Google Jam Board

I learnt about Google Jam Board. Since I haven't used it beofre so I went on Youtube to do little more research how to go about using one.  

 

Example of the Jam Board.

Future Focused Learning in Connected Communities

We had Fiona at our school regarding the above topic. Particular focus was given to slides 7-10

Manaiakalani Writing Moderation Oct 2020

I went to Stonefields School to do my E-asttle Writing Moderation - Professional Development (2nd one for the year).

Literacy across the curriculum

This toolkit is about exploring one way of creating T-Shaped Literacy tasks within a Science and Social Science context.
 

Creativity out of the Box - Toolkits

Various ways we educators can utilize multimodal teaching approaches to make teaching more fun for learners and reduce our workload. This toolkit was about providing some resources to support learner creativity without always needing to provide a template.

Blogging Basics: Getting Started

Teacher Dashboard - Posts & Comments

To check the comments left by others on a child's blog. 

Can also delete any malicious comments from here as well.

Once the class teacher has entered the Email notifications, he or she should always be notified via email. In an email, the teacher needs to send the email into the spam folder to stop malicious email from coming. It will stop that comment coming into Teacher Dashboard as well.

  Posts - teacher can always check which child has been posting their comments and who isn't.

Blog Settings - on Teacher's Device

 New Blogging settings.
Can scroll down and select - Revert to Blog Settings (it's easier) and can always change back to Try The New Blogger.
It's important to check the Posts & Comments section so the teacher can always be notified if there are any comments being posted on the blog.
Also, the class teacher's Email is paramount to receive the notifications.

CREATE Workshop No. 2 - Book Creator

 The second workshop I attended was taken by Dorothy Burt which was about - Book Creator which is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books (Chromebook).

CREATE Workshop No. 1 - Authentic Cultural Experience

Today I attended a Manaiakalani CREATE Workshop at Tamaki College. 

I attended my first workshop by Poto Faalili and Christine Tupou and they talked about - Create promotional resources to promote an authentic cultural experience.

Teacher Only Day 2020

GLEN INNES SCHOOL

Teacher Expectations

Mastery

Rationale:

• Accelerate student learning in all areas of the curriculum, with a special focus on the school-wide goals.

Procedure:

• Know the learners.
• Employ explicit teaching strategies.
• Provide students with effective feedback.
• State the focus of each lesson.
• Visible & rewindable planning.

Tools to employ to meet the expectations:

• 1.  Create and follow a focussed timetable...  

The class timetable is to cover the following teaching areas:

• Maths - 1 hour per day   (300 minutes per week)
• Writing - 1 hour per day (300 minutes per week)
• Reading - 1 hour per day (300 minutes per week)
• Cybersmart       1 x 30 - 60 minutes per week
• Library               1x 30 minutes
• Topic -             at least 2 x 30 minutes per week. (60 minutes)
• Sport - at least 2 x 30 minutes per week [ Sport Auckland + Teacher follow up ] (60 minutes)
• Te reo -             at least 1 x 30 minutes per week (30 minutes - teacher remains in the class as the lesson is delivered.)                                       
• Arts - Cover all 4 strands over each term.

Within each discipline, achievement objectives are identified for four interrelated learning strands: Developing Practical Knowledge in the Arts, Developing Ideas in the Arts, Communicating and Interpreting in the Arts, and Understanding the Arts in Context.

• 2.  Create a word rich environment in the classroom.
• Employ the 3 wall system:
• Topic wall
• Learning wall
• Long term displays

• 3.   Employ the most recent data as a starting point for each student.
• Track ALL students (Reading, Writing, Maths) with a reporting requirement for priority learners.

Examples of some teaching strategies:

Feedback:

Provide feedback by using a general marking code in writing:

Marking Code:

Gr - grammar mistake                    Sp - spelling wrong

P - punctuation error                      pp - personal pronoun error

T - wrong tense                              ww - wrong word any other suggestions?

Provide oral/ written feedback 

daily for the lowest group in your class,

often, for the second lowest group in your class.

at least every week for the top group in your class.

But always for groups in  guided teaching contexts….provide feedback on the language focus that is being taught.

Shared Planning

Visible

            Ensure your planning is clear and easily understood in your relievers folder and accessible on your class site.

The planning must be visible, up to date and actually reflects what is happening in the classroom .

Rewindable

Important teaching/learning strategies through the creation of DLO’s  to be rewindable for students.