Supporting Teachers

Today I used what I have learnt at Manaiakalani digital fluency intensive course to support another teacher (My mentor teacher). We started off with a review of my new professional site and how I am linking my blog to the new Professional Teacher Criteria's. Then Vienna mentioned she needed support on several things. Some things I supported Vienna with was google drive, I movie and embedding a video onto a blog.

Incredible years review

This term I have been very lucky to have the opportunity to attend "Incredible Years Program" for teachers. It is a program that goes well with 'Positive Behaviour For Learning' (PB4L), as many of the philosophies which are taught line up nicely. We spent each lesson going up the pyramid in the picture, looking at a number of ways we can support students in making good decisions and their learning.

Using this pyramid each session we came up with several goals to focus on. Some of my goals were:

• Focus on using "when... then" commands to make sure instructions are clear and simple.
• Teach my students to give and receive a complement.
• Use group incentives to promote teamwork.
• Identify behaviours I can ignore while keeping students safe.
• I give more attention to positive behaviours than to inappropriate student behaviours.

Sue and Claire who were the facilitators of the course did a wonderful job at presenting the content of the course in a fun and enjoyable way. Claire even visited my classroom to observe how I was implementing the incredible years program in my classroom. You can read the observation notes here and I must say they were so positive and a delight to read.

After Tuesday 27th June session it was time to say good bye to my fellow students, but also a quick graduation ceremony. This course has done two things to my teaching practice, first it made me feel confident in what I have been doing in my classroom and also it has given me more tools to use in my classroom.

Last Manaiakalani Intensive Day

Today we had a brief overview of opportunities that are offered to us by Manaiakalani, which was very exciting and inspiring. Afterwards, we had a few hours to refresh and study for our google exams.

After 2 hours and 58 minutes I had past my Google Level 2 exam! Perfect! Soon you will be able to see my badge along with my Apple and Manaikalani digital fluency badge on the side of my blog.

Another interesting part of todays course was having a sneak peak at the draft copy of the digit technologies progressions, which will soon be added to the curriculum.

Finally my certificate arrived after I had to get it resent 😞

Day 6, Manaiakalani Intensive

Agenda:

Connecting with each other

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Learn: Digital content introduction

10:00 Morning Tea

Learn: Digital content introduction

Hapara Teacher Dashboard and Blogger

12:30 Lunch

Create: Making meaning of content

Share: Embed and Rewind Content

3:00 Weekend

Today we spent most of the day going over sites and creating a new professional site we can use for the new teaching criteria, which are coming out in July.

The main new learning for today was learning how to image map using coding. A neat way to start learning how to get your head around html coding, although I thought it was quite time consuming compared to using google draw. If you have a look at my embedded site (Below) you can see the main buttons which I created on google draw and the one I created using image mapping. I decided to keep the google draw buttons, as I did not have to edit the image as much. so the image mapping washed out the colours a lot.

Day 5, Manaiakalani Intensive Day

Agenda:

Connecting with each other

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Google Certification Exams

Learn: Digital content introduction

10:00 Morning Tea

Learn: Digital content introduction

Hapara Teacher Dashboard and Blogger

12:30 Lunch

Create: Making meaning of content

Share: Embed and Rewind Content

2:30 or 3:00 Queen’s Birthday Weekend

Today we stated looking at using sites and how to use them in the classroom. We use Magpie's Baking Day as a start to creating a week unit around bread.

To brainstorm ideas for our unit the year 1 - 3 teachers used padlet. a neat tool for grouping and sharing ideas with a team. Using what we came up with I created a quick draft on google docs for my site.

Some key things to remember when using google sites to keep it aesthetically pleasing are to use a white back, keep to 3 colours, use the same font and use the rule of thirds. This is just a simple guide for creating a website and can be changed.

Here is my unit for Magpie's Baking Day you can click on the buttons to look at the different activities.

Day 4, Manaiakalani Intensive

Agenda:

Connecting with each other

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Learn: Digital content introduction

10:00 Morning Tea

Learn: Digital content introduction

Hapara Teacher Dashboard

12:30 Lunch

Create: Making meaning of content

Share: Embed and Rewind Content

3:00 Weekend

Netbooks
A very interesting activity was the digital dig, great way to get students familiar with using the chrome browser. You can have a go at it here 2017 Digital Dig

Here is a copy of my own digital dig 

I-Pads
as today was about looking into the digital devices which our students use it was the junior teachers turn to show the seniors how its done. The 3 junior teachers shared 1 EE activity each (2 maths and 1 reading). I shared the "Keep trying" activity. Here is an are the EE which I completed.




Side note, I used embed to insert these videos. Much quicker than having to upload to Youtube.



Create
Making meaning of content

Using Screencastify on a Chromebook

Sharing is about authentic audience and feedback

Your task is to choose ONE of these for a screencastify commentary

1. Sign into blogger and explore your learners’ blog statistics. Choose the child with the most views and record your thoughts about why they might be attracting views and the type of comments they receive
2. Read this on P18 about The 4 Fundamentals of Feedback to students With the doc open talk about one of the 4 points and give example/s of when you have done this with learners

Choose a blog post and discuss the type of comment you would leave on this post using the Manaiakalani feedback mantra “Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful’

TESOL PD - Run by me

I ran a workshop for the teachers at Glenbrae Primary as a series of PD session going over TESOL strategies to help support our students. My session was on how to use picture dictation and dramatised dictation to empower our students, particularly ESOL students in speaking, listening and reading. Have a look at the notes I created and shared with my colleagues below.