DFI 2 Enabling Access

Enabling access: Agenda Day 6, Northland Cohort 2: 2019

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Visible

Can our learners see it - simple as that
Making learning visible to our whanau

This is what we were talking about at our last night staff hui. Are we clear about expectations at each achievement level. Do whanau know what this looks like. Need to make it accessible and visible.

We need to make sure that the learning is not hidden from students and whanau. We have in the past. Our google sites need to provide plenty of opportunities for learners how to get it right.

Formative practices where we use WALT etc was the first step to visibility. With digital we can make this a game changer where everything is laid out - turbo chargers the classroom

No Surprises! Keep me updated. Let me know what is going on. This is at the heart of our most effective teaching practice.

Using blogs where students define or create examples of what they are learning to teach others.

In conclusion: The concern we have is that we could lock parents out by using passwords. We need to make sure that this does not create a barrier. We want to bust apart the privacy, so visibility is the norm.

Learn - Rules to create a great site

What is the purpose of the site?  Who is the site for? 

• Get student feedback and buy in.
• If using a theme, keep it throughout your site
• 3 click rule (make it easy for students to access
• Mirror your drive folders to your site pages.
• Always check permissions
• Think Multi-Modal
• Image carousel 

Google Sites

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy and Visible learning?

Visibility - What Dorothy had to say around keeping our learning visible. Can our learners see it get access to it. That we live in this digital age where we can make this totally possible. We talked last night at staff meeting about the feedback we got from a survey from whanau on reporting. It highlighted that parents want to know more about the levels that their children are working at or should be working at. We need to use the digital connection to make this possible. Not that hard to do. As teachers we need to make sure that we make our sites another place of learning. Somewhere where students can go to for learning. Remove any barriers.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Google sites and having time to work on my school site. The more you do it the more you use a range of tools to get the outcome you want. The visibility korero this morning has made me really think about how I can make what we want as outcomes in our classrooms more visible to teachers and whanau.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

Looking at blogs this morning from other sites picked up some ideas around screencastify and other ways of sharing information with students.

• What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

Once I get the Mangonui School site up and working and I am at a stage that I only need to add and refresh (so it is a living document) then this will make my life a lot easier.

Devices DFI

Cybersmart

Learn
Helping our young learners to be safe online
Big message - Focus on the positive - "What would it look like if you were at the right place and right time on the internet?" - Working on my doc rather than not playing games





Create
Opportunity for whanau to learn more about cybersmart
Needs to be with learners - put a time aside to make this happen












Investigate purchasing for whanau
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Learn: Cyber safety - Digital Footprint

Create: ScreenCastify

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What did I learn that increased my understanding of the Cybersmart curriculum within the Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?


There is a lot of online support for supporting the implementation of a solid cyber safety curriculum throughout the school. As a school we need to look at how we have an ongoing programme running that flows with the learning of the day.

Cyber-Safety Curriculum


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

  

Screencastify. I have had it looking at me, completed an online course and only used this digital tool today. A great tool for sharing learning, deepens the whole process. Could also see it used as a way to connect with whanau and give them strategies to use at home. We are looking at developing a new strategic plan - this would be used in 'Digital whanau connections'

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?
Keeping our kids safe online. I have always believed in the concept of supporting our students to become kind and caring cyber citizens rather than monitoring every step they take online. Yes you need systems in place but it should be more about growing the cyber-citizenship. Kids have access to the internet from so many different sources, take one away they will find another. We will review and renew our cybersafe programme using the tools and resources from today.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?
Shortcuts! Thanks they will make the workflow better.

High Expectations

Link to PD 

Opportunity to Learn
When we believe that we can be preserve

High Expectation Learning
Grouping
Class Climate
Goal setting - feedback and evaluation

Focus on Ability Grouping
Effects of Ability Grouping
Teacher beliefs
Effects on student motivation

Teacher Expectation shows throughout the world lower expectations for tangata whenua and minority groups

What has the information made me think about?
What might I do differently in the classroom

Classroom Climate

Pumanawatanga - The heart of the classroom

Rangitiratanga - Mixed ability Grouping
Whakapiringatanga - The classroom, poistive, well managed
Ako - effect of teaching, effect of learning, valuing the student background

Whanaungatanga (building relationships), manaakitanga (understanding culture, my culture is valued), kotahitanga (classroom community)

Goal setting: Rangitiratanga (responsibility for learning), Wananga (joint goal setting, both short and long term goals) Mana motuhake teachers caring about student performance - clear feedback focused on goals - Improvement focused classrooms

Very important that you are setting goals and resetting goals
Teach students how to set goals

Allowing students to choose the learning activity


What can we use from the PD on Teacher Expectations

Goal setting into the classroom
Goals need to be very clear, specific, achievable and relevant to the students

Implementation of goal setting
Personal Bests
Using easTTle 'Gaps' - should know but do not - To be achieved - Need to earn next
SMART

Classroom Climate
Relationships within the classroom

Classrooms that focus on skills and goals rather than a competitive model

Rangatiratanga is a fundamental essential in our classrooms and also a basic human need.

.72 Teacher Relationship

High Teacher efficacy - Believe that they can make a difference

Teacher Warmth - learn the students names etc

Understanding the social structure of the classroom

Sociometric measurement 

Developing a map of relationships within the classroom.

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