Session 5. Collaborate

 To begin with, again we started off connecting with each other. It was good to touch base with everyone on campus. 

Connecting with Manaiakalani

Visible teaching and learning

- is it visible to the learner, whanau?

Learners who were successful were the ones who knew what the teachers wanted etc- cultural capital.

- Accessible 

- Advance 

Learning site makes teaching visible to the learner, hapara makes the students learning visible for the teacher. 

Multi-Modal 

Goals- 

Engagement- The hook 

How can we make it engaging so it's not just rope learning?

Personalised learning

Universal design for learning- text, visual, audio etc different types of media. 

Accelerated achievement 

T shaped literacy 

Empowerment 

Needs to hit both behavioural and cognitive engagement. 

Introduction to sites

The preview screen is handy to use as you can see how it looks on I pads, Chromebooks and other forms of media. 

Before you give the link to learners you need to publish- check URL so it doesn't have edit on the end!

The link symbol allows you to share the published link. 

Creating our own site 

Below is the site I created this afternoon around the concept of seasons. As a junior team, we discussed what we wanted to focus on, how we were going to hook the learner and what we wanted them to learn. 

The key takeaway I wanted the students to get from my site is that we have northern and southern hemispheres and that we have different seasons for different times of the year, for example, Christmas. 

https://sites.google.com/rawhiti.school.nz/seasons2021/home

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

Today I learnt how to use sites! This was exciting as it means I can help out others in the team to make our class site better for students and whanau. This links to the importance that learning should be visual and accessible for all. It is important for us teachers to remember that we may learn through reading and writing but our learners will learn through a variety of methods such as audio, kinesthetic (physically doing) and many more. It is our responsibility to ensure all learners can learn through multimodal tools.

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

Using google sites more and making all our learning more visible- we do this for reading quite well but need to do the same for other curriculum areas such as maths.