PB4L - Following Up

 Giving Feedback, Feedforward and FeedUp

Circle Time - Setting aside a time daily, weekly to check in with students

SHARE

• Something positive/fun from your weekend, the learning today
• Something you found challenging

Working up to -

• Safe place where students can share problems, issues they would like help with.

To help develop PB4L we need to give students feed to improve learning and behaviour. We can feed them with food about how they did with their behaviour, what hey can do better and how we can help them.

When modelling for students ensure there is an example for students to refer back too. (Although this is something I usually do, we are in the process of moving and the class tv had been moved, so didn't have this option. But I didn't even use paper duh.

Hapara Champ - Workspace

This is a new feature in Hapara for me. It was an interesting learning curve. But once I got the basics it seemed easy. 

It is set up like a task board and you can create 4 heading 

e.g. 1. Learning Intentions

2. Readings

3. Tasks, To Do

4. Expectations Rubric

The menu of the left indicate where the workspace comes from, just like other google apps. Owned by me, shared with me, My labels and the last one is for your professional learning. The last one is where you go to do the Hapara Course.

The more I use it the easier it seems to get.

Running a Training Course

 When sharing with staff, or other teachers there are many ways to support them. Here are a few.

PLD can be done in so many ways we often forget about the inconsequential meetings and quick tips we pass on. They all count. This year we had an acting principal for a term before our new principal started and both had questions that needed answering even though they are on very different ends of the digital fluency scale. 

There is no one size fits all, and now I go in prepared to help the person take notes checking over them ( as the order could be very different and then they give up, don't ask for help as they believe you didn't tell them. if they don't need the notes version all good.

Even seasoned professionals need reminders now and again. I often hear what do you mean I can unsend...

Talk Moves -

After using rich maths activities and starting the talk, now we need to learn to dig deeper and get students to say what they see. As 

Having looked at a couple of my Class OnAir Videos, I realise that the more talk the students do the more they learn. So to me this is very important part of the lesson.

This is an important idea to grasp, as we want students to learn and remember new concepts so we need to give them opportunities to discuss, experience and teach others.

To Help Students with discussions here are some easy phrases to encourage more talk include:

• "What else?"
• "Tell me more..."
• "And.."

I look forward to working out more phrases to encourage discussion and to encourage to student to think deeper.

Although this was brought to my attention again through Math PD it is true in all areas of learning.

Blogging for Students

 Malo le lei

This week my focus for Class on Air was getting students to share their learning on their new blog in Edublog. Although this was done earlier in the term we revisited it due to students returning after covid isolation periods. Click on the images to learn more.

We talked about the purpose of sharing our work, who wants to see it and why.