Te Reo Maori with our Learners

Te Reo Maori with the Learners

I was planning to use Te Reo Maori with the learners. I gradually started practising those words what i am going to use with our learners. Once i gained confidence, i started using with them. The learners were quite quick to grasp those words and they started using with other learners. I got encouraged when i heard the learners using with other learners.
So i decided to introduce more of Maori songs, dances and their culture with the learners. The above Slides were my iExpereince planning. We started learning some songs and it was easy for the learners to remember the numbers and colours when they learnt through songs. When i tested them, some learners were singing  the song to find the answer. It was fun learning about Maori culture and their dances like poi and Haka. The Rakau was the best and we tried to use it in different ways.

Rakau song

Rakau song

Hongi

Learnt the days of the week and the numbers in Maori

Doing Haka

Connected Community Day

Connected Community Day

 

It was a wonderful opportunity for me to work with our team to plan and what are we going to to do. We worked it out the ratio of the learners and adult, cost for the trip, safety and the timings.

What Next

I am looking forward to go the ambury farm. We have to sort out the list of group with the adult ratio. We are waiting for the signmee. We will work it out as soon as we get the consent.

PD on Technology

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Literacy support

How do we break the mindset of ‘I can’t read’

We can’t judge the learners based on the ability of reading and writing

‘Failure is not an option’

ICT with learners

Just leaving the technology in front of the learners is not going to work.

How do we ignite the learner's creativity, problem-solving, etA college

ege is a place where a professor’s lecture notes go straight to the students’ lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either”

Textbooks are designed for the average

School drop out was increasing because lots of them were above average...if we support them it would it happen

We need to reduce the achievement gap...we need to teach the tools

We need to prepare not repair

How do we prepare our environment for the learners?

We prepare to design our environment based on different types of learners

We need to give power for our learners

Things are changing...some universities are looking at the portfolio than exam marks

Universal design for learning

Multiple Means of Engagement

Provide options for:

student agency

learning in different ways

Multiple Means of Representation

Provide options for:

presenting content in multiple formats to support understanding

Multiple Means of Expression

Provide options for:

expression and demonstrating understanding

NZ system of education is good, they already thought about it

We tend to look down as LCs

We should give power for the learners to access based on their ability

 

Technology should be easy to use and fun

Just imagine folding a fitted sheet???

Literacy and technology matters for the learners

We are focussed on technology and forget about the kids...we have to focus on learners. Growth mindset helps us to adopt new ideas and try it out will help us to grow.

How do we support the learners who are struggling?

Add-ons

Type in search box

Grackle box

 

Go to word doc

Highlight

Press option escape

How do we get text to speech?

Speak Text in MS Word

 

Technology is too powerful not to have a plan

The most crucial factor is?

students no longer

need to be defined only

by the ability to

read and write

Writing is the most challenging task we ask of our kids. Kids avoid failure at all cost.

Preferences

Keyboard

Services

3M learning

Meaningful

Memorable

Motivating

Describing young people

Because to be successful these days

Thinking, empathy, clarity, manage and partipate

Are we using it regularly in our day today toeaching

LCs can influence other people

 

 

We have in christ church...what are the boundaries for the learners...are we teaching them to use it wisely

I am giving importance to learn something make it more easier or i am busy with my old method and telling i am too busy.

 

Maths

WriQ

 

This helps us to track the learner’s progress in learning and assessments

Kate Sprigg

Technology is wonderful when we use it well.

Young learners learn as they play around with it. Some learners use it well, others may not. But they might start with fewer tools but they gradually start using it.

It allows learners to use their voice. Dyslexic learners are very good at talking than reading or writing. This read and write app helps them to talk and record it. Then they can listen and fix the writing.

Voice Note

Good tool to use it

Good for developing oral language

Learners to develop a pencil case

Learners can ask questions and get clarified

Collecting highlights

Help to scaffold their writing

Highlights different concept in different colours and drop them in in google docs

Typing is challenging for the learners and editing more challenging for the learners

Fluency Tutor

Running record

Learnres use this app, read and send it to LC

Click on the score bar to figure out the level of reading and the running record

Re wordify website - can tell you the reading age of a website. Can use it to reword websites to make them simpler for children to understand.

Text-to-Speech - setting in computers that allow it to read passages of text to students aloud. Provides immediate access for a lot of people. Being read to 1 hour a day exposes you to 4 million words a year. By the age of 14, an avid reader reads 400x more text than non-avid readers. Use as a proofing tool!

Spelling Check

Grammar Check

Read&Write - installs a toolbar. Use bit.ly/FreeRW to sign up for a free subscription for teachers.

OCR (optical character recognition) - getting paperwork onto the computer.

Preferences>Keyboard>Shortcut>Summarise - by right clicking you can use the summarise features offline on a Mac!

Snapverter - change photos to pdfs

Equatio - allows your to create maths symbols very easily

WriQ - Tool to analyse writing

What Next

It is a good opportunity for me to learn about different apps and how to use it with the learners. I have learnt how to use the read and write app, so that i can assign for the learners. The learners with reading and writing difficulty also develop the interest to use the tools through fun way.

Problem Solving -EOD 6/6/17

Educator Only Day

A Mathematical Journey- Heath McNeil

Mark H. Ashcraft defines Maths anxiety as ‘a feeling of tension, apprehension, or fear that interferes with math performance” (2002, p.1)

Why?

Mindset

Challenge to take risk

Find a strategy to solve

Get the answer

Use recipes

Directions to prepare

Follow recipes

Maths should be like

Need curiosity

Being capable

We should be connected  and

We should work collaboratively

Inspire people and get engaged because it’s everywhere.

Maths adventures by Ian Stevens

i.stevens@inspire.net.nz

We learn by doing...Aristotle

Something to try

Something to think

Something to modify based on my own understanding

Why maths is important?

It’s everywhere and everything

Work out the time for our life

Budgeting

Teaching a way of thinking,organising a way of solving problems

Are the learners thinking the way it supposed to be

We should make the learners to be confident, connected, actively involved and lifelong learners

Maths is all about making sense of the world

Think??? How am i teaching? Did i make the learners being connected, confident and actively involved??/

Are the learners inclined to use mathematics effectively at home, at work and in the community.

I see it

I get it

I can explain to others

Facial expression to challenge the learners to think it through

Types of problems

Group work

Problem-solving strategies

Problems learners have with problems

Teaching problem solving

Introduction is an important part or unpacking

Group work is ideal

The catapult challenge on Friday

The ramp challenge

Shared understanding what problem solving

Give opportunity for the learners to struggle

Don't afraid to give activities for the learners to struggle

Push the learners hard,

Give them the next level, they might try

Make sure you stand by them and support them but encourage them to try, not to do it for them

Encourage learners to make their own bump game

Learners to learn self-management

Learners are having issues with 10+, use the bump game which helps them to understand better.

Vowel $150      $199

Consonant $50 $99

S  50

U 150

D   50

H   50

A  150

Make a word

Find the value

Find an expensive word

Find the cheapest place in the world

Learners will be challenged to round up the number, find the place value

Next Step

I would like to challenge the learners with more challenging problem-solving maths so that it will be interesting for the learners to unpack it. I always wondered how do I introduce dice with our learners, but today I understood I could do lots of different problems solving to challenge our learners. I will ask the learners to throw the dice and find the before and after numbers. They could match the ten frames with the number.