https://youtu.be/m5e3cDP85OU This video is about my journey of developing the VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning Site. The VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning Site enables teachers to understand the purpose of how visible teaching and learning can be used effectively to accelerate learning. VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning is a series of tools that...
Workspace Task - Blogging I have been trialling structuring blogging into Workspace Tasks, as shown in the image below. The blogging task is added to the Workspace as an Activity in the Evidence column. Workspace Task - Evidence Card In the example provided, students would start the Level 1 - Game Blog Post...
My Inquiry Focus for CoL 2018, has been "Integrating VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning with cultural visibility and responsive practices to raise Māori student achievement in NCEA years 11-13" in alignment with Achievement Challenge 1. The focus group for my inquiry this year was students who I taught DigiTech NCEA Level 2. In order to...
The following is the presentation that I recently delivered at the 2018 Manaiakalani Outreach Wananga. The VTaL Visible...
Ok so maybe the title isn't exactly accurate in that the new stuff in Workspaces, isn't actually new stuff ... but it's new stuff to me. I'm talking about the ability to organise information in sections within Workspaces. I've known that the section partition was an upgrade from a few months back, I...
Today, myself and the other Tamaki College CoL Teachers presented alongside Lenva to the staff about bringing together Learn Create and Share. The example that I presented about focussed on a NCEA Level 3 unit of work relating to the Conceptual Design standard. The Learn aspect included the learning activities that students undertake...
Today I had the opportunity, alongside my fellow MIT Colleagues, to share what I have been inquiring into with regards to my MIT project. The audience was primarily made up of Senior and Middle Leaders from various Manaiakalani and Outreach schools, as well as other Manaiakalani partners. The reason that it was so...
VTaL Visible Teaching and Learning Site The following image below links to a Prototype of the revised VTaL...
Workspace PD Overview I recently ran a Workspaces PD session for some of the staff involved in the Integrated Unit 'Parakuihi Hauora'. The purpose of the workshop was not to show staff how to use Workspaces. The purpose of the workshop was to show staff how to use Workspaces to integrate a unit...
One of the recent learning activities that some of my students had to do was explain whether the...
I think that technology has the potential to make society extremely antisocial ... although it doesn't need to. ...
After delivering my workshop at Sydney GAFE recently, and attending the workshop of a fellow colleague Gerhard Vermeulen, directly after my own, I was lucky enough to gain feedback and insight within both workshops into the use of conditional formatting to apply the traffic light colour codes more easily within the VTaL tracking...
The following are a series of interactions between myself and my fellow MIT colleagues, who I'm grateful to...
The following is a brief description of the journey that one of my fellow MIT colleagues, Heather Matthews...
It's the beginning of Term 3, so where to from here? ... In our COL meeting, I had...
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Inquiry Refocus - The Literacy Lens
What’s the Big Idea for 2018 “Language in Abundance”, Language Acquisition, development, Transfer and sustaining across school levels and curriculum domains. Language in abundance environments ‘drip’ with language availability and attention, where noticing and relevant use of words allow for deeper, wider, more specific and precise, context appropriate language expression…leading to knowing at...
The following are a few workshop highlights from the Sydney EdTech Conference that I recently attended. Scratching the surface of capabilities One of the workshops that I attended was run by Conny Mattimore, Deputy Principal of Rooty Hill School where the EdTech Conference was being held. The workshop was about 'Scratching the surface...
