get these students ready for year 5 next year.

Our School wide Focusing Inquiry Curriculum Area: is Oral Language / Reading

I have broken it down and  I will inquiry into:

How will rich vocabulary words improve student reading outcomes?

As an experience teacher, I look forward to exploring my practice at this new school, where I have been here for the last year.

Lots of new learning and building new relationships with staff, families, the community and my students.

Throughout the year, I will be blogging about my students and teaching and learning and our success and failures.

I look forward to reading and exploring research that can support my teaching practice and assessment.

2020 at Glenbrae School

 

What a year 2020 has been for me. Who would of thought I would start at Glenbrae school during a global pandemic of Covid19 and New Zealand and the rest of the world would be lockdown.

This was my year of moving classrooms. I did really well coping and I worked really hard with all the new learning. I will start with the physical classroom.

Starting in Room 4. Preparations for refurbishment of the junior buildings and moving into the Hall side room. We were in there for about 2 weeks while Room 11 was being painted and new carpet was being put in.

That's when I started to prepare Room 11. We stayed in Room 11 for majority of the year until December.

Then, we had to move again to a little side room called the annex room. We were in there for 2 weeks and then we finally moved to Room 3.

Our new refurbished classroom our finished and getting ready for 2021.

Next year our class will be Room 3.

What a year.

Manaiakalani Create Workshop Opportunity

 

Manaiakalani Create Workshop Opportunity

Amy Tofa and I having the opportunity to share with colleagues to create a virtual library.

Here is the slide I create to support our workshop for creating a virtual library.

On Monday 10th August 2020, I was given the opportunity to teach a workshop at a Manaiakalani Create workshop at Tamaki College.

Earlier this year during lockdown level 4 I came across a Facebook group called Bitmoji Craze for Educators. Here I found an explored a virtual library.

There are number of youtube clips that teachers around the whole shared their creations of virtual classrooms and libraries and the benefits of using them. 

Being new to Glenbrae school and the Manaiakalani programme this was great experience to explore and share my new learning.

This was a cool experience to share the knowledge I have learnt and having the opportunity to share this and help other educators to create their own virtual library and use in their classrooms.

Photos credits: Amy Tofa. Thank you.

Educators hard at work creating their own virtual library.

Thank you Glenbrae school and Manaiakalani for this opportunity.

References: Bitmoji Craze Educators Facebook page

youtube clips - how make a virtual classroom scene

- how to make a virtual library

DFI - Week 9 - Revision

DFI - Week 9 - Revision

As I have completed a 9 week online PD of Manaiakalani DFI this has been an enjoyable learning journey for me.

Starting at a new school during lockdown level 4 and starting this PD lockdown Level 3 and being apart of the level 3 school bubble has been an exciting time for me.

Today being the last lesson and preparing for the Level 1 Google Education exam has had me very nervous.

This is last part of the bringing the pedagogy together and as stated in the screenshots above.

Ubiquitous Learning. 

Learning being accessible, anytime, anywhere and any place.

This just makes education just accessible and reflects how it is evolving.

Today was exam day and those three hours were wow.
Fingers cross for me.


Reflections

What am I proud of?
I am proud of this opportunity to do this PD and work at school that is under Manaiakalani and the numerous opportunities of learning for my students and I.
The structure of Manaiakalani has greatly helped me to know there is help to support my planning and teaching.

This experience will shape my planning and teaching to Learn, Create, Share.


What do I regret?I may regret not using more of the google apps such as google sheets, google keep, google forms and taking more risks in filtering my emails. Otherwise, I need to keep trying and learning and this is to help with my workflow and management.


What will I be taking forward into this new era of learning?
Well, I have learnt so much. I'm loving, using google slides, google sites, exploring multi modal and implementing into my teaching practice.
My previous blogs have outlined my learning and improvements to my planning and teaching.

I will continue to explore and implement into planning and teaching the pedagogy of Learn, create and share. Empowering my students and helping my teaching be visible to my parents and students.

This was great as I was able to share my learning with my husband who teaches at another school, my previous staff members supporting their online learning.

A special thank you to Dorothy and her team and my bubble facilitator Venessa who made my learning journey enjoyable.
To everyone who was on this journey with me, Thank you so much.

I highly recommend DFI to everyone.
Thank for this Professional Learning Journey of DFI

DFI - Week 8 - Computational Thinking

 DFI - Week 8 - Computational Thinking

 

Fist Pump!!! We made it week 8 

Todays session was a great reminded of the background story of Manaiakalani and how it 

evolved from the schools in Tamaki area. The above photos are screenshots of the slide presented.

With empowerment comes, opportunity, making connections, empowerment for our students and teachers. 

The other side of the coin is the many factors of disempowerment and the challenges our students and families make on a day to day basis, such as finance, housing, employment, health, family conversations and the building of children's vocabulary.

With these factors schools are doing their best with the resources and technology available to empower our students with multiple learning opportunities.

Within our New Zealand curriculum it is stated;

  

Our focus for today is Computational Thinking, we were shown this image below in a slide. (I took a screenshot)

This is reflected in the advancement of technology. The  evolution of technology with robots and transport are prime examples.

LEARN, CREATE & SHARE

https://studio.code.org/s/course1/stage/6/puzzle/1

This clip has the best explanation of computational thinking and we need to give our students opportunities to think in a such a way and how we are doing it every day without even knowing it.

Today we were given opportunities to explore different computational sites and wow.. This got my brain thinking.

Check out what I explored today.

Using Minecraft




https://studio.code.org/s/aquatic/stage/1/puzzle/1




Today we tried coding and my group, we explored a coding programme called Scratch.




This was an enjoyable exploration and definitely got me thinking about my students and how this programme could be used and adapted for my year 2's and 3's.

Me personally, I am only good a basics, and it was fun. I enjoyed Minecraft the best and trialing different explicit steps to move my character. I think scratch would be the next level of coding for my students.

Today, there was lots of discussion, advice and tips regarding our google level 1 exam next week that we/I would have to registered and of course prepare for. This is something I / we are nervous and excited about. 
This term has been fast as we have covered so much and my understanding of Manaiakalani pedagogy of LEARN, CREATE, SHARE.
I am good at learning, and sharing and will continue to learn about Create and the different media usage to share my students learning.
So, let the study preparation begin for the exam that I will take next week on Thursday as I have parents conferences next week Tuesday and Wednesday.

Have a fantastic week everyone.