Inquiry 2023 - Question 3 - Tools, Measures and Approaches

Describe the tools/measures/approaches you plan to use to get a more detailed and accurate profile of students’ learning in relation to that challenge. Justify why you chose these approaches and tools.

Link to Google Drawing

Planning Support - Help Videos

 I have written earlier in the year about being a mentor to 4 trainee teachers this year. Link to blog post here As part of that, I have been making some help videos to support them in the use of Google Sites and Hapara Workspaces. These are both requirements for teachers to use in their planning and presentation of work to students.

I have made two pages on the Planning Support website, where I have included links out to other sources of information and help and short help videos that I have made. I have kept the help videos short, so that a specific topic can be watched without looking through lots of other information and they can get that information quickly.

Link to Google Sites Help page

Link to Workspaces Help page

Staff PLD - Polynesian Panthers and Walk the Wall

 Links to Readings provided for the two days

Link to doc

Topics and Links

Racism: A framework Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale. Kamera Jones, American Journal of  Public Health, 2000 Aug;90(8):1212-1215.  Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale (aphapublications.org) If you want to learn more about this article listen to this podcast - The Gardeners Tale: https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=a+gardener%27s+tale+camara+jones&qpvt=a+gardener%27s+tale+camara+jones&FORM=VDRE

Te Tiriti and Pacific peoples The Treaty of Waitangi and the va between Māori and Pacific peoples in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In PMN Opinion piece, Melani Anae, 4 February2021. Listen and read about Dr Melani Anae, Associate Professor Pacific Studies, University of Auckland, who explains why Pacific people in New Zealand should take an interest in the Treaty of Waitangi. The Treaty of Waitangi and the va between Māori and Pacific peoples in Aotearoa, New Zealand | Pacific Media Network (pmn.co.nz)

Blackbirding in the Pacific Listen to the podcast: https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/2018648756/blackbirding-in-the-pacific-and-the-search-for-lost-family Read this: https://www.matauala.org.nz/blackbirding-slavery

Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids  The Panthers telling their history in their own words:  https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2021/06/once-a-panther-activist-history-podcast/  Ministry for Pacific Peoples resources about the Dawn Raids and recent apology can be found here:  https://www.mpp.govt.nz/about-us/dawn-raids-apology/ A Māori TV segment here… Polynesian Panthers reflect on 45 years  and dawn raids stuff here… Dawn Raids Television (Full Length) – 2005

Educate to Liberate ‘I am Who I am: Pacific tertiary students and the centrality of ethnic identity for successful outcomes’. M. Anae in Mai Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020, pp.38-48. I am who I am – Pacific tertiary students and the centrality of ethnic identity for successful outcomes | MAI Journal

Topics and Links

The NZ Company and the Wakefields including Edward Gibbon Wakefield  Edward Gibbon Wakefield Biography  If you want to learn more about the Wakefields, listen to these podcasts: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/2018755209/colonial-mastermind-the-story-of-edward-gibbon-wakefield-part-1 https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/black-sheep/story/2018755896/colonial-mastermind-the-story-of-edward-gibbon-wakefield-part-2

Māori and the vote (if you’re feeling creative, make voting cards and get people to vote at imaginary polling booths in different era…) Scroll down this page for disparities in the Māori and European electoral systems: https://www.parliament.nz/mi/pb/research-papers/document/00PLLawRP03141/origins-of-the-m%C4%81ori-seats  Watch this 5-minute Spinoff video on The Māori seats

Passive resistance of the prophets Te Whiti and Tohu culminating in Parihaka Day, 5 November 1881 6-minute Spinoff video on The invasion of Parihaka and why it needs to be remembered:  Pages 5-6 and 10-17 of Te Ture Haeata ki Parihaka 2019 (Parihaka Reconciliation Act 2019)

Rua Kēnana's arrest at Maungapohatu Watch this 6-minute video on Rua Kēnana narrated by James Belich:  There’s a PDF at this website, which includes the history and an agreement to provide a statutory pardon for Rua Kēnana

Te Puea Hērangi’s stance on conscription  Read this Māori and the First World War – Māori objection to conscription and this: Māori soldiers' Great War battle for equality

Funnelling of Māori Kids into State Care Try googling the 20 June 1954 ‘Petone Incident’ where you’ll also learn about the Mazengarb Report  Listen to Dr Stanley’s lecture Acknowledging State Abuse in New Zealand – Elizabeth Stanley    Have a look at this 13’ min documentary on Oliver Sutherland

He Taua and ‘the Haka Party Incident’  Mocking the haka: The Haka Party Incident and ‘casual’ racism in New Zealand

My notes from the two days

Readings - Cross - Curricular Literacy

 Cross-curricular literacy – All subjects need lessons in reading

Why does literacy matter in different subjects?

Introduction to literacy in Design and Technologies

Reading - Student Voice

 My inquiry this year is going to be based around reading. I wanted to see what the students in my Year 11 Design and Visual Communication class think about reading at the moment.

What do teachers in your other subjects do to help you with reading? Why do you think this works for you?

• Not sure.
• Teachers told me to read
• They don't help me because I can read fine.
• I really don't know, They just tell me to read more... but I don't
• Well, what my teachers do to help me with reading is that in class they will go through it with me individually and also with the whole class. So when reading, if there is a word that I don't understand and the others, my teachers help me by breaking down that word and explaining it. I feel like this works because as a student it makes me comfortable and it is clear to understand when they're reading it.
• They help us improve what were tryna explain
• The other teachers help me with reading by helping me understand some of the text that is written on other sites for information and this works for me because i didn't understand some text that was there on the site and had the teacher explain it to me thoroughly
• interesting subjects.
• I'm not sure.

What do you think your DVC teacher can do to help you with the reading that is needed this year?

• Not sure, I think I can read alright.
• Help to understand my tasks
• I don't need help.
• maybe just giving us more tasks that include reading
• - Probably just visit me and ask if I need any help in reading. - Possibly if it's something for the whole class to hear. If you could read the text and break it down to our whole class this will also help me.
• nothing
• Nothing really
• not sure

It is interesting to see that non of the class realised how much reading there would be in the DVC course.

Help that the students are appreciating from other teachers is breaking down meanings of things as they go. They are also liking when teachers help them to understand what they find on the internet in terms of how it is written ( I had a brief conversation with the student who put that answer to get more clarity)

They are liking more interesting topics as it helps them want to read.