Gaylene Young Professional Blog

This year I have decided to focus on how to design and implement an effective literacy programme in Te Reo Maori. Rationale: My colleagues and I are struggling to deliver an effective Level 2 Te Reo programme. I feel that this year we’re going in blind without having a strong content base of knowledge, strategies, and expectations in Panui, Tuhituhi, Korero. Level 2 is a huge step up from Level 3. I'm also finding examples online of what other Kura use and do, which is extremely difficult. This is why I have decided to focus on designing and implementing an effective literacy programme of Te Reo Maori at Level 2. The programme will then be a crucial resource for all teachers of Level 2 going forward. Strategies: Over the course of this year I will implement several strategies and capture their effectiveness within my classroom. I will share my successes, struggles and general reflections. These include (but are not limited to...) Becoming familiar with the Curriculum documents...

What did I learn that increased my understanding of Manaiakalani kaupapa and pedagogy? Today we delved deeper into the meaning of 'share' as related to the Manaiakalani kaupapa. What resonated was the accelerated learning achievements in reading and writing from students who are actively blogging and sharing their learning. Students are motivated and inspired to share with an authentic audience - people (within the classroom, school, locally, nationally, even globally) who choose to click on their blog; people who choose to listen to what they have to say. NOTE TO SELF: Get Blogging! What did I learn that could improve my confidence, capability or workflow as a professional? It's funny, I have these expectations of my students to be able to use screencastify to demonstrate their learning or capability in a certain area or to create a rewindable resource for themselves and others. What I didn't think about and was reminded of today is that it is really...