Toolkit - Digging into Mood

Term Two - Digging into Mood

This term the toolkit I am running follows up on PD I did last year with Dr Aaron Wilson and Selena Meiklejohn-Whiu for Year 7 and 8 Teachers. We looked into how authors create Mood and Atmosphere and then applied this knowledge to writing. 

At this stage, I have 16 people excited about being Moody. I look forward to seeing them all.

LCS - Create can Happen Anywhere

 Learn, Create, Share Staff Meetings were organised into 2 groups (depending on when schools could attend).  By having only two meetings I believed it would provide opportunities for schools to work with others in the cluster building relationships. 

This was the first Staff Meeting I was running with Ako Hiko and I thought it was important to reiterate the meaning of Create and where it fits in the Pedagogy of Learn, Create, Share. When I was first starting on this journey it took me a few times to understand the three parts and schools have a staff turnover.

One highlight I thought was where teachers were able to create and then explore. The create task was so tables had treats easily accessible in front of them.

then we looked at where they can find 'Create' resources through the Manaiakalani Online Toolkits Archive and Google Arts. I learnt about Google Arts at the end of 2022 through Summer Learning Journey and thought it was a great resource that needed to be shared.

Research Reflections - Where to from here?

 

Kia Ora Koutou,

Graphs like these want us to be teaching to the North East. So our data is in the top right quadrant.

So when I found out that was a focus for one of my schools Reading the Book 'Teaching to the North East', I wanted to know more. 

Check out My Posts to see how I implement these ideas as a Mentor and Teacher helping to build the digital capacity in classrooms.