This week we completed the second cycle of JK with an Amazing Race! It fitted very nicely with our WALT: testing a hypothesis of what success is. My students had to complete a range of tasks, take videos or pictures of the finished piece and upload them onto a Keynote on the iPad. It was a lot of fun!
This was a perfect lesson for my class! It was obvious from the lesson that I had designed the learning so that the children were able to connect to the characteristics (some easier than others) of being successful. Yuss! Big tick for me. I was looking forward to seeing the lesson in action again so was disappointed when things didn't work out to check out Rm3's lesson. But I was able to have a look around and observe the race in action and check out the reflection part at the end. They did a PMI and I was really impressed with the reflective comments that the Room 3 kids made about the experience. I had all sorts of problems trying to upload the keynotes onto youtube. The videos would only play sound off the first video on the slide. I googled it and apparently this problem happens when there's more than one video on your keynote. So I had to make a video on imovie. Band is 'Bad Rabbits' - totally awesome funk/rock band!
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Here is the action plan, the task and the reflection task for our JK session coming up this Monday.
First of all I want to give props to my buddy class teacher Sonita who sent us these notes of the day. It was a massive day and I really enjoyed it. Sonita, you have given an excellent summary of the day so thank you. (And unfortunately they have not saved so they will be lost forever!).
I think I was asked in all of my teaching interviews about the Treaty of Waitangi and what it means to me as a teacher? Are there other job positions where you have to have some knowledge of the Treaty and apply the underlying principals? Crazy really. How it all unfolded was intriguing. And it makes me want to inquire more into the rich history this country has. Particularly the musket and land wars. Another fascinating aspect that Vicky bought up was the 'urban marae' where new people living in a place are setting up their own marae for their community; in NZ and in Australia. The argument is that that place is not the place of the olden days or the place of the hapu/iwi pre- 1800 so it's a bit controversial. But, if people who choose to live that way want to, should have the right to, don't you think? What's the deal with the Teachers' College marae? My heart was wrenched out to hear that the Treaty was ignored for 100 years. Shit man, 100 years. It's embarrassing. As New Zealander's how unique is our Maori language? I remember singing Tu tira mai nga iwi in a bus in London, and hijacking a busker in Chicago to sing Hei konei ra, and rolling down the street in Guatemala performing the haka. I am very proud of our language and culture; it defines us. So what does it mean for me? Turangawaewae: the place where your whanau stood, the place where you stand, your place to be: it's our story and we are all connected to this.
We got into our second cycle of our Jugyou Kenkyuu professional development last week. Click here to find out more about this project. And guess what? It's my turn for the hot seat. This means that I am the one who teaches our lesson.
It was a great session actually - though I was a little confused with what learning we needed to do. For example, I thought the lesson had to be something that we were already doing. Stephen's has a student teacher on full control, which makes it hard for his class to make much progress towards their inquiry. So he was pretty much at the beginning of his inquiry and I'm at the end(ish): taking action. So check out the keynote below, as it outlines what we have decided to do.
Putting my thinking hat on, I feel a little bit nervous that 5 teachers are going to be coming to critique our lesson. Especially due to me not having a lot of time due to being on assembly last week.
I am happy that the task is hands-on, and that it will really assist with the direction we are going with our inquiry.
Faaar, this was a mean haka! I liked the formation of the roopu. Something to think about for our Pai Tamariki performance coming up. Well done Chiefs!
Reflective question 3:
How do I reflect in my professional work respect for the cultural heritages of both Treaty partners in Aotearoa NZ? As a new Zealander, I feel very proud of our Treaty. As I am getting older and learning new things about our history, I reflect on the way groups of people have been treated. Through the actions of some of our past leaders, Māori culture and customs were almost lost. How sad for a culture to be lost? I was lucky enough to go through most of my schooling where Maori (Te Reo) was ok to teach and learn. I followed this through High school and university. I know it's not all about 'the language' but it's like a bridge into other aspects. Therefore, te reo has been my bridge into other areas like performance, music and tikanga. At RSS, I have increasingly been involved with the decision making of aspect Māori. I am still learning all of the time but the main things I incorporate into my daily practice are: - te reo - waiata - learning things Māori through a Māori lens - cooperative learning |
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