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History Making History - Ihumātao

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Our session began with Alex and I giving Jannie an overview of what our intention is with the collaboration between Social Studies and DigiTech with the Human Rights Project, and our ideas around using the collaboration as a platform to accelerate achievement around writing for the students. Originally I'd thought of using AsTTLe...

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DigiTech and Social Studies Human Rights Project - Planning Update

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Leading on from our initial discussions, Alex and I met this morning to talk in more detail about broader context issues relating to Human Rights, and what the collaborative process could and would look like moving forward. Due to the proximity of the Land Occupation at Ihumātao, Alex and I agreed that it...

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Inquiry Focus - Human Rights Collaborative Project

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After the initial meeting with Alex to discuss the collaboration of teaching 10TTu for the Human Rights unit...

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Planning for the Human Rights Collaborative Project

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One of our Social Studies teachers, Alex Brown, and myself, had previously collaborated together on the EMR Collaborative...

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Progress in relation to the focus of your inquiry

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Based on the EMR Collaborative Project - Data Collection and Student Achievement, with two different Year 10 classes,...

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Matariki 2019

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How to celebrate Matariki at home Me pēhea te whakanui i a Matariki i te kāinga The presentation in this blog post includes examples of some of the ways in which my whānau celebrates Matariki at home. This includes different ways of learning and talking about whakapapa, acknowledging tīpuna and sharing ideas about...

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Press Release - Tāmaki College 2019 EMR Programme

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The following is the Press Release of the EMR Project that Tamaki College Year 10 students participated in...

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How to Blog What to Blog - Truffle Making

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The following are a series of photographs that shows the process that myself and my friend Jo Horgan, went through to make Truffles today in one of our EdTech Workshops today delivered by Carol Heka. The skills that I learnt in this lesson includes: the steps to create the truffles the importance of...

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EMR Collaborative Project - Meeting and Planning ... Notes, Printouts and Workspace

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Notes and Printouts At the beginning of 10PSd's double Science lesson yesterday, Graham brought his class over to T2 to work on their games for the EMR Project.  During this time, Graham, Alex and myself meet together to talk about how we could streamline the tasks for the EMR project to enable the...

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EMR Collaborative Project - Planning to Plan

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After teaching 10PSd last Tuesday, and needing to focus the students around meeting the criteria for the EMR Poor Knights Competition Criteria, I realised that we (we being the staff teaching 10PSd involved in the EMR project - Alex Brown [SoS], Graham Stoddard [Science] and myself [DigiTech]) possibly needed to come together to...

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