Monday, 12 October 2020

A closer look at guided reading - Sheena Cameron & Louise Dempsey

 A balanced reading programme

-Modelled reading 

-shared reading

-Guided reading

-Independent reading

The development of reading skills and strategies

-Developing a love of reading

-Developing oral language and vocabulary

-Getting ready for reading - Early years

-Learning to read- School entry

-Developing independence as a reader - Junior primary years

Comprehension Strategies

-Activating prior knowledge

-Synthesising

-Making connections

-Summarising

-Visualising

-Questioning

-Inferring 

-Predicting

Critical thinking

Teach Conversation prompts

Self-monitoring strategies for the learners

How do I check my reading?

Look right, Sounds right, Makes sense


Guided Reading

Students gain most from guided reading when they have developed a number of understandings about texts. These are usually best gained through shared reading and oral language activities.

Suggested structure for guided reading
-Activate prior knowledge
-Predicting
-New Vocabulary
-Tricky concepts/ideas
-Lesson focus - Unpack the learning focus for the group-practise if necessary

What next
I will take into consideration when I do my planning and I will introduce these ideas and implement it when I do my guided reading workshop with my learners.


Tuesday, 4 August 2020

Transition to school with Jill Skjottrup

The characteristics of play by Jill Skjottrup

Noticing, Recognising and Responding

We should observe them first, it's a formative assessment for NE (We can't just ask the learners to swim)
How can we change our practice?
Why should we be concerned? Learning, the schedule is very tight, not flexible because of the number
  • We need to learn who the learners are
  • Introduce a buddy play (iExplore)-cross pollinate
  • When are we going to do the real play
  • What kind of environment we give for the learners
  • Learning is the process, not a product
  • Play is all about exploration
  • Self-chosen and self-directed
  • Contains structures or rules established by the players by themselves
  • Imaginative, non-literal and removed from reality
The sacred URGE to play -Kimberley Crisp-Pennie Brownlie


Building relationships with children and parents, visiting them through skype

Relationships, engagement in learning, learning dispositions, identifying as a learner, belonging/wellbeing at school
  • Learning areas: Physical play, language play, exploratory play, constructive play, fantasy play, social play
  • set up like a house, dining, living, kitchen, etc
  • Urges in children's play (gathering, transporting, deconstruction, huts, throwing, enveloping, connection, posting, patterning and ordering, rotation, orientation, transformation, climbing, jumping, digging and burying, tug of war, tumbling and wrestling, running and chasing, playing with water, playing with fire
NZC vs Te Whariki

Page 42 in NZC -    Nathen Wallis
The school curriculum design and review
How we are delivering the curriculum? -Through play

School should be ready for the learners, not the learners

Try something new and persist to do -Margaret carr

Links between ECE and School

Piaget's cognitive developmental stages

Setting up the play environment around the habitat whether the learners can put away stuff easily.









Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Child Development- Marek Tesar TLIF

Marek Tesar, University of Auckland - TLIF

Dominant Framework


What is happening in the learning environment?
Where the learning is happening?
What childhood means to us
What is our expectation?
Each child is unique and they biologically grow differently
Biological age is becoming an issue
We are the resources
Are we listening to the voice of the children for upgrading a playground?
Do we know about Gen Alpha?
WE created playground or city for the adults and not for the children
What next?
I would like to give importance to learners interests first and include them in our planning and give them more power for their own learning. I understand that as a facilitator I have to work on the equity than equality.

Wednesday, 26 February 2020

Halberg Inclusion Session

This programme is targeted for young learners with physical difficulties.

Whakatauki- Our mission
To enhance the lives with physically disabled youth by enabling them to participate in sports and recreation.

The learners need an opportunity to discover what they can do in their life

Goals
Learn of organisation in disability space
How you can champion inclusion
Play disability sports

What next?
I will be using with our new entrants to develop their listening and gross motor skills.

Introduction to Leadership Coaching

Welcome to Introduction to leadership coaching

GROWTH frame work
Goals
Reality
Options
Will
Tactics
Habits

COACHING
Coaching is relational
Ask the right question to make the person learn
Ask what else? not anything else
Small scaling helps us to take it to the next level

Difference between coaching and mentoring
Mentor- using our own experience, More directive
Coaching- Less directive

Coaching focus
Ask, how, tell why

What makes a great coach?
Respecting
listening
asking great questions to solve problem
patience
empathy
Coaching is
A conversation
Asking the right questions
About learning
Providing effective feedback

The three elements of coaching
Coaching skills
Frame work
Coaching way of being

Good coach will
develop trust
listen
clarify
Empathise
being succinate
asking the best question
feedback
noticing
solution focussed
non judgemental

ISMART Goal
Inspiring
specific
measurable
achievable
relevant
time bound

SLOTH goals
somewhat vague
lacks commitment
open ended
timid
hard to achieve

8 Key skills of coaching

Where am I now in leadership?
Unconscious Incompetence- Ignorance Bliss
Conscious Incompetence- Awkwardness, confusion and frustration, fear and anger
Unconscious competence- Intuitive, automatic and bliss
Conscious Competence-Accomplishment, Achievement and excitement
Coaching 'way of being'


IN THE MOMENT FEEDBACK

Red flags
Strong emotions
Patterns

Demonstrating a goal area they are working on

 Thanks for the feedback -Leaky face- Douglas stone and Sheena Heen 
Red flag
Contradicting between two things
Inconstancy
Behaviour

Strong emotions
When people break up- Show empathy
Highlighting when coachee achieve something

Patterns
Recognising patterns- seeing patterns in people's behaviour



The coaching habit-Michael Bungay Stanier



Does the coachee agree with the importance of the issues?
Does the coachee 'own' the feedback?




Concern-based feedback script practice

Final Coaching practice

What Next?
I will be using these strategies in my mentoring and with my team members to support their learning.