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.