DFI - Session 9 - 24/09/2021

 FINAL DAY!!!

Which means exam day, ahhhhh. 

Was actually very surprised about how quickly I finished the exam and got myself a pass!!! 

DFI has been awesome. 

DFI - Session 8 - 17/09/2021

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

Use the word Agency carefully with our whanau. Empowered has a far more positive outcome.

Time to explore TKI resources

It was great to have the time to explore the resources on TKI  - I have found on this course it has been absolutely fantastic to be allowed the time to explore on our own. Teaching makes us so busy so having that time within our day is invaluable. 

Scratch 

I loved having a play on Scratch and this is something I would love to include in my classroom going forward. This is a great stepping stone into coding and I think it wall be something my kids will love!

I will need to do a bit more practise before introducing it, so I know what I am talking about! 

Final reflection

As the last day of DFI teaching comes to a close I reflect on the things I have learnt and the way I have implemented new learning into my classroom. This course has been perfect timing as I felt a lot more confident within my own abilities during our online lockdown teaching. It is also wonderful to have all the slideshows ect to be able to use them for rewindable learning in the future. 

Thanks, it has been a blast!

DFI - Session 7 - 10/09/2021

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

Manaiakalani provides the opportunity for students to connect with the learning outside of school hours. This enhances the children's ability to engage with their work when suits them outside of school hours.

To try and combat the summer slide the Summer Learning Journey was created for children to use over the summer holidays. 1 activity a day for 30 mins. Then this activity is added onto the students blogs, where others can post positive comments. 

Chromebooks - Digital Dig

Was a little tricky to do this without a Chromebook to practise on, but could see it was very helpful to the teachers who have 1:1 Chromebooks in their classrooms. 

Really want to try and push going forward to have 1:1 iPads in our junior classrooms so we can utilise as much of this DFI learning as possible. 

iPads 

We only have around 10 iPads in our learning space with 52 children, so it does make working on an iPad rather tricky. But we have been doing tasks on Explain Everything now for about a year or so. I used it a lot last year with my year 1/2 specifically during reading. 

It was great having a play on Explain Everything and just refreshing my own memory as we haven't used it much this year. 

Reflecting on the Kaupapa of the Manaiakalani Programme in light of COVID 19 , whether you did Lockdown: Season 1 or Seasons 2/3/4, and YOUR readiness for ubiquitous learning...

• What are you proud of?

• What do you regret?

• What have you taken forward into the ‘new’ era of schooling?

I am really proud of the way I have produced our Google Slides over lockdown and being a part of DFI really helped!! I was able to be the tech support person for my team leader, which was great!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE MOTE!!!

DFI - Session 6 - 3/09/2021

Quite a tricky day, jumping in and out for other Google Meets with students and hub teachers. But did manage to get most of the tasks done.  

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

Building connections between schools and teachers. Creates a shared language to be used for all students. Shared focus and goals throughout all of the schools within Manaiakalani. 

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

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

Sites, Sites and more Sites

Wow!!! This was fantastic. Although my students don't have access to 1:1 iPads which limits us a little, I was able to make a Site for maths that our whole hub can use. It was fabulous to have enough time to create and play around with this during the day. As I was starting from scratch, I will have to spend some more time getting it finished and the other teachers in my space can also add to it. It will be interesting to see how using this will work with my learners when we return from lockdown. Take a look at my maths site here. 

I even managed to add tabs for each of our maths strands too!