Wow, today was our last day together on RPI, we finished with a bang!
What an amazing day of learning.
We started with hearing that Share aspect of our pedagogy is just as important as learn and create. As you see below, the 3 parts are just as important to one another. Our learners having an authentic audiecnce gives them more drive to complete their tasks to a high standard and post it on their blogs.
As you can see below, we had 342,376 blog posts from our learners this year in the Manaiakalani, the even more impressive part of this is that there us 125,397 comments, which shows that our learners are getting an authentic audience, our learners blog posts are being seen and commented on. This gives them more drive to make their work even better!
Another thing we heard today was about using our learners blogs as a source of formal assessment. All of us teachers right now around Aotearoa are in the same boat when it comes to writing reports, what better resource do we have to make OTJ's than our learners blogs! Use them!
This image below is a massive problem teachers all around the world have. It can be so difficult getting our children to complete their work and then posting it on their blog. In our team at school we have 'FIOP' (Finish It Off Properly) time, where our students get some quiet time in the classroom to complete their learning tasks from the week and then post them on their blog. I normally cast my 'Turn it in' page on the TV so students can see what they need to complete.
Today we learned about another pillar; Sharing. As you can see, sharing is such an important aspect of our learners journey through education, if there isn't an authentic audience for our children, they might have no drive to complete their work.
We then learned about feedback. The 3 different types of feedback can be broken up into:
- Reminder
- Scaffold
- Example
When giving feedback you should base it on one of these prompts depending on the needs of your learner.
Here I have done an example of Reminder Descriptive Feedback.
Here I have done an example of Scaffolding Descriptive Feedback.
We then talked about how we can share with our whanau. We were put into groups, I worked with Hinemoana and we thought to do something about the Hikoi that's happening at the moment, to do some learning about it in the classroom, write a script with some questions on it and go home and ask your whanau questions and if they are unsure of answers, our learners would be able to teach them.
Massive thank you to Pt England School for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the RPI group this year. I have learned so much and gained so much confidence in my reading teaching. I'm already excited for next year and getting my reading programme up and running again! Thank you so much to the Manaiakalani team for always being so positive and uplifting and giving us so many different ideas throughout this program.
Keep watching this space
RPI, we out, for now!
