Blended E-Learning Facilitator

Blended E-learning Website

 Assessing our individual and school wide strengths and weakness in regards to blended e-learning.

Placing stickers in each area of concern under the following headings:

Pre-emerging, Emerging, Engaging, Extending & Empowering

Photos from staff meeting

Identified last year:

Good way on engaging boys through writing

Blogging works well in writing plan

It wouldn't be an an add on to our program

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 Book an Online Snack 

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Every kid needs a champion

One of the most empowering and thought provoking videos I have ever seen.

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Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

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My Favourite Quotes


"We know why kids job out poverty, low attendance, negative peer influences"

"No significant leaning can occur without a significant relationship...kids don't learn from someone they don't like" 

"You outta just throw in a few simple things...simple things like apologizing" 

"You were chosen to be in my class because I am the best teacher and you are the best students"

"I am somebody!"

"I deserve the education I get here"

"You say it long enough it starts to be apart of you"

"Minus 18 sucks all the life out of you, plus 2 says I ain't all bad"

"Will you like all of your children, of course not..you wont like them all, the tough ones show up for a reason...although you wont like them all the key is they can never ever know it"

"Teaching and learning should bring joy"

"Every child deserves a champion, an adult who will never give up on them"

PRT Course 15.05.2013

PRT Course
Glenholme Primary School
15th May 2013

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As teachers what knowledge, skills and dispositions do we need in our classroom?

List them in order of important, very important and most important. 

Most important:
 Know your students, manaakitanga, values/virtues.

Very important:
Open minded, be your students champion, ability to turn a negative to a positive, be authentic, enthusiasm for what you teach, create a safe zone, know what you are teaching, know your curriculum. 

Important:
Organised, let your students wonder, be the prettiest thing your class see, make connections, get excited, be vibrant, be courteous, humour, creativity.

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"Having faith" - Believing in students

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Teaching Ideas:

Allow your class to plan their week "we need to have 4 writing, 4 reading and 4 math lessons, how are we going to do this?". Give the students ownership.

Silent drawing transition activity - teacher has put a shape or line in a box that represents the paper (ratios and proportions) on the board and students have to draw something. The class judge it (girl chooses a boy vice versa), criteria = has to be something no one else has drawn (think outside the box) there is a prize and then it goes up on the wall.

Singing transition activity (Black Eyed Peas - Gotta Keep Reading)

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Explicit instructions - Have a purpose 

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Culturally responsive pedagogy 

Understanding and being able to include the wider cultures and Community for students in your class (sporting, classroom, community and school culture)

How you run your reading program, choose your writing topics, class contexts.

It's not the different cultures in your classroom, it is creating an overall awareness of the individual student and the group.

Know the student!

Every student brings something to your classroom.

Each students voice is important.

Enrich the learning of others through who you are and what you bring.

Respond to the need of the students in a cultural way - pedagogical (learning styles, multiple intelligence test, collaboration)

Mason Durie Model

Te whare tapa ono
Taha whanau - Social
Taha Hinegaro - Intellectual/Emotional
Taha Tinana - Physical
Taha Wairua - Spirituality
Taha Whenua - Land
Taha Te Reo - Language

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What is in a name?

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A Culturally responsive pedagogy of relations 

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Relationship centered education. Relationships are paramount to the educational performance Caring and learning relationships ______________________________________________________ Link the observations in to RTC's Needs based ______________________________________________________

Resources:

Monique shared the video from staff meeting - Every Kid Needs A Champion

Had small group sharing of materials
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PMI

Positives

- Professional conversations/collaborating with other teachers
- Discovering I am on the right the track, great to see the transition of my feelings towards this process from term 2 last year to now
- Great to end on the Kids need a champion video


Minus

- Some information was repetitive (however not a major negative as it consolidated that learning)

Interesting

- Different ways to present our portfolio if we are audited
- Resources and teaching ideas!


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Sandra Joseph (Facilitator)
Sandra.joseph@otago.ac.nz

Webiste for PRT/Mentor PLD
www.otago.ac.nz/education/ess

E-PRT Modules
http://www.maukiteako.co.nz

NZTC
www.teacherscouncil.govt.nz

Ministry of Education
www.minedu.govt.nz

TKI
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/

Science Fair Questioning P.D.

Science Fair Questioning P.D.

Choose a question that has not already been done (at teacher discretion based on level).

Different Areas – Conservation, Improving Technology, Futuristic Thinking, Geology, Chemical Reaction, Electricity etc…

Keep questions basic!

Simple ideas can turn into brilliant thoughts.

What could happen if…

What would happen if…

Examples:

What would happen if you there were no birds?

What could happen if birds could only eat seeds?

What would happen if I dropped the Mentos in the coke bottle?

What could happen if we couldn’t refrigerate our food?

What could happen if Mokoia chose to be self-sufficient?

What could happen if Rotorua’s lakes dried out?

What would happen if you left the cheese out of the fridge?

Convergent – Correct but basic, come together, making sense (Converge into your question and key words in your hypothesis)

Elaboration – Expand, add more, widening your thinking (Research into your question and hypothesis)

Divergent – Different, Variety, Creative, imagination (Brainstorm)

Interpretation – Own understanding based on beliefs/experiences/values/culture/opinions (Clear pathway of the process that is going to be taken)

Complex – Difficult, challenging (Avoid this – Keep it simple, at teacher discretion)

Finite – Final, definitive boundaries

Question Techniques

Open and Closed Questions

-          Classify questions as open or closed

-          Explain differences in open and closed questions

-          Change a closed question into an open questions

-          Formulate their own open and closed questions

Fat and Skinny Questions

-          Classify questions as fat or skinny

-          Explain differences in fat and skinny questions

-          Change a skinny question into a fat question

-          Formulate their own fat and skinny question

The answer is ‘Fame’

List 5 questions:

1       1) What do many people want but can’t cope with when they get it?

Ask a famous person a question:

Tutanekai – How did you choose the best bone to help the sound travel across the lake to Hinemoa?

How do you spell ‘H’? 

- 8ch

- Eightch

- A-ch

- Hche

- Aitch

- Aych