Manaiakalani "Create" Teacher Only Day

Today we had the pleasure of a Teacher Only Day and this happened at one of our cluster school, Panmure Bridge School. firstly we walked into the grounds and followed the aromas of coffee brewing nd waiting for teachers to make their orders. We were welcomed to this school by their amazing Kapahaka group, ka nui te mihi ki a koutou mo o koutou manaaki ki a tatou katoa. Mahi rangitira ratou, we then listened to an amazing presenter who spoke to us about technology, yep devices how it use to be to how it is now, Fast and Effective. Our special presenter Sir Ian Taylor, he spoke real sense about how great and effective technology is. 

My first workshop was about create a maths game using AI, how excited was I, I used tetris as the game, maths equations would appear and the students would have to answer the equation before they get the puzzle piece. Such a cool and exciting way to learn and play games.  Thank you for this cool idea. 

Inquiry Update

THE PROCESS

I have come up with a way for me to keep my target students engaged and wanting more during maths. 

Step 1 - Launch 

Step 2 - Think About it

Step 3 - Explain your Thinking

Step 4 - Share your Strategy

We have started trying this cool way and it seems to keep these students engaged and wanting more. So I am going to continue using this format for my kids, so they know what is required from them. 

Check back soon, for another Inquiry update. 

2MEKE PRIME

Kia Ora and Welcome to Room 5.

This week has been our first week in full swing of using Prime Online and our Prime Books. My kids are really enjoying this way of learning maths. They enjoy that they have 2 totally different places to learn their maths. The students even love it more when they see that I have gone through their Prime Practice Books and marked them,  I have enjoyed seeing the students progress in class too. When I am marking their books and I see a similar error in the books I mark, I will stop my class, Show them an example that is an occurring error, we go over it together and when they get their books back they will check and correct their mistakes. Overall Prime Online and Prime Books are A for AWESOME. 

                                                  

2025 Inquiry

This year I am looking at maths for my inquiry. I looked at my data and seen I need to help my lower levelled students with addition and subtraction, eventually we will get to multiplication and division, however for now we are just focussing adding and subtracting 1 digit, 2 digit and 3 digit equations.

Stay tuned to see some progress from my target students.

 

Kia Ora, Talofa Lava, Malo e Lelei, Kia Orana and Greetings to you all. My name is Kelly Tipene and I am a Year 7 and 8 Teacher at Point England School. This year I have a very unique class that consists of 14 boys and 15 girls. We are a multi cultural class and we will follow and use our beliefs to be able to merg together to become 1 big whanau. This term our focus is JOY, so keep an eye out for a couple posts that show us JOY from these year 7s and 8s. 

Have an amazing day.

Day 9: Share

 

HERE WE ARE DAY 9 and OUR FINAL DAY OF RPI

Well today is Day 9: Sharing and the final day of RPI, I am looking forward to see what we have in store today, First up is Dorothy and she talked about Tohatoha - Share. 

Explaining the power of Sharing, how amazing is this word. With the Manaiakalani Framework the Learn, Create and Share concept is just amazing. Sharing your work with your learner and colleagues to empower our young ones. I enjoyed this korero and just love hearing about the great things that are happening. 

Being Day 9 and our last day of this amazing course we are now looking at the last of the Pillars of Practice. We will be pulling it altogether today too. Can’t wait for this. Using these pillars to really accelerate my learners in literacy has been challenging but at the same time rewarding. 

Next up we looked at the different feedbacks we can use for our learners. Using this model to give feedback to some of my learners about their work. I use commenting, leaving comments on my learners work for them to check and then amend where they can.  That is my way I can actively keep my summative assessment going in my classes. And to be honest, I think my class enjoy seeing my comments pop up in their work, it indicates to them that they need to get back on their work and go make some changes and then resend it back to me as marked which then indicates to me that they have seen my comment and they have made corrections.  

Getting my learners to work collaboratively has been challenging yet amazing. Knowing that they have to compromise or vote on who is doing what. I tell ya it was hard but they got there in the end. Reading a story, play or a poem and explaining in depth what the meaning or author's purpose was about the text was a hard activity for my learners however they all knew that they had to participate in the activity somehow.  

So my overall thoughts about this programme. 

AMAZING!!!!

I have totally enjoyed my time on this programme, and I can also say my teaching has upped and I see it in my learners as they are more engaged and eager for more fresh and new achievable engaging activities.

So from me…….. HITTING THE MARK!!!!! 

And there you have it. 9 Days of full on intense mahi done and dusted. Congratulations to ME!!!!! 

WoooHooooo.   

Day 8: Create

 Today we are very lucky to have our Day 8 of RPI, second to last one for this RPI course. Can’t wait to see what we have in store. Create, I wonder what we are Creating today. 

Enabling creativity that we as teachers really try to do for our learners. Our learners are empowered by our teachers. 

“Our young people will be CREATORS of content, not merely Consumers”

Has been a slogan of the Manaiakalani programme from Day1.

It is essential to document these creative artefacts and responses by leveraging the capabilities of digital technologies, allowing us to achieve this in ways that were previously impossible.

The WHY!! We as teachers do what we do. 

I really enjoyed getting my creative side working, We were asked to pick a verse of a poem that was provided. Record ourselves saying the verse and link it to a slide with our illustrations for the poem. 

Creating in Reading = Let’s get those Create Juices flowing

Awesome Awesome Awesome. See ya on the next one.