Showing posts with label Cultural Responsiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cultural Responsiveness. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Motu Kairangi Kāhui Ako Bicultural Hui - Hanna O'Regan - Week 2, Term 2, 2022

For the Bicultural Hui, we started with Hana O’Regan’s Presentation and Workshop. We completed ECGs.

Presentations watch are not to be shared outside of school. 

Here is a similar presentation by Hana O'Regan at ULearn 2018:    

Tuesday, 12 November 2019

Sparking Passions for PLD Leadership: Thinking ahead to 2020

PLD 2020

PLD 2020 will look different. We want to tie all threads together by Learner Agency. This will begin with Teacher Agency. We are inviting all staff to examine purpose, inspiration and the things you are passionate about teaching and learning.

All staff will have leadership opportunities, delivering professional learning around an area of passion. Underneath the work will be a robust research project/ TAI which is likely to last for most of the year and will inform all staff around best practice or improvement in a chosen area. We are envisioning doing this in pairs/ teams.

PLD sessions will be delivered in chunks. 4- 8 sessions in succession. We are aiming to do less in more depth. Areas to consider are Reading, Writing and Maths (a given) and Positive Education, Learner Agency and Cultural Responsiveness. This is to get us thinking! Voice, choice, PURPOSE, engagement…

Today we began to generate ideas for next year. We started the meeting with a walk to appreciate our place.

The best ideas come when we aren't trying to think of them... They often come when:

-Walking
-Running
-Traveling (airplanes, airports, trains, buses)
-Falling Asleep or Waking Up
-In Conversation with Friends
-Listening to Audiobooks or Podcasts
-Showering



Ximena also led a starter about how teaching activates each area of our Wellbeing...


Here are some of our initial thoughts about leading and learning linked to our 2020 business plan and strategic goals:

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Maths PLD: Formative Assessment continued...

Carl: Starter (Philosophy for Children Discussion about Artificial Intelligence)

Therese and James: Shared Reading about Cultural Responsiveness/ Maths



We reflected on our Seesaw Goals and discussed what we have achieved. Where to next? with a Maths focus.

Exit/ Entry tickets. We spend some time in teams making, discussing, etc. 

How can we use these as formative assessment? Seesaw Maths Folder

We also looked at Assessment Strategies 10 ideas (beyond exit tickets)


A bit of thinking for homework…
We are thinking about the Parents meeting in week 9.
What are your ideas? What do parents need to know? What do we want them to take away? What worked well at the last meeting? How can we bring your culture/ home culture/ lives into Maths?

Sunday, 15 October 2017

Inclusion Meeting: Preparing for Inclusive Education Internal Evaluation 16th October 2017

We are preparing for our Inclusive Education Self Review.

What is Inclusive Education?
What different groups do we have in the school?
What perspectives do we need to consider?

We will look at what the survey showed.
Look at school vision and Year 6 leaver's profile.

What are we currently doing that contributes to Inclusive Education?

What UDL strategies and tools are you using in your classroom? Why?

Refresh from ULearn...

In her ULearn17 keynote, Ann Milne shared her story of the Warrior Scholars from Kia Aroha college. The video below demonstrates a wonderful model of cultural responsiveness in action:

 
Warrior Scholars - Decolonising education from Teach For All on Vimeo.


These slides have been adapted from the ULearn presentation by Margaret Lelieveld and Sunny West. The slides are about ASD in the ILE:

 

This is a link to a transition checklist for ASD students (but would be useful for other students too)

The senior team have been working with Evan Barker, who has been completing his Masters Thesis, "The implementation of (UDL) guidelines … and its influence on students’ learning." This has further helped us to reflect on our journey, our achievements and inform our next steps. These are the slides about his research from his ULearn presentation: