Sites: The feedback form for sites provides an excellent template for us all. We will look at using that regularly to evaluate our own sites. There is a place for it when providing feedback for teacher planning as it all should link anyway. However given that teachers are at different stages of implementing one to one digital learning, i.e a new teacher to the school, a teacher new to one to one digital as opposed to a teacher in the 3rd or 5th year of digital teaching, we will need to use a range of approaches in preparation for the form becoming common practice.
- Teaching and Learning: monitoring class sites for effective teaching and learning and ensuring a "lolly scramble" of good ideas is avoided is a great kaupapa for our own evaluation and regular checking on ourselves.
Own School site and Class sites
I feel I am better informed to achieve a higher level of evaluation having had time to really look at our own school and class sites as well as the range of ones shared in our session today.
Connectivity: is a powerful kaupapa. I agree that it is a way of life. It is universal and at the heart of whether learning is successful or not. As educators it is the challenge we have to ensure the connections we nurture are empowering for the students we teach. We fail them and ourselves if we can't do this. I felt the power of it today in Dorothy's presentation.
Limit the Links: I recall the feeling of relief and power of this document over the Lockdown period of Covid-19. It enabled us all to be very grateful for how well placed we were to seamless "learning at home" for our children. We were in a position where all Year 3 to Year 8 students had a device at home. The four key areas were;
Google Sites making teaching visible
The blessings of being in a Manaiakalani Outreach Cluster!!
Side Bar for Blogs:
I will make sure to follow the tips for the side bar for my blog and;
Hapara:
I will look at the sharing tab on Hapara to look for evidence of work that students have not filed.
Kia ora koutou ano facilitators and colleagues for another great day of learning. Arohanui Raina
Kia ora Raina,
ReplyDeleteGreat to see the ways you can use the sites evaluation in your own school. You have some useful reflections about the range of stages that teachers are at. Having the sites visible and accessible from the school site is a great first step. Giving teachers time to explore sites at a similar year level is a gift. I have seen good teachers then pick up the skills they need to do what they want to for their learners.
Arohanui,
Maria