Work during 2016
Over the last term my team and I have been working towards developing learning blogs with our students.
I created a year 8 blog which now acts like the old traditional white board. Students now have access to learning 24/7 and from anywhere in the world. Parents and whanau members can also go onto our blog and look at the work students are doing, help students at home and check on the progress students have made via students own learning blogs.
We have also utilize the use of google classroom when sharing practise activities, reading material, assignments when students are needing their own individual copies.
The beauty of working this way is that it allows the teacher to become more of a facilitator of learning by freeing up time to work with individual students, students can work together using shared google doc (and they don't even need to be in the same place to do this) and with time it is my hope that the students become self directed learners as they also have instant access to information they are interested in.
One of the negative aspects of working online and this is the only negative that I see at this time is that students are often very distracted by gaming, facebook, youtube and social networking.
Hapara student dashboard is being trialed at the moment and might help in providing greater on task behaviour.
One of the other ways to combat this issue is to include some of these sites into the teaching programme. ie social networking, youtube, facebook. which I often do in maths and inquiry.
Below is a link to our blog. You will also noticed is that it also links to our student blogs. Please feel free to look through them and make some positive comments on their work. Our students love reading positive comments about their work.
http://tarawerayear8.blogspot.co.nz/
This is a story of my teaching practise. It has my thoughts, feelings, beliefs about teaching and evidence of my professional practise.
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Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Thursday, 22 October 2015
2015 reflection
This has been a fantastic learning year for me. I started the year at James Street school. During term 2 I made a change to teach a year 8 class at Tarawera High school.
On my arrival I first noticed that the class seemed to be in a state of disarray. The students lack structure and routine. They had a teacher that had had a lot of time off and a term of relievers.
Drawing on my experience gained from PB4L, the Incredible Years programme and 15 years of teaching experience, I knew that I had to develop a strong trusting relationship with the students and set a class programme where all students felt like they were being successful in their learning.
I tried group teaching in reading, maths, and writing but found that the students weren't able to self manage and needed whole class teaching in order to develop a healthy classroom environment and establish a level of order.
At the same time I started to develop a relationship with some of the more challenging students in the class and their parents.
I found that providing one on one time with these students enabled them to share their interests with me, home life, their concerns and social issues, which enabled students to start developing trust in me.
During this time I developed a relationship with home through phone calls, texts, and inviting parents to meet with me during my release times. Taking sports group also help to create the connection with students whanau.
I have also gain professional development in the use of google docs, google classroom and using
e-asTTle. I am still currently in the process of upskilling in e-asTTle and have a course to attend later in the term.
On my arrival I first noticed that the class seemed to be in a state of disarray. The students lack structure and routine. They had a teacher that had had a lot of time off and a term of relievers.
Drawing on my experience gained from PB4L, the Incredible Years programme and 15 years of teaching experience, I knew that I had to develop a strong trusting relationship with the students and set a class programme where all students felt like they were being successful in their learning.
I tried group teaching in reading, maths, and writing but found that the students weren't able to self manage and needed whole class teaching in order to develop a healthy classroom environment and establish a level of order.
At the same time I started to develop a relationship with some of the more challenging students in the class and their parents.
I found that providing one on one time with these students enabled them to share their interests with me, home life, their concerns and social issues, which enabled students to start developing trust in me.
During this time I developed a relationship with home through phone calls, texts, and inviting parents to meet with me during my release times. Taking sports group also help to create the connection with students whanau.
I have also gain professional development in the use of google docs, google classroom and using
e-asTTle. I am still currently in the process of upskilling in e-asTTle and have a course to attend later in the term.
Tuesday, 28 July 2015
EOTC and Physical Education
Over the last seven years in have running the school sport and physical education programmes.
Including the GO4it programmes, sports leadership programmes.
This role has covered teaching physical educational activities, introducing and running sporting programmes and activities. I have also being running our school athletics, cross country, softball, rugby 7's, soccer and other sporting codes.
I have been a member of the inter-school cluster sports association and the eastern bay sports association.
One of my biggest roles was running the inter-school athletics sports.
This involved booking fields and sports gear. Coordinating with participating school and the local athletics club, setting up and running the days activities, recording and passing on results to schools.
During this time I have also run syndicate camps. The latest camp I was involved with was December 2014 where we took the students to Hamilton. The past years we have been to the beach and bush. During all of these camps it was crucial that parents were on board. They needed to be aware of school expectations and protocols and their requirement during camp and leading up to camp. RAM's and planning for these event were also another important issue. In order for these to take place all RAMs and planning needed to be past by the school BOTs.
Below are some examples of the planning, photos, training the I was involved with.
Including the GO4it programmes, sports leadership programmes.
This role has covered teaching physical educational activities, introducing and running sporting programmes and activities. I have also being running our school athletics, cross country, softball, rugby 7's, soccer and other sporting codes.
I have been a member of the inter-school cluster sports association and the eastern bay sports association.
One of my biggest roles was running the inter-school athletics sports.
This involved booking fields and sports gear. Coordinating with participating school and the local athletics club, setting up and running the days activities, recording and passing on results to schools.
During this time I have also run syndicate camps. The latest camp I was involved with was December 2014 where we took the students to Hamilton. The past years we have been to the beach and bush. During all of these camps it was crucial that parents were on board. They needed to be aware of school expectations and protocols and their requirement during camp and leading up to camp. RAM's and planning for these event were also another important issue. In order for these to take place all RAMs and planning needed to be past by the school BOTs.
Below are some examples of the planning, photos, training the I was involved with.
Daily Kupu
As apart of staff development we have been involved in creating a weekly kupu that the students will read every morning to the school over the intercom.
This has been very successful for the students and integrating Te Reo into the daily class programme, As well as the daily kupu we give a karakia at the start of each day, before eating, and at the end of the day. I have found the learning of new phrases difficult but have also asked the student experts in my class to help support me in my learning to Te Reo. The students have been fantastic and very supportive.
Below is an example of the daily kupu planning.
This has been very successful for the students and integrating Te Reo into the daily class programme, As well as the daily kupu we give a karakia at the start of each day, before eating, and at the end of the day. I have found the learning of new phrases difficult but have also asked the student experts in my class to help support me in my learning to Te Reo. The students have been fantastic and very supportive.
Below is an example of the daily kupu planning.
Saturday, 8 November 2014
Cloud appreciation
This is a fantastic video. It reminds me to be centered during the tough moments and enjoy life. It also helps me to help the students focus on the positive things and enjoy and reminder to hold on to what is important to them.
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