Workflow - Effective Teachers implementing Effective Practice

Connecting with Manaiakalani 

Learn

Manaiakalani pedagogy Learn Create Share was discussed today with the focus being on Learn.  The Learn component embraces raising student achievement outcomes and the idea of connectedness and equity and access for all learners.  At South Hornby - Te Manu Tukutuku the Learn component of Learn Create Share is described as any activity that access, engages and strengthens the learner's existing knowledge.  Teachers use Learn as a vehicle to motivate and connect ākonga with the learning purpose.

Do our teachers understand Learn Create Share in our context?

This is a hunch we need to investigate as a school.  We have had some changes in staff and consequently we may not have the in depth understanding of what Learn is.  As a leadership team it is important that this pedagogy becomes part of our induction process.

There are two tracks to Manaiakalani kaupapa, digital infrastructure tools and changing how we teach and learn in this digital environment.  Both these tracks need to be side by side to ensure seamless digital learning for our tamariki and educators.  We also require effective teachers implementing effective practice.  Professor Stuart McNaughton explains that accelerated progress occurs through the Learn Create Share pedagogy supported by the Manaiakalani Kaupapa. This framework enables educators to manage learning within a digital framework that is highly visible and promotes best practise.

The importance of educators to ensure that we are implementing high level practices was discussed today and how well these sit within the Learn Create Share Framework.   The use of high leverage practises alongside effective and evidence based practise will improve outcomes for children, and teachers using these approaches alongside digital affordances, then accelerated learning will occur. 

We spent time exploring Google Meet, Google Calendar, GMail.  This sessions provided me time to become more familiar with applications I currently use.  The shortcuts for Google Calendar M = Month, W= Week D= Day, will be a timesaver.  I enjoyed learning about the captions in Google Meet and can see how these would be fantastic for people who are hearing impaired.  We also spent time learning about Google Keep, I currently use Google Tasks and I plan to spend some time exploring this tool to see if it improves workflow.

Hapara Hot Tip: go to all classes you want to view and click on the stars of the classes and they will appear under classes on the home screen.

I also learnt how to embed a video into my Blog. My biggest take away from today was to save my Blog Post, - I presumed it saved similar to Drive and when I went to embed my video through HTML view I lost the work I had within my Blog.