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.