DFI Journey Day 2

 DFI Day 2

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

I was interested to learn about RATE (Recognise, Amplify, Turbocharge, Effective Practice) and how we can recognise ako in our daily practice. This made me think - What does LEARN look like in our school/studio?

I feel one of the ways that we can see the learning for our tamariki is when they Respond to Literacy during our writing programme. The kaiako read a book to our kaiāwhina group and then tamariki create their own picture and write about their creation. This can be their own ideas (for the more capable writers) or we have sentence starters for our new learners. Once completed they share their work on Seesaw.


We have adapted this slightly this year to include our Rāwhiti School theme of Belonging so tamariki stay with their kaiāwhina teacher for the writing block. Last year we did the same concept but each teacher did a 'book sell' and tamariki were allowed to choose what book (teacher) they could listen to.

We came up with this idea after 'lock down' to give our learners more choices for their learning as we found that this worked well when we did our Home Learning sheets with various options that tamariki and their whānau could do each week. Here is an example of our planning during 'lock down'.


What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

I learnt about Goggle Keep. I think this will help me instead of having random pieces of paper with 'to-do' notes here, there, and everywhere. I like the idea that if I have the extension on my phone I can use it as a recording device. I thought this might be a great tool when gathering children's voice for assessment, learning stories, and my PLG data. I can't wait to have a wee try of it and see if I can use it as effectively as Emily and Sharon :).

What did I learn that could be used with my learners?

I learnt how to use the record function when I'm the 'owner' of a Google Meet. We currently don't have any Google Meets with our tamariki in our classroom but what a fantastic function to know about if we ever go back into level 3 or 4 lockdown again.

I also attempted after numerous attempts by myself and help from Sharon and Nigel to embed a video into a blog post (see below). In Rongo-mā-tāne the kaiako do the blog posts for the tamariki and their whānau to see what learning has recently taken place. I could attempt to embed a video, on my next post :).

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

With the help of Sharon, I was able to set up my own personal Google calendar that will now show up on my work calendar as well. Now I will be able to see what I have on for work and with the whānau instead of looking at two separate calendars. Now to just get hubby on board, lol.

I was also inspired to tame my work inbox and even though I still have work to do, my inbox only has 467 emails instead of 3000! Now to just tackle my private email account :(.

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