Week 4 - Term 2 - 2020

“E hara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takimano, takitini”

Success is not the work of one, but the work of many.

Week 4 4 Haratua - 8 Haratua Emergency Remote Teaching Continues	Week 5 11 Haratua - 15 Haratua Emergency Remote Teaching Continues.
Assembly/Ako Meet with Ako Class Virtually - Wed 6	Assembly/Ako Meet with Ako Class Virtually (TBC) - Wed 13
Meeting  Departments as needed - Tues 5	Meeting  Teaching and Learning - Tues 12 @ 3.30pm

Information for Staff

1. Possible articles that you may be interested in reading:

a. The first is a new research paper that has been recently published –School-led-learning at home: Voices of parents of Māori and Pasifika students. Dr Melanie Riwai-Couch and a team from Evaluation Associates with Tufulasi Taleni (University of Canterbury) carried out the research.

This paper reports on the results of a survey that sought the views of parents of Māori and Pasifika students on their experiences of the first week of school-led learning at home. 134 parents responded to the survey. These parents represented at least 105 primary and 79 secondary students from throughout New Zealand in English and Māori medium settings.

Their perspectives are shared in the hope that they might help schools provide equitable programmes whilst the restrictions on attending school in-person remain. But, perhaps even more importantly, the parent voices provide insights that could help refocus education in the longer term. The intent is to seize the opportunity afforded by the current disruption, to work more closely with parents and whānau to rethink how public education can best be provided to meet the needs and aspirations of all New Zealanders. 

Within the paper are sets of questions that have been developed for reflection and planning that can be used by teachers, kura/schools, and education decision makers. We believe that these will support enhanced design, delivery, and home-school partnership with Māori and Pasifika parents.  The paper can be accessed at: http://www.evaluate.co.nz/key-readings/school-led-learning-voices-of-parents-of-maori-and-pasifika-students/

b. John Hattie has also put together a discussion paper on 'Visible Effect Sizes when Schools are closed: What Matters and What does Not"

2. What is Education 3.0?
Interesting to watch this now and think about the changes to how teaching is currently occurring and where you might be with regards to Education 2.0 and 3.0.