Week 5 - Term 2 - 2020

He iti hau marangai, e tū te pāhokahoka

After the storm, the rainbow appears

Week 5 11 Haratua - 15 Haratua Emergency Remote Teaching Continues	Week 6 18 Haratua - 22 Haratua Emergency Remote Teaching or onsite teaching resumes - watch this space!
Assembly/Ako Meet with Ako Class Virtually (TBC) - Wed 13	Assembly/Ako Meet with Ako Class - Wed 20
Meeting  Teaching and Learning - Tues 12 @ 3.30pm Department - Fri 15 @11am (TBC)	Meeting  No meeting

Information for Staff

1. This week we had a meeting with the whole prefect team and they were asked to share what aspects they were finding that they enjoyed out of the current situation, where they were learning from home. Two key themes emerged - family, and how they were enjoying spending more time together and the ability to structure their own day around when they work, when the exercise and eat.
So as we near the possibility of returning on site, as Teachers we also need to reflect on what are our positive takeaways re our own learning and what aspects we would like to keep as we move forward.
My challenge to you all is to have a brainstorm of where your own thinking has been at and reflect on the following questions as we begin to start thinking about returning to teaching and learning onsite.
-What did we do?-What worked? Why did it work?
-What didn't work? Why didn't it work?
- What are the student perspectives of what learning has been like in your classroom?
and share those with your department/colleagues - here is my own thinking.....



2. Research Ed Webinar - Paul Kirschner

Sticking with the reflective theme as we continue with our online learning, Paul Kirschner goes through 10 key points that teachers need to consider when delivering their emergency remote teaching. He likens what we are doing to an emergency department in a hospital, where as teachers we are doing our best to save learning.



The 10 key areas we need to reflect on, and consider including in our practice are:
a. Maintain subject matter that students have already learned, so they do not forget what was done in class when they were back at school.
b. Spread the learning practice - don't give all the work at once.
c. Communicate goals and success criteria
d. Frame new materials in a bigger picture
e. Use relevant prior knowledge
f. Give examples before exercises
g. Offer support and guidance
h. Support/stimulate active processing of material
i. Check for mastery of the concepts covered
j. Provide adequate feedback

He refers to this diagram, which could be a good starting point for some of your lessons.

You may be interested in looking at at the following document Policy and Procedure considerations for remote teaching and learning complied by GCSN member Gabrielle Wall. Many of the suggestions we have already put in place, but it does include some good advice.

3. You will have no doubt received the email from the Teaching Council re the new registration process and policy - if you didn't you can check it our HERE

4. As we are working predominantly in the digital space, you may be interested to read a couple of articles on Netsafe.
a. The best online safety tips for lockdown
b. Digital Self-harm Report which looks at digital self-harm among teenagers. It explains how deep the issues are, the motivations and next steps.To read the full report go to https://www.netsafe.org.nz/digital-self-harm-19/