CREATE Workshop

On the 31st of May, Manaiakalani organised a CREATE workshop for our cluster. 

Purpose: Over the past five years, our Cluster Create Staff Meetings have championed opportunities for teachers to Create in all its forms. This year's focus was on how Digital Technologies Empower Creativity.

Manaiakalani’s Pedagogy focuses on: 

• Learn/ Ako

• Create/ Hanga

• Share/ Tohatoha

With another colleague, Ms. Naicker, from school, we focused on Freehand Drawing with Digital Guides. We looked at utilising Kleki and Polyline to enhance our teaching, learning and sharing. 

Below are the presentation slides we shared with our Manaiakalani cluster (teachers and teacher aides).

Consent Forms and First Survey

I gave out Consent Forms to all the participants and I am glad I received all the forms back successfully within a week. It indicated that parents were happy to see their children being closely monitored and assisted in school for their writing.

Once I received all the consent forms, I created a short survey. Then I got my 8 learners to participate in the survey so I could gather some information before delving deeper into my inquiry. The responses are shown below:

From the responses, I have learned that: 

• I need to teach learners about verbs, adjectives and nouns. 

• The learners learn and utilise verbs, adjectives and nouns in their writing.