Day 5 Reflections

 Day 5 Reflections

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy?

This week we focussed on the importance of making teaching and learning visible, accessible and available to both the learners, teachers and the wider community (whanau). This visibility contributes to a strong partnership with whanau. Having the teaching visible to our colleagues is a great way to learn from each other and share our ideas. Visible learning will lead to effective teaching and accelerated learning. 

Google sites has been considered as the best tool for visible teaching and learning. The most effective teachers use Learn - Create - Share pedagogy and their use of class sites to make teaching and learning visible further supported students agency. The Manaiakalani design which includes the partnership has been the major contributor of the acceleration. Blogger is also another great site to make individual teaching and learning visible. Manaiakalani programme ensures that success is available to everyone.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional?

Multi modal was something really awesome and inspiring as I learnt the importance of hooking the learners into learning. Multi text database is a very useful tool for the Reading Programme. Collaborative sites plan is a great idea and perhaps it could be used for our senior team to collect resources.

What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

I might relook at my class site and add some more complementary texts related to their main text. Encourage the students to use the class site frequently and link the texts to their personal life.

What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow in my personal life?

I'll try to create multimodal sites for reading so it could help me later. Labelling the blogs is also very helpful.