Manaiakalani Cluster Teacher Only Day

 

PD Presentation - Rhythm and Pattern

 Each department is taking turns to present a PD session on a Monday morning. This week was the turn of the Creative Arts department. We decided to focus on Maths and specifically, rhythm and pattern in music, design and art.

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Here are some of the rhythm drawing that everyone did in response to the music that was played.

PD - Staff Mtg. CAA's and Multi Choice Questions

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PD - Staff Mtg. CAA's and road blocks / graphic organisers

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PD - Staff Mtg. CAA's and Text Sets

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Manaiakalani AI PD

 

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Teacher Only Day - Literacy with Marc 2

 While working with Marc on Teacher Only Day today, he got us to find a text from our own subject area that we could work with. We pulled out key words and made image matching exercises. Then we put the key words into a separate list to write a summary of the text using those words.

Here is my trial today using a text I found about the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry.

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Teacher Only Day - Literacy with Marc

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Manaiakalani Staff Share PLD

 These were our discussion points about structured literacy collated by Naomi.

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The group shared their reasons for wanting to get more of an understanding of Structured Literacy and shared prior knowledge. Matt shared how SL is associated with improvement efforts for students with dyslexia. Russell shared the principled literacy work they have been implementing at Tamaki College through their literacy specialist Mark Milford. Alka shared the literacy strategies she has been using to get students to identify keywords in text and vocabulary work for recalling subject-specific words. Karen shared successful approaches in Visual Arts for Scanning and Predicting. Jay shared a copy of the Effective Literacy Strategies handbook he has used in structuring literacy instruction in his subject area.

The government has made clear its plans for training teachers in SL from Years 0-3 but we still await direction on how SL will be implemented from Year 4, 7-8 and for the Secondary sector.

Naomi shared names of some of the main providers of SL in New Zealand: IDeal (See Ideal Matters); Liz Kane (Little Learners Love Literacy) and BSLA (Better Start Literacy). The Code is a useful scope and sequence for spelling patterns, rules, and morphology being adopted widely in schools. Here is a useful article in everyday terms on what Structured Literacy is and also from Cognition Education. It is likely that the government will provide a steer on both pathways for using SL approaches i.e. for reading intervention (e.g. Tier 2 students; those well below curriculum level) and for effective literacy instruction using a scope and sequence approach to teaching morphology for reading, spelling and decoding of challenging, and subject-specific vocabulary. The UK has a decent scope and sequence for spelling in their curriculum.

Sunshine are one of the only providers in New Zealand at the moment of decodable texts for older learners with age-appropriate content. It’s called The Reading Road series.

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Reading Links

Balanced vs Structured Literacy — Lifting Literacy Aotearoa

Understanding Structured Literacy | Inclusive Education

Using a structured literacy approach to teach reading: What you need to know | RNZ News

The Code | Liz Kane Literacy

*** The iDeaL Approach to Structured Literacy ***, iDeaL | Learning MATTERS

PD - TENZ Product Design Resources

Staff PLD - Understanding ADHD

 https://inclusive.tki.org.nz/guides/adhd-and-learning/

Staff PD - Executive Functioning - The Administrative Team

 

Staff PD - Understanding Executive Functioning

 

Using the Cricut Machine

 Subsequent to our Manaiakalani Teacher Only day where I presented on how to use the Cricut machine, most of my group have met twice this last week to continue learning.  We will continue over the next couple of weeks.

PLD - Manaiakalani Teacher Only Day

 

Staff PLD - PB4L

 

This is what our team thought of the current PB4L chart and how it is used currently.

We then filled in the self assessment tool to see where we thought we were at in our own classrooms.

Inquiry 2023 - What teacher learning is needed to move forward?

 My inquiry focus this year is going to be literacy with a specific focus on reading. I broke down my thought about this at the end of last year when we were looking forward to what we could do in the following year. Blog post here. So far this year, I have looked at the data for my Year 11 class - know your learner 1 and know your learner 2. I have also talked with members of staff here at Tamaki College to see where they think that my inquiry focus sits in the big picture for the school - blog post here

Before I even think about what I will be doing with the students in regards to this inquiry focus, I need to look at myself and what my needs are.  

What have I done in the past?

• I have given links to where certain items of information is on the internet for students to click on and read them selves.
• Put specific information on my class site (either directly or on documents / presentations) for students to read.
• Supplied physical books on a particular subject for them to read.

Has this worked?

• These methods have not been successful as I was not taking into consideration the reading levels of the students and the information on the internet especially can be intimidating to them.
• Students have not been opening emails that I have sent them with the information / links etc in so they did not get chance to read what I have sent. (this was especially true of the Y9 food tech class)
• This was expecting a level of self motivated reading that was not supported. 

What I have put together in this diagram is a plan for me as the teacher to follow before I try anything new with my students.

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Staff PLD - Dr Rae Siliata

 Link to Tātaiako Competencies in Practice - choose one competency and fill in with what you know from your own practice.

Staff PLD - Graeme Aitken - New Zealand Histories

 

Staff PLD - Manaiakalani Term 1

 

Link to Chat GPTImmersive view on maps