Haratua Hui - KPMG # Rua

Living the corporate lifestyle for a day was a great opportunity of what working in an office space might look like for our tamariki.  The soundproof booth was a great addition to the workspace, I personally would benefit from a quiet breakout space during the day to reflect or connect. 

Listening to my MIT colleagues present where they were at gave me an opportunity to consider what I needed to do next and the steps to get there.  I still need to include student voice by interviewing individual students who want to share their understanding of how to answer questions.

Where am I at: 

• I need to do further investigation gaining student voice,
• Start using the digital tool - a google doc template, the highlighter tool and find tool.  
• Collect examples of written text from different curriculum subject areas to provide cross-curricula examples. 
• Connect with secondary staff who might be interested in trialing this digital tool in their space.
• Pull together/create/represent key points from the research I have read thus far. 

 

Thanks MIT team for a great hui.

Aotearoa NZ Histories

I learnt that the Aotearoa  NZ Histories curriculum document supports the Social Sciences curriculum and is similar to the Digital Technology Curriculum and Technology.  I learnt that there is a lot to cover however this document shows the progressions very clearly. I also learnt that looking at whose perspective articles/documents were written is important and also important to teacher Year 9/10 to be critical thinkers. Two things I found interesting was using the images to create discussion and the way the curriculum is has been split into Understand, Know and Do. One thing I would like to learn more about is my own family history.

Where to next...

Our Google meet clarified for my the next steps: 

• Assess student's attitude to answering questions via a Google Form.
• Ask students  - what strategies, 3 steps they use to find the answer to a question?
• Prototyping this term - whole class example, small groups, and then individual.  
• Giving students the opportunity to learn to read online - digital copy as opposed to paper copy.  
• QuickFire using CRTL F to find words ie during the reading comprehension test, investigate what other shortcuts are available to students? 
• Triangulate data: