Collaboration via Social Media

One of the really important things I have found in teaching is to collaborate.  I am a member of a facebook page NZ Teachers (Primary)  This is a forum where teachers from all over NZ post ideas, tips, resources and seek ideas and help.
Whilst looking through the site yesterday a colleague was asking for help sharing MP3 files from places like journal surf. I offered some advice as I have recently taught myself how to do this in our new platform after being shown how in our old one.  This generated a string of people following the post and asking for ideas so I offered to screencastify myself demonstrating how to make shareable links so the are accessible to students.  Hopefully this little bit helps them.

Feedback from Jeff - re Rippa

Reflective thoughts - Read Theory

READ THEORY
This is a new Digital Initiative that I have been trialing in my class over the past 2 weeks.  Initially I implemented it with my capable readers and then introduced to the whole class.  They LOVE it!  It is very engaging as they get to earn points and compete against each other while improving their reading comprehension strategies.  Each child is able to monitor their progress independently and using this information can then develop their own personal reading comprehension goals.  As a classroom teacher this programme also gives me a comprehensive amount of information around each students understanding, especially in the areas of inferencing, text knowledge and language understanding.  I can see very quickly where gaps are to use as focus teaching points and look at individual tests and answers to see if there are common trends (i.e. understanding of questions)

PLG 3 May 2017

Discussion:  Michelle Coxhead - Te Reo Maori classroom
What does it look like?
PARTNERSHIP
PROTECTION the knowledge interests and values and the Taonga
PARTICIPATON Using extra Te Reo within writing.

Digital Assignment 1 Mindlab - INQUIRY FOCUS 2017

Feedback from Terrye

PLG Reading Wk 1 Term 1 2017

Sarah Community and Public Health Facilitating.
Pause, breath, smile programme running in Room 8 this term
Share ideas of what we can do within our own classrooms
Mindful eating, midnful movement, mindful breathing
Talk about the body and the brain and how it all works together.  Based on science
Explain how all the glitter is like our brain when it is busy.  Take the time to let things settle and calm down. Some thought and feelings are bigger than others.
Being mindful with out chocolate, what does it look like, sound like when we are eating it, what does it sound like.  Mindfulness is a really good way of learning to pay attention.  Good idea to use Jaffa, look at the changes in colours.  Have a moment on how we appreciate our food.

Staff Meetings 2017

Professional Development 2017