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...
