Professional Inquiry #5 - Checking!

What effect did my changed teaching have on outcomes for my learners?

• 7 students were part of my target group. Each of the students improved at least 2 stanine levels in their STAR test from Term 1 to Term 4. 
• 3 students increased by 3 STAR stanines.
• Each of the students made progress during the 14 weeks according to their STAR and PM results.
• Three of the  students are at. 
• Two of the students are on a trajectory to be AT the standard before the end of next year.

How did this new practice impact on my effectiveness as a teacher?

• DFI/ Learn - Create - Share has improved my effectiveness as a teacher as really understand how technology can be used to enhance learner agency and increase student outcomes.

What can I do to improve even further? 

• Ask for individual feedback from students on a more regular basis, allowing them to have more input into the next learning steps.
• Record myself teaching to analyse and critique practice further, share this ‘teaching video’ with colleagues for feedback/ feed forward.
• Arrange for other staff to observe in class.

Professional Inquiry #5 - Taking Action - DFI!

Participation in Digital Fluency Intensive across Terms 2-3.

These blog posts highlight what I have learnt about ubiquitous learning and how it empowers our learners and puts them at the centre of their learning especially when Dorothy pointed out that there is a clear link between visibility and acceleration.

https://whaeadebt.blogspot.com/2019/07/digital-fluency-intensive-cohort-2-2019_30.html

and

https://whaeadebt.blogspot.com/2019/08/digital-fluency-intensive-cohort-2-2019_20.html

DFI has certainly shaped my understanding of how much power the students have in their learning when they access our class site. They are no longer passive learners who are waiting for direction, instead they enjoy knowing exactly what to do next and the choices in their learning that it offers. This professional learning has helped me to understand that digital technology can and will extend and enhance learning when the student has learner agency and there is high-quality, learner-focused teaching happening in the classroom.

What did I do to integrate my new learning into my practice?

• All learning accessible on the class site, no longer shared via Hapara.
• Must do’s and choices for follow up across the literacy and numeracy areas.
• Providing more opportunities for students to make learning videos, google slides, google drawings to explain their learning to show understanding.
• Focussing on explicit teaching at all times and using relevant contexts for the students (making connections).
• Questioning to elicit connections - Prove it, justify your thinking, extend thinking, developing understanding, apply learning to other situations.
• Modelling Exemplars online – Used every chance to show or demonstrate to students exactly what they are expected to do. 
• Rewindable learning.
• Giving feedback - positive and encouraging to encourage reflective thinking - great you’ve shown you understand by …, you proved it!
• Using plenary sessions with individual students to understand student’s thinking around where they are at and what they need to do to move to the next level.

Te Hiku - Connected Learners: SHARE 2019 Staff Meeting Term 3 - G Suite Training

Positive Thoughtful Helpful

The Term 3 staff meeting is looking at Connected Learners and discussing the different ways that we communicate with each other. 

We discussed the following questions:How do you prefer to SHARE?

• Does it make a difference whether the content you are sharing is happy or sad, positive or negative? 
• Does it make a difference whether it is personal or professional, whether it includes others or only yourself?
• Has this changed in recent years? If so, how? 
• If not, why do you think that is? 

Jorja and I discussed the fact that we would be more likely to share negative information face to face or via a phone call rather than email as text can be taken out of context.

Professionally, I would be more likely to share electronically than through a conversation unless it was a sit down meeting.

The introduction of technology has changed things hugely. You can attend meetings without being in the same physical space, you can speak to family overseas without it costing $1.99 per minute.

Different Ways to Share and Communicate Manaiakalani Document

The Summer Learning Journey is an opportunity for students to avoid the summer slump and they can hit the ground running at the beginning of the year. It is away for students to accelerate in their learning in an authentic context using their blog as a vehicle.