Manaiakalani Teacher Only Day

While on our end of term visit to Auckland we got to attend and present at the Manaiakalani teacher Only Day. It was a great way to finish of the end of term. Lee and I presented Panui from Ngapuhi. It was great to share some of what we are doing up North in the Far North clusters. I was lucky to have Gemma Fleet from Kaingaroa school to share her very sucssefull literacy program from 2020. We where also lucky to hear Dr Dr. Rae Siʻilata and Kyla Hansell the key note speaker who was very inspirational and made you really think about bi lingual language and culture in reading and literacy. It was great to hear the explain everthing experts and have a reminder of the creative ways to use the tool in reading. The other workshop I went to was Georgie and Kiri going over the Reading Observation tool which was good to hear again and have more clarification and analysis of the parts of the tool. It was a great day and I am lookimg forward to looking at the other presentations. It was a great day to end a week of learning and reflecting in Auckland.

Toolkit Tidy that Email

This was a good toolkit to do as it forced me to tidy my own email. It also allowed me to think about what was some of the key tips and points teachers needed to learn and know to tidy there emails. It encouraged me to look at the updates and changes that have been put in place by google. Often I am to busy to read in detail about every update. My favourite is being able to colour my labels.

Hapara Champion Scholar Completted

I enrolled last yar after completting the Hapara Champion Educator course to have ago at the Scholar course. It was a great course that involved alot of work but was very worthwhile doing. I got to unpack the ISTE standards and find artifacts that relate to some of them so got to see some great resources from other teachers completting the course. We also got to write our teaching philosophy and reflect on each others. Giving feddback and feedforward on each others. It was great to get a chance to dive deeply into my personal thoughts and pedagogical practice. Also to dive deeply into the Hapara standards and goals and how they fit with my personal thoughts. This is something that we should regularly do as over time and with changes in the world yours ideas and thoughts change. I enjoyed the course so much I have enrolled to do the next course later in the year the Hapara trainer.

Combined Teacher Only Day

We have had a great start to the year with a Combined Te Hiku and Kiakohekohe cluster Teacher Only Day at the Treaty of Waitangi grounds.This is the first time we have combined together for this day. We had around 140 teachers come for the day. Being the first day back for teachers the request was not to have our teachers being spoke at for long periods of time. The teachers wanted hands on practicle based activities that where not for to long. We put an agenda together at the end of last year utilising on local talents and experts. Thanks to Monica and her great team from the education centre at the TOW and also the great staff from Tautoro School who bought along there resources and shared the great teaching and learning they are presenting at their school. The day was made more special being held at such a spiricial and sacrid place. The feedback and conversation were very positive and enthusiastic. Nexts years TOD will be combinded again and be held in the Te Hiku cluster area we have started conversations allready as it will be hard to bet the great day we had this year. This was the agenda for the day and some photos.

End of 3 Years

What a great journey to be part of. The Facilitator of the Te Hiku Outreach cluster of Manaikalani. We got to celebrate the 3 years in Auckland at the National Library. The first time since last September that the whole team has been face to face together. We all got to reflect on our 3 years this is my slide I presented to the team.

Hapara Champion Educator

For the past 6 weeks I have been participating in the Hapara Champion Educator course online. It was worthwhile completting the course to get a good understanding of the Kaupapa of the whole program and why it was created. It is quite humbling to know it was created in New Zealand for Manaiaklani and is now a world wide resource very popular in th USA and Canadian schools. It was a good reminder to learn about how to use Dashboard and highlights especially the clear formative assesment purpose of them. The most I learnt was about Workspaces as I have not used or created many so it was good to get to create a resource in workspaces and practise using all the great tools available. I enjoyed the course so much I have registered for the next level Hapara Scholar which starts in January 2021.

Maori Language Week

 There were some great resources shared with teachers to help support Maori Language week. I challenged myself to introduce some activities into the cyber smart lessons to support and promote Maori Language.

In my junior classes with Ipads, we created a jr scratch activity greeting a friend and telling them your name. Introducing yourself. So I had to introduce the recording block to the students and the pause timer block so they didn't talk over the top of themselves. The students really enjoyed the activity and the teachers also loved the record button and could see the value of voice being used in Jr scratch. 

We had to use the Ipad record button to record the jr scratch activity and airdrop it to the teacher to post it up to the class blog. The record button needed to be turned on in the custom section of the settings. To add the microphone you needed to hold down the record button and turn on the mic. Teachers found this really useful. 

Some of the great resources shared.