Auckland Visit June 2019

My visit to Auckland for the week started on Tuesday 4 June observing and following Heather Collins as she visited a Point England senior year 6 class working on their profiles for their blogs. Using and sharing individuals up on the TV and asking students for the helpful, thoughtful and positive feedback and feedforward. Which reassured that I was also doing that exact activity in my work. .

I also observed and supported her in a NE class with students brand new to IPads. She worked with a small group and we went outside and took photographs and went back in and they had to choose 4 favorites and delete the others. This reinforced the importance of learning the basics and practicing using Ipad tools. I then got to observe in Khismira junior class of Ipads and got to see the IPads Blog app in action and some students shared me their blogs and how they post up using the app.

Then I observed in Clarelle’s IPad class they where practicing maths gaps they had found form the JAM assessments they had just completed. Through drawing and writing answers to teachers questions on an EE project.

 Then I got to spend some time with Anne my supervisor working on my Inquiry and effective facilitation and changes I have made to my facilitation over the year and a half. Importance of effective pedagogy, Deprivatizing, Explicit facilitation, Modeling good practice, and Co-facilitating. Wednesday I followed Fiona to Ruapotaka school in an IPad class and across to Tamaki primary. Thursday I got to Observe and chat to Robyn Anderson at Pamure Bridge primary. Looking at her very detailed processes. Great create activities. Acronyms for writing processes. Students shared their learning and blog posts. This was very motivating and inspirational. I got lots of ideas and she also picked my Maths experience. From this, we are meeting in a hangout next week with her senior syndicate to discuss some maths and statistic ideas for year 7 and 8.

Mele’s blog Pbsmelel.blogspot.co.nz
Then Fiona and I met to go over effective pedagogy and Learn, create and share.
4.30pm Thursday afternoon I facilitated my online toolkit.
 Friday I joined the Auckland cohort 2 DFI it was great to learn some more tips on Google keep I love the grab image text tool which can take text off images. Also, lots of good reminders to share with teachers. The good Gmail tips setting up filters and layouts. I then took a group to practice hangouts and sharing screens, turning the mike and video on and off, and leaving messages. This was a good visit to Auckland to get the reassurance of the work I am facilitating up North and the processes and pedagogy I am using is similar to what is happening in Auckland. I also got some good reminders of not forgetting to remind students of some of the basics (control shift V). Photo tools. The visit to experienced teachers class Robyn Andersons, Clarelle and Khismira were great, very beneficial I probably could have spent more time with them.