Sally Avern's Professional Journey

Week 25 During Week 1, I shared the action plan with leaders at my school and my students. Week 2 I collected baseline data from my class in terms of giving and receiving feedback, as well as qualitative information on their writing skills. Since Week 1 the classroom culture has been built around supporting learning, as well as the vocab that is necessary for feedback facilitation (what is SC etc).  Week 3 saw the collaborative teacher construction of the format for feedback and the introduction of this format to two groups of students separately. I have not shared my intentions yet with whanau as planned, it is within my job description already that I track data and record lessons for my practice. The only reason I saw to share with these people to have more critical eyes on my teaching and learning.  I do believe in building a supportive learning environment and including parents. Consequently, as Ann Milne suggests, to gain the trust and respect of my...

Retrieved from: http://www.katoa.net.nz/kaupapa-maori What relevance does the topic of interest have to your Māori students? Have you taken into account the ways your students think, understand, interact and interpret the topic of interest? How would you know? The intervention principles in the context of my research.  Tino Rangatiratanga I believe students need to have meaningful control over what they are doing.  Cultural well-being amongst my students will come in the form of choice of collaboration. Traditional ideals of learning and achievement of Kaupapa Maori are that the achievements of the group are shared by all. If they choose to collaborate in their work, they will all benefit. It cannot be meaningful control though if I just throw them all in the deep end to begin with. I must be able to slowly help them be comfortable with the idea of having everone in the class critique theri work. This will be a challenge. Taonga tuku iho  My stu...

Growth Mindset for Kids Bibliography: ClassDojo Big Ideas . (2018).  Ideas.classdojo.com . Retrieved 18 August 2018, from https://ideas.classdojo.com/b/growth-mindset