What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogies??

It is more than building relationships it is knowing the child, his whanau, community, and everything you can find out about the child. Embedding that into their learning. Listening to the voices of all the people involved in that student's life. Involving them into the learning. But number one is caring about the child, believing in the child, and creating a secure environment.

Valuing Difference and growth; By Jo Boaler

This is a great article that I think not only relates to mathematics but all subjects.

All students benefit from a multi-dimensional approach that values different ways of seeing and working, that is true to the discipline of mathematics, and that focuses upon the big ideas of mathematics and the connections that link them. Including making conjectures, problem-solving, communicating, reasoning, drawing, modeling, making connections, and using multiple representations.

We need to stop labeling kids and causing anxieties and fear of failure(fixed mindsets). We want risk-takers, problem solvers, students need to feel confident at making mistakes and learning from them and being able to self-correct.

I think this develops in the first year of the Manaiakalani program with the way the activities are designed with students being able to work at their own pace and I scan the needs of the class through observing and asking students how they are going and when the need arises hold a workshop. This needs to be developed as a lot of the students find it hard to be self-directed and rely on the teacher direction. I have to be explicit and tell the students to read the instructions or listen to the videos.

For my inquiry, I need to develop more pedagogical ideas to develop risk-takers, and confidence building to create self-directed learners. Also making sure the students are learning new knowledge and progress. Challenging students and still having high expectations.

Inquiry 2019

For my inquiry this year I was thinking about looking at the best way to differentiate my cyber smart program in schools where I have classes of students that have already worked with me for a year. In 4 of my classes, I have students that have already had a year of cyber smart in 2018 but have a new teacher this year who is a new 1:1 pilot teacher. But there are students also in the classes that are completely new to Chromebooks and the cyber smart curriculum. There is one class all the students have worked with me last year but the teacher is new. I gave these students a google form survey asking there ideas and choices of what areas of the cyber smart curriculum they would like to cover or revisit.
I started off just working with the new students and decided to change to trial a year 1 and year 2 program. As I felt the year 2 students were missing out on good learning time. Having had a good look at the cyber smart curriculum there where many import aspects the students had not covered yet that I could incorporate into a year 2 program. As the students in the year 2 are capable of following instructions, leading their own learning and are very familiar with Chromebooks and google apps it seems to be working OK.

Gmail Updates

About a week ago, news began rolling out from the G Suite Blog about an update to Gmail that introduced a highly-productive new feature: a right-click context menu from the inbox view.

From this menu, you can now right-click (two-finger click) any message in your inbox and get a myriad of quick options without ever needing to open the actual message.

The Options:-

• Move the message to a new tab
• Reply
• Replay All
• Forward
• Archive
• Delete
• Mark as read
• Snooze
• Move to a Folder
• Label as
• Mute
• Find emails from sender
• Open in new window

Understanding Area of a Rectangle Conceptually

This is a great use of materials and technology to gain conceptual understanding in Maths.
Visual is Maths has some great ideas and videos. 

Spark Curiosity: What Do You Notice? What Do You Wonder?

Ways to Use Screencastify

One of my favorite tools great for gathering student's voice, and sharing the learning. This free download has multi ways to use the tool. Great for rewindable learning.

Kaikohkohe Cluster day Presentation