Maths Warm Ups

 What makes a great warm activity?

Does it enage everyone?

Is it easy to learn?

Doese it provide the right level of change?

Can it be adapted for other levels or focus?

Is it easy to prepare?

Does it develop fluency of the Knows and activate the dos?

Other ideas for activities

• Half and double it
• Odd or Even numbers
• factors
• Place on the number line

Another good idea is if the answer is 12 what could the problem be.

Another warm up is I Spy.  Put an array of playing cards up 4x4.

Use these questions

• a number more than...
• a number less than...
• a number between...
• half of ...
• Sum of...
• Difference of ...

Maths Bot  great website https://mathsbot.com/

Another good site with lots of Maths starters.https://mathsstarters.net/

Bowel a fact can be doe as a whole class.

https://solveme.edc.org/mobiles/

https://numberle.org/

Māori Langauge Course

 Tēnā koutou i tō mahi i te akoranga.  Thank you all for your hard mahi this term.  Below is a brief outline of what we covered each week and some accompanying slides to aid in your learning.

If you have any questions or need something clarified I will be at mahi until the 18th December so feel free to email anything through.

Week one,

Whakahua practise, "are there three or two" - a, e, i, o, u

mud eye said quickly sounds like marae

inga the winga, sing a song for nga

cuddle, huddle muddle for rolling your r's

Week 2 

Greetings and farewells, slides give you some options, remember to not take on too much at once and to introduce a new greeting once you've nailed one.

Week 3 

Kei te pēhea koe? How are you?

Ko au - me

ko koe - you 

ko ia - him/her (singular)

Week 4 

Introducing te reo tohutohu or instructional language.

Whakahokia - put it back 

Tīkina - go and grab, really locking in the difference between 

Te - one thing

Ngā - more than one thing

Tō - your (singular)

Ō - your thing (plural)

Week 5

Homai and Hoatu, still using objects in the classroom (do you remember any of the actions we made up?) combining with te/ngā tō/ō

homai ngā pukapuka,

hoatu te pene rākau ki a Jimmy

Week 6 

Recap on mihi and kōrero tuakiri, what is the difference between pepeha and mihi.  DIfferent reo for acknowledging mountain and river if you don't have a whakapapa connection to that land.

Week 7,

Expanding on kei te pēhea and adding a new tense marker or pūmahi.  Kei te present tense.  I - past tense? Also adding in locations 

I pēhea te hui? - How was the hui? 

Also remembering that the answer to a question will start with the words of the question, ie,

I pēhea te akoranga? - How was your lesson?

I pai te akoranga, - the lesson was good 

Kei te pēhea te haerenga? - How is your journey?

Kei te roa te haerrenga, the journey is long!

As well as the karakia we practised each week and some kīwaha thrown in it's been a pretty busy and fulfilling term together e hoa mā.  

Link to all the Slides.

TOD Term 2

 Teacher only day we discussed how we are meeting the aims and did 3 workshops.  I did one on Reading Fluency and phrases to use in the class in māori.  The last one was looking at a creation narrative.

Louise Dempsey Introduction to Decoding

 

Decode for comprehension.  Decoding is decoding, reading is comprehension.  

Sound research that acknowledges this is a sound system.  Great to hear that systems that I use are still valued. 

Helpful labels to support strategies in reading.

Continuous sounds you it isn't a short sound like ffff.  d is in your voice box and b is in your mouth.

Year 3 if still struggling go back and go over their vowels.  This is a handy card for them to use.  Can be downloaded from yolandasoryl.com

PD NZ History Curriculum

Teacher Only Day - Reading

This was a great course to look at what you have been doing or forgot to incorporate into your class.  

Here are a few images of ideas that really resonated with me and remind me of some good ideas.

Great idea to develop word knowledge.

I like this simple idea about the reading process.

Reminder about all the different comprehension strategies. Some need to be left for when they are older.

You need to be able to have a balanced reading program.  The idea of I do, We do and You do is a great and a simple way of looking at it.

These prompts would be great to support the discussion around what the students have been reading to help support them to develop the skills required to lead a group discussion and build on each others ideas around the reading topic.

Really like shared reading and how it opens up students to a wide rang of texts that they wouldn't read.  I also like how this is the place to teach strategies and when they come to the guided reading that is where they have the chance to practise them.

These last 2 ideas are around independent activities for after reading.  It is important to allow students to return to the text to help them deepen their ideas.

Wanaga 2021 Notes

 Learner needs a purpose for reading.  They need to have an effective reading experience.  Knowing what you are learning to do and knowing what you need to do when reading.

Examples of some teachers examples.

Text Sets

Unified understanding so we need to show the students can learn from one text to another.  Couple of examples.

You don't plan for high order you won't get to it.  Purposeful about open ended questioning. It needs to be planned for.

Extended discussion is different from questioning.  It goes around the children not involving the teacher.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADAY9AQm54

Students are invited to discuss and as the teacher you are letting them do the talking.

Students need to learn about how to have a discussion.

Useful slide to explain ideas.

Some examples about critical literacy.  Sharing ideas will help the group develop their understanding about what they are reading.

Transfer strategies have high effect size on students learning.

Transferring vocab knowledge.

Students believe that the errors that they make are helping to develop their understanding.

Just a reminder about some of the programs that students/teachers are using.

Awesome slide to share characteristics of capable visible learners.  Students need to know what they are doing and make adjustments to their learning.  This will allow them to learn. Students need to know when they need help and what they need to do when they need help.

Links to Resources

• Class on Air reading examples

• Teacher case studies (2017)

• Literacy exemplars website

• T-shaped literacy information

• T-shaped literacy teacher info videos

• T-shaped literacy for year 1-3

• T-shaped literacy exemplars spreadsheet

• Developing critical thinking presentation

• Toolkits archive - searchable

• Secondary Support

• Secondary Connects

• MIT inquiries 

• Facilitation team

• Cybersmart site

Sunshine online - free for Manaiakalani

• Almarode, J., Hattie, J., Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2021). Rebounding and reinvesting. Where the evidence points for accelerating learning. A GOLD paper. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Retrieved from https://us.corwin.com/ en-us/nam/white-paper-reinvesting-and-rebounding

• Text analysis and finding evidence in text:

https://nmssa.otago.ac.nz/insights/INSIGHTS_English_Making_Meaning_2019.pdf

• Multimodal text and critical literacy:

https://nmssa.otago.ac.nz/insights/INSIGHTS_English_Multimodal_2019.pdf

• Oracy in the Classroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADAY9AQm54

• Disciplinary Literacy

          https://c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Shanahan_Shanahan.pdf

MIT Presentations

Provocation

Decide on a goal.  Name our goals and do something deliberate tasks, exercise, changes to my teaching.

Building  resources and space to work on the SMART Goal that you set.

Teacher sees themselves as a learner.

Pause Breath Smile PD Teacher Only Day

 What a wonderful day doing PD.  This was very explicit teaching to demonstrate this program.  It was wonderful how you can use it in your personal life to manage stress and life as well how you can support students to become more resilient as well as developing very helpful skills to support them with learning and life.

https://pausebreathesmile.nz/

Lead Teacher Meeting Term 3

It was very interesting listening to Naomi go through her research with us. I like the idea that we are still looking at reflection on their learning. Students can be put into the teacher by using their learning to share with other students. Loved the idea of the preposition in, under and videoing of the task.

DLO sits nicely in the new Digital Curriculum. Student Design for Learning promotes learning for other students. The features of the DLO should have opportunities for students to teach others.

Here are some DLO's from educators. https://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/1390357/fair-test

Multi modal needs to have flow and the red make you play attention to the language.

You support the learner by cueing them to specific text. You could link this to a glossary of definition. The image draws the reader in and the writing is a supplement to support the picture.

This one doesn't draw the reader into what they are learning. Picture doesn't even relate to the text. We need to work on students collaborating more on what they are working on and record them during the process. Students can become designers of text.

 Teachers need to improve their word banks so students can incorporate it into not just their writing but into their oral language. How do we get students to create Student Design for Learning?

Ask students how they can share their learning to teach other students about their learning. Keep the idea of process and product. We want to be able to give them creative agency over their learning.

In video you could have the words come up over the speaking especially to incorporate the specific vocabulary that they need to share.  Students need to have specific learning outcomes in our instructions.

Great idea about the nudges to make DLO's way more student designed for learning. (Note to self check slide show nudges). If a blog post had a great dialogue highlight this in your class. Discussion is a great way of learning.  With their DLO's you want to be able to build the language, explain the power of the mode. Communicate how you want to combine a visual and a written mode in your DLO.

Getting creativity out of our students so that they can share learning that shows diversity of DLO's.  What we are really wanting to do is leverage the digital tools to give deeper learning. 

Last thoughts for me was make sure all our teachers have a shared understanding about what a DLO is.

DFI 7 - Media

Another busy day on the DFI.  Was great to see how drones are used within the school to share school events.
Using the Laptop might be a really good idea to film in class for other work.  Having videos and movies on our school site sharing our school would be amazing.

Asking for permission for songs and then sending them the movie so that you can use part of that song is a great idea.


Camera - Osmo Pocket (Gimble Camera)
DJR Spark
Parrot

Connected - The default is Visible

It is amazing to be part of this connected network.  The opportunity that this gives us as teachers and our learners is endless.

If you are all paddling in the same direction, you have greater power, you are more efficient.

To be connected you have to share.  The act of sharing creates connections.
Having a one stop shop where you can get PD for many different areas is such a great help for you.

I need to have a look at the slide that Dorothy did about growing your blog as am really interested in how I can grow my students blogs.

We need to also remember that these are just as important as the Learn Create Share.  We need every aspect to connect.  Empowering people is very important!  

Put all the information of to the side of the slide or the Google Draw.  Amazing to put all the information that they might need.  I usually stick the stuff I don't need on the work for that week.

I am going to look at going back to planning on the slides so that I can stop planning in two places.  

Time to Create

I have added a photo to my class site and linked the students individual blogs to it using a Google Draw.  I am going to take a better photo and make sure I have the whole class here.  But it looks so much better.  Tui Site  

Put in zzz where you want to put the video in compose.  Then go to Html and click find "control f"and type zzz and insert embed code in that spot.  Change the true to false to loop your animation and start your animation.  I love this idea as you are now giving movement to your blogs that is making more movement in our blogs.

This has been such a great time learning about the code and how to make animation more animated!

Thanks Kent :)

DFI Week 4 - Computational Thinking

Well what a huge day!  There has been so much learning.  It was good to hear Dorothy talk this morning and reinforce what share is all about.

Here are some of my takeaways from today.

How we share can be very different.  The mode of sharing has changed but not the connection we make when we share.

Sharing gives our learners the authentic audience in an online space.  The online world removes the constraints that if you weren't at something you missed it.

How we share limits the ability of who hears or sees what we do.

As the digital has come into our life the sharing has become easier.  The audience has the choice if they want to read or listen to your work.  

Blogger is the choice even though it is not the flashest but it has all the capabilities that we need.  Blogger is a great place to teach our young people to be cybersmart.  Blogger as secure and a safe place to be in an online environment.

Share to learn gives the students feedback and so the learning can keep on going and can support accelerate the learning outcomes.

Computational Thinking

Trailblazers Site

Left side is when you look at instagram.  Right side is when you build instagram.

Binary

You need to fill up the box completely.  You can't have a box that is not filled.

I have never seen this before and I really struggles with it to start with but once I got my head around it.  I am going to have a go with this in my class this week to see how they go.

Coding

Comput IT - Toxic Code:  This is great for when you have been doing the hour of code in your class.

10 Block Challenge

MineCraft Hour of Code

Playdough, Tin foil, and paint can al be used to support conceptual thinking and the new curriculum.  Make sure you think about what you will need before spending lots of money.  I like the idea that if you get the students to pay for the equipment (less than $8) then they get to take the equipment home.

3D Pen use PLA for the fill.  Masking tape is a the best way to use the pen on so that it makes it easier to get off.  

Using scratch was great today.  It was nice to sit through a lesson as I am slowly learning about it but cannot keep up with the kids and what they know.  I am going to try this with my class this week.

I am just putting this in so that I remember this make of Robot.

Another DFI done and a brain filled with information again!