tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80802865218041633292024-02-18T22:14:25.181-08:00 Lets talk about teaching and learning.Aotearoa NZ has a settler colonial education system. Educational policies and practices talk about equity, inclusion and student voice. I believe our most critical work is to design equitable teaching and learning experiences that are anchored in Tino rangatiratanga. We must talk more about who we are and who we are becoming.
I often think about these ideas when working in the garden and cooking.
Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-64025796501922459922021-01-21T13:03:00.019-08:002021-01-24T11:28:57.324-08:00A Gingerbread Loaf & 'Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps'<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-21f8ec21-7fff-021f-60e7-21b6f947e320"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today I am convinced that Summer has bypassed Wellington.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wellingtonians are rugged up in black puffers, woolen jumpers and on their feet, (because Wellingtoniains are optimists), they are wearing a pair of sandals or slip ons with no socks.</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I feel a need to bake a ginger loaf. The smell in the house will be amazing and thinking and writing whilst baking is in the oven feels like a happy place to be today.</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The recipe I am going to use is from a book called Cooking for Optimists.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know this recipe as Esther’s Gingerbread. (Note the books talk about this particular recipe is not owned by a particular person; it just keeps getting passed on.)</span></p><br /><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col></col><col></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 374px; overflow: hidden; width: 248px;"><img height="374" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/qIL64J37QpGxqxagoOSuA-tsMHeWa6tdd3dWaGj-1DH7II9za2ADENwbsdNF43IWQmVQU6G2C8i_s3w7YqwrXJCdLh-xBPxdzjHXf2TzHDokv11laEyQmyR60SFEd-M-ysTHf7Gt" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="248" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.wheelers.co.nz/books/9780473497897-cooking-for-optimists/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.wheelers.co.nz/books/9780473497897-cooking-for-optimists/</span></a></p></td><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 397px; overflow: hidden; width: 298px;"><img height="397" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-UyxkUCGvEZxPwAKwKHDQU2xcSf5LdrcNCamPt7gM-ADiAlaUm6biyFNwdfVXtUaaVAcplzQHdhk1C9OP9plOND1QW6B3KLI-7Mb1JwkjlAUeGjy0dr-XlhTE2qjuF-q0TZhDieH" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="298" /></span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 397px; overflow: hidden; width: 298px;"><img height="397" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Wq16icCQzQiOutGGEJOv3VqiRsOJ5TZxEHw-4NTBjrFsUCjizD4hNb4KlnZk3KtB0sO4gn0rJkRrBN_j7v5VJAuPPVgxuP5P7OD0it4OiqtPH0Bqg6o9cfS-xNpSxN8yY3I0NaoI" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="298" /></span></span></p></td><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 393px; overflow: hidden; width: 295px;"><img height="393" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/3c001f1oGHBUAo5jcZn3LmhvUGKcdtSuj5dD6T20VHpk5BV0Rx6bzGzAujFkGjFkWUTcgfybhsyEnx_SixTKG_sJ5hpWEVxIVxTgb7gUpSltZT3b3vkSIjFWTdWT9zJ4ibJXBZiL" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="295" /></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whilst measuring and finding ingredients. I am thinking about the book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Leadership-Mindtraps-Thrive-Complexity/dp/1503609014" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berger, J. G. (2019). </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlocking leadership mindtraps: How to thrive in complexity</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Stanford University Press.</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berger suggests there are five ways of being that stop ourselves from seeing possibilities. She calls them ‘Mindtraps’. </span><span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since this book was published I think and reflect on them often. Both in my personal and </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">professional</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> life. They have supported me to notice more possibilities in my RTLB practice. </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></p><br /><br /><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col></col><col></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 250px; overflow: hidden; width: 167px;"><img height="250" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/aZ8eObncaFWpLpHS2WOfIJw0hq_NnbZttI8xAbB4neBWAmmhTMk_pVKg7dTfwizkD3PxA3A8zTOEv0oH3FbDbkFMUK6hnoBdiLm5jMjWCUddxqbDoZ2M72GcEQtsmkxXKzqePg60" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="167" /></span></span></p></td><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trapped by Simple Stories</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Your Desire for a Simple Story Blinds You to a Real One.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trapped by Rightness:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Just because it Feels Right Doesn’t Mean it Is Right.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trapped by Agreement</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Longing for Alignment Robs You of Good Ideas.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trapped by Control:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Trying to Take Charge Strips You of Influence.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Trapped by Ego</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Shackled to Who You Are Now, You Can’t Reach for Who You’ll Be Next.</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mind Traps Webinar: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5Apb9V83o" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd5Apb9V83o</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mind Traps Pod Cast </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://player.fm/series/the-amiel-show/episode-93-unlocking-leadership-mindtraps-with-jennifer-garvey-berger" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://player.fm/series/the-amiel-show/episode-93-unlocking-leadership-mindtraps-with-jennifer-garvey-berger</span></a></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One mind trap that often traps me is that idea of being right.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a teacher / educator being ‘right’ real feels great. Actually, I think as educators we are paid to ‘be right’. Berger talks about how this feeling of being right, is like a dopamine drop. (actually I don’t think she used the word dopamine</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We feel so good about knowing we are right. Yet, she suggests we can not trust that feeling. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The questions I really enjoy asking are, which are encouraged by Berger are: How many ways might I be right? How many ways might I be wrong? I really recommned trying this. Asking these questions does a thing where, what ever context we are often subject to, eg. developing a localised curriculum during a staff development day or even just sorting the playground duty roster. The two questions support us to position the context as an object, to step to the side and notice our capacity to think, act and do things differently. If you do try asking these questions I recommend doing this with a colleague.</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As I write this, the smell of gingerbread is wafting through the house. It’s time to get it out of the oven. (Judging by the cracks on the top, I might have been a bit distracted whilst cooking.)</span></p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; font-family: helvetica; height: 233px; overflow: hidden; width: 175px;"><img height="233" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/ugk3hxk5dqtLrEzM25CE_9fets6OQfZCiyDpt2EzPi0TIbNhZkLQRcxK4eGtXT5M3pe_iSOPVUywV4qT08MFVmbmtVlFV4yen1cTiUyImpgECUaOcrVDza9a7NGrJiVxRUbBJLyl" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="175" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: I did not use a loaf tin. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Instead a small roasting tin. Like reading and writing, I prefer chunks not slices. </span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-76653707177201511052021-01-18T14:30:00.002-08:002021-01-18T14:34:31.888-08:00Roasting cauliflower and thinking about the importance of leaning into conflict <p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most weeks I like to try cooking something new. Today it is roast cauliflower. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-638fcf8f-7fff-f9eb-a516-9a65c9fe150a"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have seen many recipes for roasting cauliflower, all of them leaning into getting a bit flash for me. This one, however, I can easily hack and I suspect results will be a pretty dam delicious plate of cauliflower.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The recipe I am hacking is called Burnt Lemon Cauliflower</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(I call it hacking because if I don't have some of the ingredients which is usually the case, I miss it out or add another, eg. who has fermented lemons on hand?)</span></p><br /><br /><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: 0pt;"><table style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; table-layout: fixed; width: 468pt;"><colgroup><col></col><col></col></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 303px; overflow: hidden; width: 227px;"><img height="303" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/lk1b6f5Do2EuwworacVAwc8-nCaaSfhBB48HOonkRh9ObiCup1n9cAjhTvXXanhSnWk3Ak4zcpb7ZLz7uve280mASic__GlE3qL4pxUPIq99eiB5LDemX4f2dQIROkWtLgYnyU1m" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="227" /></span></span></p></td><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 310px; overflow: hidden; width: 233px;"><img height="310" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WclN6a7iA9PGZ9TtsLTcrC9-owKtt2qKZB3_WsSGW1SFJMxbuXRouSs7thV5KO67HQ3P2iMChW-SNIiNGXea0H0d8W0FFtH17ODsQM-GjWGXudv8xqce4azborACnd6e-1UeU9Ki" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="233" /></span></span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 285px; overflow: hidden; width: 215px;"><img height="285" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/qhxYN9uEU6noE13q6cXdoIaxSclNQ7vDAo-dWXxchiGEJyWvSjzqB9AvRuRLJ6XMuq5eF-vGsCs33-Diqm3Q6qn-5vb8jV_l8P3n-2H4LVWikJ9fgNq0s6PwV2Zug3jC3zJGXYkp" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="215" /></span></span></p></td><td style="border: 1pt solid rgb(0, 0, 0); overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 5pt; vertical-align: top;"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Click on the link below to see the recipe in detail. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note, the picture is different, mine looked more like the image above. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love scattering fresh herbs about the place. Also, note: there is also no way I have black sesame seeds, I just threw in Nigella seeds. (buy from your supermarket)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Also, I left out the garlic.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.vervemagazine.co.nz/sunday-suppers/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.vervemagazine.co.nz/sunday-suppers/</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whilst sitting in our kitchen thinking about how I’m going to rearrange this recipe into something manageable, I’m also thinking about: </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And an article I read a few years ago </span><a href="https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ972311" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evans, R. (2012). Getting to No: Building True Collegiality in Schools. Independent School, 71(2), n2.</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> there is something niggling in the back of my mind about both.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evans, R. (2012) </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> highlights the importance of teachers moving away from Congeniality, relationships that are based on getting on well, being warm and friendly and move towards Collegiality, relationships where its okay in fact encouraged to disagree it’s not because we ‘don’t like you’, we embrace the difference in ideas and approach, we lean into for the sake of improvement. I blogged about this some time ago.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://exploriosity.blogspot.com/2016/09/getting-to-no.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://exploriosity.blogspot.com/2016/09/getting-to-no.html</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This article connects to </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> because if the purpose of ‘education’ is the development of intellectual capacity (Dewey 1938 & Whitehead 1939) then as classroom teachers and educators in the broadest sense, we need to be doing everything possible to open up spaces for the improvement of ideas and an intentional capacity to listen to learn. I have known many colleagues who will do whatever they can to avoid conflict. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In order to learn and to grow, I believe we must learn to sit in those uncomfortable spaces of conflict, (different values, differing knowledges, different attitudes and values) be courageous and lean into the discomfort, stay uncomfortable for a little bit longer than usual and learn. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, I really am thinking about this whilst hustling a cauliflower!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The cauliflower was ridiculously delicious. A perfect lunch for the next day. I will be inclined to top left over roast cauliflower with some roasted pumpkin seeds and maybe some precooked quinoa or rice.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy cooking - Happy reading - Happy thinking!</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education, / New York: Macmillan </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evans, R. (2012). Getting to No: Building True Collegiality in Schools. Independent School, 71(2), n2.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mordachai, K. (2017) Simple Fare, A Guide to everyday cooking and eating, / Abrams, New York</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitehead, A. N. (1929). The aims of education & other essays. New York:Macmillan.</span></p></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-45060184235767979152021-01-12T15:02:00.003-08:002021-01-13T14:49:29.862-08:00Cooking mini quiche whilst summer reading<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a recipe for educators who are on summer break and are reading hard out in between organising their family and getting head ready for returning to school.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have seen variations of this recipe in so many recipe books. Most recently, I saw a version of this recipe in Coffee Pen’s recipe book. I am inspired by coffee Pen cafe it has an unassuming vitality and a warm community. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coffee_pen_/?hl=en">https://www.instagram.com/coffee_pen_/?hl=en</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Little pies with your summer reading</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(makes 8)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZA30jTNZfQo32mW1W9CELTZqwGO9kIPz0p69hGwOs1J8hqMgVsVyREDhtVjuAAk9XLY_Kl3_GVvp41KVlRXC05wjOd18AHPM_9LhlCyUFn5CVvmhGMLUpE8P35O9oiqCw0bDSNQVKJEo/s573/quiche.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="430" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZA30jTNZfQo32mW1W9CELTZqwGO9kIPz0p69hGwOs1J8hqMgVsVyREDhtVjuAAk9XLY_Kl3_GVvp41KVlRXC05wjOd18AHPM_9LhlCyUFn5CVvmhGMLUpE8P35O9oiqCw0bDSNQVKJEo/s320/quiche.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Ingredients</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pastry (I use a delicious pre made Vegan pastry called flaky puff by New Way)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feta (cubed)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spinach (small leaves)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bacon (totally optional)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The mixture</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 eggs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¼ cup of milk</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">¼ cup of cream</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whisk these up with a fork. Adding cracked pepper and salt</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Method</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 1. Oil muffin tins</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Take two pastry sheets out and cut one square sheet into four smaller squares.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Gently push and pleat eight pastry squares into the muffin tins</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Bake pastry for 6 mins then take out of the oven. (I was somewhat dubious about this action - however, a little bit of pastry baking will stop a soggy quiche base)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. 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Into the oven at 290 C 37 minutes or until them look and smell ready.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> </span><img height="170" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/jScbphlczMdF1fRIur87VdL5uyHbJvnlS0SbTWaJd8_7n_COjcXN9xiHF_emPFV5rgMZsXAlAnLlOqtbb3KDCjfYe540URUgD8sO_OXnvtvVZRO70pzgCota4VlQhQSCS4S6-bJj=w127-h170" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre;" width="127" /> </p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">When these are in the oven, I have had a quick clean up, I have 30 minutes of reading time. I p</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">our a cup of hot water and sit down with my book.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book I keep reading and rereading is Imaging Decolonization. (BWB texts - <a href="https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/imagining-decolonisation/">https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/imagining-decolonisation/</a>) I think this book is essential reading for all educators who work in Aotearoa, New Zealand. If your personal development and professional work does not connect to the Treaty of Waitangi then, the question I ask is why not? Educators believe in equity and talk about inclusion and designing for it. Yet, if we are not immersing ourselves in personal and professional learning about Sovereignty, Tino rangatiratanga in education and schooling, conversations and actions about equity in education and schooling are like pushing water uphill with a rake. This is critical work.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">After I have read half of Ocean Ripeka Mercier’s article “What is Decolonisation?” it is time to get the quiches out of the oven. They smell delicious. As I let them cool for a couple of minutes I think about her reference to ecological decoloniseation. I look over to our little garden and wonder about what would the garden look like and how might I feel if from this moment on I plant plants that are native to this area? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: I cook like I teach. A little of this a bit more of that. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, once you have a sense of the ingredients for what they do, own it and share it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Smash out the most delicious flavours, knowing you can feed the family and read at the same time.</span></p><p><img alt="Imagining Decolonisation" height="221" src="https://www.bwb.co.nz/assets/Books/BWB1000_Imagining_Decolonisation_TIP_03_300ppi__FitWzM1Niw0NDBd.jpg" width="135" /> </p><p><a href="https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/imagining-decolonisation/">https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/imagining-decolonisation/</a><br /></p>Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-88055505419723825162019-10-02T15:18:00.001-07:002019-11-07T23:11:01.647-08:00UDL and Learner Variability: Teacher Variability / Student Variability (UDL #2)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />This year , Universal Design for Learning has totally consumed by every thought! <br /><br />My most demanding question that I have on loop is: Why should educators bother with UDL? I have never met an educaotr against the idea of inclusion and equity but with every other fabulous "program / frame/ lense " winging its way to our colleagues classroom and learning spaces, do they need to bother with UDL?<br /><br /><br />Has anyone noticed that UDL resources talk about learner variability? According to Grant and Perez (2018), the best way to address learner variability is through flexible design. In their book they offer ‘pause and reflect’ questions to support teachers to design for flexibility. The questions are fantastic and the UDL resources available on tki are gold, however, I have a niggling thought. Where is the explicit mention of adult / educator variability? As most of us would agree, educators encapsulate the definition of variable! So how do we design for educator variability?<br /><br /><br />I would argue, and it is taking me some time to think this through, but we do not talk about the variability of adults or working and designing for this variability as often as we could and I am wondering why we don’t. <br /><br /> To introduce a conversation about Learner Variability educators, I have been triying an activity that focussed on adults. The activity is called: Walk in my shoes - Adult Learner. (I have attached a link to this template below). The activity involved the teacher thinking about what conditions and or strategies they use to achieve each task on the sheet. When I recently did this activity with a group of educators, the educators chose one task on the list, they chose - Welcoming a visitor to school assembly speaking te reo Māori - and together they talked about all the different strategies they would need to use to achieve this. 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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grant, K.,& Perez, L. (2018). Dive into UDL Immersive Practices to Develop Expert Learners.<br /><br />Portland, Oregon : International Society for Technology in Education<br /><br />Ministry of Education (2019) Inclusive Design. Guide to Universal Design for Learning. Retrieved from <a href="https://www.inclusive.tki.org.nz/guides/universal-design-for-learning/">https://www.inclusive.tki.org.nz/guides/universal-design-for-learning/</a><br /><br />Walk in my shoes adult learner<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7o8rmw53fIvHOSczhOoOzqiwvzHVWPo7VCjO1vQfeA/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n7o8rmw53fIvHOSczhOoOzqiwvzHVWPo7VCjO1vQfeA/edit?usp=sharing</a></span><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adult Development.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> UDL is an entry point for conversations and engagement about adult development and adult learning. To understand and make explicit what have been and are our own barriers to learning. Learning about our students. For us as educators to be explicit about what it feels like to be wrong. (We were trained to know stuff and be right) As discussed by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berger, J. G. (2019).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The experience of being wrong is the experience of learning. Implementing Universal Design for Learning is about adults learning to be able to design learning for others. To see what is possible.</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-f0d176a1-7fff-1610-ffce-f23ed238233e" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For myself, the grit for UDL is for it to be applied to the actual purpose of education. It can be a lense from which we as educators can see, think, act and design differently. For the purpose of educative value. This idea of educative value comes from </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dewey (1938) and Whitehead (1929). They identified the purpose of education was to have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educative value. For Dewey (1938) and Whitehead (1929) Educative value is about intellectual development. Gilbert (2017) outlines the features of what both Dewey and Whitehead consider for learning to be educative. For Whitehead educative features include exploring the relationships ideas have with other ideas and that these are complex and that learning is about ideas (Hipkins et al. 2014). For Dewey, educative features include an ability to think about complex and abstract ideas. </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Supports us to work with uncertainty</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is a requirement for working in complex spaces. Rational: Best practice is based on certainty. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berger, J. G. (2019)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> suggests when we are certain we have a limited ability to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">notice possibilities.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> She refers to this as being ‘Trapped by rightness’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Supports a shift in our practice</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f1e24; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1.support their growth and development as an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f1e24; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">inclusive schoo</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1f1e24; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">l</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why am I blogging about this?
</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. I’m wondering about the assumption in education spaces that we all know why Universal Design for Learning is important. I hear oh we have done UDL. Done UDL? I’m not sure I understand this comment when I think of UDL as a way of living and seeing the world. Perhaps it is more Universal Design for Living?
2. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every educator I know is passionate about equal opportunity, equity of access. So why is it still so hard to design for equity of access? For myslef, UDL is a way of living. Making decisions in the present about how we want to live in the future. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s about social change. I've started asking myself…. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Is it possible that each day as educators </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #14171a; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">we make decisions
and take actions that lead to futures we do not actually want?” </span> </div>
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</b><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-64892259743833243202019-02-06T20:55:00.000-08:002019-02-06T21:50:09.063-08:00Theatre for Social Change - Mind over Manner NZ<br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Connect to the humanness in the other before you.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The message that resonated with me throughout the day was </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Be Generous".</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is mind over Manner?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Because, this professional development workshop was dynamic. At times the atmosphere was electrifying - as we were invited to step into the experiences portrayed in the role plays. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am excited because it is important to me that we explore simple ways of acting, thinking and doing things different each day. Things we as educators can try </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">where</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> we learn about </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ourselves</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and others.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Links to the building of </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Resilience and the conditions for the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discipline of Anticipation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. If I had one wish for staff professional development across Kahui Ako it would be, dial up Mind over Matter.</span></div>
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<br />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-45362989505246185512018-02-14T15:11:00.001-08:002018-02-26T23:46:22.318-08:00Karakia as lived experience<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We come together with aroha</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">We value and acknowledge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our diverse heritage and the places we come from</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The integrity we bring to this team</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The respect we have for each other and for the job we do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">And the connectedness we feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">The strengthens and empowers us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">To work together for a better world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ka hui tahi tatou</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">i raro i te korowai o te aroha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">E hāpai ana i ngā uaratanga o tēna o tēna o tatou.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ka tū kotahi tatou i raro i te ngākau tapatahi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Te mārohirohi me te awe o ngā mahi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">ka priir pono,</span></div>
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k<span style="font-family: "arial";">i te whakakaha me te whakamana t</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">atou ki a tatou.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> <a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/maori/world/te-reo-maori/karakia-prayers/index.html" target="_blank">What is a karakia?</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This week I have been captured by the story of how the RTLB cluster's karakia was created.</span><br />
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I heard that the <span style="font-family: "arial";">karakia was inspired by another karakia which came from Koraunui school, Stokes Valley, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Lower Hutt in Wellington. When I taught at Koraunui school I enjoyed the imagery of the karakia </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">and found the karakia to be the touch stone to my day. When I left Koraunui school, I then </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">carried the karakia to my next school.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ri</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">dgway School in Wellington. </span><br />
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F<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">or myself,<span style="font-family: "arial";"> karakia sets in </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">motion whakapuake te mauri o te reo, like an opening in the understanding of the life force within Māori language.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I am surprised by the connection I feel to the RTLB Cluster 29 karakia and am </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> wondering about karakia as a lived experience. For a karakia to be so part of practise that the essence of it imbudes thoughts and actions. The life force of the karakia, contributing to change in practice, where perhaps we can start seeing new possibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If karakia is able to support us to see possibilities and work with </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">metaphors that support us to see working together as </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">a living system then it may be quite possible </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">that karakia can support the conditions for living in this post-modern age of complexity. Where people coming together expereince emergent</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> behaviours because working </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">with people has limited predictability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Does your work place have a karakia / prayer? How does the karakia connect with what you value and believe?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the first publications I have started reading, is Kairaranga. The article I keep re reading is, The Art of Community … What Principles and Practices do RTLB need to Develop an Effective Community of Practice? Kairaranga Vol 18 Issue 1: 2017. I'm loving this article!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/institute-of-education/research/kairaranga/kairaranga_home.cfm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/institute-of-education/research/kairaranga/kairaranga_home.cfm</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From this article I think more about Teaching as Inquiry - experience tells me TAI is far from linear and we need to know what thinking and doing looks and sounds like when teaching / learning in complex spaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One more thing.... I have noticed a few conversations that explains different rolls in schools and education as a cog in a larger machine. I'm wondering about this becasue if we are saying we are working in a complex space and we need to work in relation to each other in processes that are not linear. Then a machine metaphor does not work for me. This is mainly because complexity and an ecological approach must engage with ambiguity and unpredictability. Two things I do not associate with machines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Art of Community … What Principles and Practices do RTLB need to Develop an Effective Community of Practice? Kairaranga Vol 18 Issue 1: 2017</span></div>
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<br />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-79825666764661204652017-08-23T01:44:00.000-07:002017-08-23T02:57:14.742-07:00Dishwasher as Pedagogy? <span style="font-family: "arial";">Does your staffroom have a notice similar to the one below? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do you find other teacher's empty coffee cups in your classroom?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Do senior students walk around the school at the end of a week / school term and collect up empty coffee cups?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are the dishes often left and done by our office administrators?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We talk about the importance of well being, building school culture and being culturally responsive. We prioritise energy for professional development on this thing called 21st C pedagogies. We talk, plan develop around the importance of the Key Competencies - a capabilities curriculum to prepare for the future of work and know in our hearts that our values and beliefs do transfer to our students and colleagues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, here's the gritty bit...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why are we not cleaning up after ourselves? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why are we leaving our cups on the bench? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What assumptions about the world underpin our actions?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Is the framing of this issue compatible with the way we see the world?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">How can we work with others to shape and re shape this issue?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">How does this issue shape and reshape us?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What is gained if all teachers sorted their dishes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">What is lost if all teachers sorted their dishes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What if... tomorrow every teacher in New Zealand put their coffee cup in the dishwasher? . We know the future requires us to focus on human capabilities. That capability starts in the kitchen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><em>Two days ago, our year three student teachers were preparing for their final practicum. I said, your values and beliefs tell your story - know how to load and unload the staff room dishwasher. I am less interested in all your fancy pedagogies if you do not understand what it means to be human in community with others.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><br />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-3606580522841538262017-07-16T00:02:00.000-07:002017-07-16T00:15:16.591-07:00Why Game Design?<b id="docs-internal-guid-fa883994-4a0d-e46e-f37c-745c169b8862" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Game: Never Alone </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Twitter: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/NeverAloneGame" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">@NeverAloneGame</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Web: </span><a href="http://neveralonegame.com/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://neveralonegame.com/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Never Alone keeps me awake at night. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">It's not that I constantly get killed by a bear, (which by the way occurs because I am a totally hopeless gamer and forget how to use the functionalities) It keeps me awake as this game evokes an unrelenting curiosity within my myself. There is a quality in the game that I find difficult to capture and express in words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I was introduced to this game by Rachel Bolstad <a href="https://twitter.com/shiftingthinkng" target="_blank">@shiftingthinkng</a> a couple of years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I attended a CORE Education Breakfast. <a href="https://twitter.com/coreeducation" target="_blank">@coreeducation</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I recall my school could not afford the whole morning session but $20 was doable. Believe me - my $20 bite size morning PD was ample! (I wonder if most PD should just be short and sharp and to the point where we interact with the essence.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Never Alone is the game that totally convinced me there was something in this thing called Games for Learning. So this game... we play.. for what purpose?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">People are some what polarised about the use of games for learning and games in the classroom and actually just digital games full stop.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I hear very few conversations about what is gained from creating & playing digital games.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I hear a lot about what is lost and a fear of loosing face to face interaction. (what I think of as the warmth of human interaction.) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">I hear about schools in NZ who have filtered out students having access to YouTube. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">When I talk to colleagues about Games for learning, more specifically the engagement with creating and playing digital games, seriously, I feel like I'm pushing drugs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Some how in the game Never Alone...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm interacting with some thing like a collaborative process, where I'm inside shared knowledge that by the actual interaction and lived game experience I am contributing to building shared knowledge. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">The actual learning in the game is taking place without conscious awareness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">I'm interacting with increasing levels of complexity and improvement</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">Although the game has a 'learning / educative' thing going on there is some thing about a bigger purpose going on.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial";">The building of an understanding in the game is non linear, a bit confusing and messy at times, often slow and for me difficult.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This game keeps reframing what I think of digital games.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">My own knowledge, perception and reality of digital games keeps colliding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are swags of seriously inspiring communities and individuals surfing this thing called Games for learning </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Never Alone</span>Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-37123277153634764432017-06-15T02:06:00.003-07:002017-06-15T02:16:01.936-07:00Humans and the Future of Work<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm inspired by this info graphic. I have been looking and thinking about it for some time now. When thinking of the future of work and the purpose of education, this is my go to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tomorrow I'm going to print this out and stick it in the inside cover of my copy of the New Zealand Curriculum.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ross Dawson on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/rossdawson" target="_blank">@rossdawson</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I've been playing around with word wanderer for a while now. I'm particularly keen to play with it in relation to Game Design. I am thinking that Word Wanderer has the capacity to assist us to see ideas from multiple perspectives. To focus on a process not on an end point. Inviting us to play a little with interlocking meanings and associations. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I first saw Fomison's art work, I instantly thought of Robert Evan's article titled</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often wonder about who we are as teachers and who we are becoming. Both collectively and as individuals. That our 'Teaching as inquiry' although is about furthering success for students, it is also about who we are and who we are becoming as teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Congenial relationships are</b>: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">about getting along well, being friendly, warm, and supportive.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #525252; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>By itself, it fosters a culture of niceness and privacy, not a culture of growth." Evans</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like the Christchurch Outer spaces project. Fomison's No! was only said out loud, outside within the commons when an earthquake totally shook and disrupted everything. When Fomison's No! could no longer be seen indoors, it was taken outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sunday sets the conditions for me to think and reflect.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm not rushed. I'm not in a heightened state of what some times feels like eye blistering efficiency. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have noticed I anticipate Sundays. Slow Sundays.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where slow thinking about schooling and education has become a life long joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On Sundays I'm in my zone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He talks about how we spend much of our life getting through. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An increasing sense of intolerance for the everyday. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A culture of waiting for the weekend...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When we are in our element - our sense of time changes. </span><br />
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3. <a href="http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/Articles/Article.aspx?ArticleId=9249">Teaching as inquiry - a refresher</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've taken a while to start writing my inquiry because, actually it's exactly like last years!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inspired by a workshop I went to run by Jennifer Garvey-Burger</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I spent all of 2015 looking at the gaps - in student learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, the one difference for my Inquiry this year is, I will not be singularly focussed on the 'gap in learning.' Instead, I will be attempting to focus on the 'system of learning' and how this impacts on the student's learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to try and do this by looking at the bigger picture of what is going on for the students. To look at the bigger picture I am going to use data from Positive Behaviour For Learning. </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">(PB4L) T</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o look at student/class behaviours and student / class academic achievement. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the start of April I attended a PB4L Tier 1 and 2 workshop. Our facilitator asked us:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>"How can we set up the student to fail? then try the opposite</i>."</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I instantly knew I had to give this a go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am also going to work on something about my self.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I am going to attempt to listen to learn rather than convince.</b> I want to see if its possible to listen to my students in a new way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea of listening differently has come from </span><span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , sans-serif;">Jennifer Garvey-Burger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>"In order to make a big impact, you need to think about small moves, smartly made. That means three things. Focus, leverage and acceleration.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Leverage = convincing others to contribute more energy than you have alone.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Acceleration = taking time for reflection, learning, and refinement to optimise for non-linear improvement."</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So here goes trying something a little bit different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">will</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> be adding to this post over the next few weeks and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> writing throughout the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch this space! (as you can see - I have data to transfer!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Planning to Achieve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strategic Goals </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All students learn, progress and achieve to their highest level</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Achievement targets are set for groups of learners based on robust achievement information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annual Target</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where do we want to be at the end of 2016?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Māori and Asian boys who are currently not achieving the writing standard for their year level will make above average progress towards achieving the standard in 2016.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Above average progress will be assessed by moving 2 sub levels within 6 months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baseline data</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who are the Māori boys in your class who are currently underachieving in writing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who are the Asian boys in your class who are currently underachieving in writing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you know that these boys are underachieving</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Name</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">running record & or STAR results</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Asttle</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">range in results</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Spelling</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peters & Pseudo</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">NS – teacher OTJs</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading & Writing</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">observations</span></div>
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</td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: 3P</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 3A</span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">enjoying writing onto his digital portfolio. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Seeks assistance form teacher when required.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Student 3 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">NB</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 4B</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-top: 3pt;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T1:Refuses to read. will read car manuals! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: During 1:1 reading. Recognising difference sentence structures and able to discuss their impact on the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Student 4</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: 3B</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: Negative about writing ability</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: wanting to get to mid day writers</span></div>
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<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Student 5<br /><span style="color: orange;">PD</span></span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: 3P</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 3A</span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: Quiet in class</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: Seeking learning conversations with the teacher.</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Student 6<br /><span style="color: red;">TE</span></span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: 3B</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 3B</span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Increasing independence in classroom routines. Is able to tell support teachers what he is working on and why. Excited about his learning.</span></td></tr>
<tr style="height: 0px;"><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Student 7<br /><span style="color: orange;">ZF</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Student 8<br />EG</span></span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: 3A</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 4B</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">T1:2B</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 2P</span></td><td colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">ZF: T1: always keen to write. T2:Has started reading for leisure!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">EG: T1/T2seeks assistance from peers& teacher</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Notes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Key Improvement Strategies </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will you do to make sure that these boys make above average progress in writing this year?</span><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #0066cc; font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">3x a week 12:00 - 12:30pm Students will be part of a </span></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="white-space: pre;">wiring program called Mid Day writers. 1:7 student </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="white-space: pre;">teacher ratio. This is extra writing milage and instruction.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Describe</span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the aspects of your whole class programme that will promote learning for this group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">T1: Starting Book Selling</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">T2: Students will attend an intensive writing group 1:7 teacher / student ratio 3x a week 'Mid Day Writers Guild'</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: 1:1 Reading with NB</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">* Al the boys need to be using the right click function on their devices</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">* Discuss with students families to start using Word Q. Down load not their own devices.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">T2: Explore use of spellodrome</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">T2: Students joining the Eggspedition program <a href="http://www.3plearning.com/readingeggs/">See link to Reading Eggs</a> <a href="http://www.3plearning.com/readingeggs/">See link to Reading Eggsonline event</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: x-small;">T2: constantly recheckin library cards / access to Wellington Central Library - issuing of books.</span><br />
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>HA Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">KB </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">OC </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">PD </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">TE </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">ZF </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">EG </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Paragraph writing. Topic Sentence</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What do you need to be successful in raising the achievement level of this group of boys?</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "cambria"; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading books that capture the students interest. Mirror texts. Text that reflect the students world.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Explicit planning, that collects qualitative and </span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria";"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">quantitative data.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I start on my spiral of inquiry journey...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Scanning. Scanning constantly knowing the gaps. Wondering how I can nudge the learning system. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Similar to last year, the students I am focussing on are quiet in class. Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/BeccaSweeney">@BeccaSweeney</a> 's comments in my 2015 Inquiry. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I'm going to talk to the students and ask them why they are quiet in class and what things do they think might help them improve in their writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Student suggestions that might help them improve in their writing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. Have instructions written on the board.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. Talk to the teacher 1:1 - not in a big or small group</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. Have more time to finish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. Work with a friend.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">5. Work in a small group on ideas for writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why students think they are quiet in class.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. Other students always ask the things they are thinking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. They put their hand up some times but teacher runs out of time to answer or does not see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. They have nothing to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. Teacher talks too fast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Based on student feed back and their honest reflection, a significant part of this inquiry as changing an aspect of myself. An example is I thought I was using 'wait time'. The experience for one student it is not enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b style="color: red;">Term 2</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: red; font-size: 13px;">Circumstance: </b><span style="font-size: 13px;">As a school we are constantly navigating towards what does it mean to create a collaborative teaching and learning environment. A key understanding around collaboration for us - is its not just creating something new within our team that could not have done alone, but creating teaching/ learning opportunities across teams.</span><b style="font-size: 13px;"> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: red; font-size: 13px;">Action: </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">'Mid Writers Guild' is established! 3x a week. The students work on whole class writing in a smaller group with one teacher. The teacher they work with is from the Year 5/6 team. Whilst she works with the 'Mid Day writers', I am working with her whole class on 'creative commons - digital citizenship'.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: red; font-size: 13px;">Result:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">So far, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">students</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> are </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">optimistic and arrive to 'mid day writers' knowing what it is they need to be learning. They tell the teacher what they need to know how to do. Each student takes their most current asstle results with them. Some of the students stick next learning steps on their key board. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">They meet in a shared work space in the library. Students are not needing to be reminded to attend. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">During Term 2 every teacher at my school will have two teaching observations. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">1x </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">appraisal</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> observation</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1x peer observation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">These </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">observations</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> must be relevant to our Teaching as Inquiry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">I am about to have my first appraisal observation. My </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">colleague</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"> and I have decided to focus on the same thing. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Focus: Clarity about what is to be learnt. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">We are </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">using Evaluation Associates observation Template: <i><b>Assessment for Learning Teacher's observation Notes - Guide to completion. Clarity about what is to be learnt. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><b>What am I noticing?</b></u></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">The teaching who leads the 'Mid Day Writers Guild' is not needing to rush to the group to get them started, the group can manage them selves and are ready when she arrives. This is a new experience for this teacher. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: red; font-size: 13px;">Circumstance:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Based on learning conversation with my students, they have said they will learn better if they work in a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">small</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> group with their writing. I am going to work with them on creating a mind map. This group are part of the '<b>Mid Day Writers Guild</b>.' They all need to learn about topic sentences and the writing of paragraphs. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 13px;"><b>Action:</b></span></span><br />
We worked in a small group on creating a mind map together. The focus of the mind map is to dig deeper in the topic so students have material for writing a paragraph.<br />
<span style="font-family: "\22 arial\22 " , "\22 tahoma\22 " , "\22 helvetica\22 " , "\22 freesans\22 " , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The mind map focus was. A neighbour has been told by Zealandia not to feed the native bird the Kākā. Some nights she has up to 100 birds visiting. Using the critical thinking tools. </span><br />
Whilst working I asked the students is this work easy? hard? or just right? How do you know? The last section of clarity about what is to be learnt was students have the opportunity to check their understanding of the learning.<br />
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Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-37032382691414123572016-03-04T23:13:00.004-08:002016-03-04T23:31:19.486-08:00Key Competencies for the future<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Last week I attend a conference </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">put on by </span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.25999999046325684px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greater Wellington Regional Council with <a href="https://twitter.com/NZTAeducation">@NZTAeducation</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As always, stunning provocations from Rose.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rose started her plenary by asking us...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Think of an an episode from your own teaching experience where you saw " lifelong learning" in action...</span><br />
<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; white-space: pre-wrap;">The instant silence in the room was not lost on us. This question stopped us in our tracks. We </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">immediately needed to think and think hard.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My group shared examples like...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things that interrupted us.
Things that jarred us.
Shocked us.
Woke us up.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #292f33; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I then wondered if it was possible that</span><br />
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Perhaps, might be,
Situations where certainty & uncertainty were in balance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>So, when I'm wondering what does collaboration look, feel and sound like. I'm not sure 'take' is assisting in the conditions for collaboration to play out. Has any one else thought about this? </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Perhaps... What might I contribute to the message today? If we asked ourselves this we might then need to think a bit harder than usual. </i></span><br />
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<br />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-19050445251506165512016-03-04T12:11:00.003-08:002016-03-04T12:11:57.094-08:00Game design creates collaborative ‘hum’<h1 class="entry-title" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The following post has been copy pasted straight from <a href="http://interfaceonline.co.nz/2016/02/10/game-design-creates-collaborative-hum/">Interface Online Magazine</a></span></h1>
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Game design creates collaborative ‘hum’</h1>
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<strong><img alt="diana_grace" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-607" src="https://paul548if.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/diana_grace.jpg?w=610" style="background-image: none !important; border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 570px; padding: 1px;" />Wellington teacher Diana-Grace Morris makes time for her students to design games in class because it fosters a unique interaction among them she doesn’t see in any other learning activities, writes Wayne Erb.</strong></div>
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There is an energetic rise and fall of sound when a class of Year 7-8 students work together to design games, says teacher Diana-Grace Morris.</div>
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“When students are creating games, the classroom soundscape moves quickly from silent to slow talking, then to loud, fast talking. Then it drops down to silent and re-loops. I refer to this soundscape as the ‘hum’ and it reflects a real learning hum that is going on.”</div>
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Diana-Grace is Assistant Principal at Ridgway School in Wellington. She blogs and tweets about future-focused learning and is in the reference group of teachers for the NZ Transport Agency’s Game Design Competition (see sidebar).</div>
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She believes game-based learning can promote ‘strong collaboration’ amongst students – something that is evident both in the outcome and during the process of creation.</div>
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“When my students make a new game, they are creating something that they could not create on their own, and to get that result, there is tension in the group – a lot of it. We need our students to experience these tensions, as that is when students are busy putting their key competencies into play.</div>
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“So, in order to move towards strong collaboration, you need to plan for how the key competencies can be firmly anchored into the teaching and learning process.”</div>
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Diana-Grace says learning within a key competencies frame gives the class a way to explore future-focused learning. This focus can emerge through thinking and doing things in such a way that learning includes not just what a student knows, but what they can do with what they know. Collaborating with others is often critical to providing such rich opportunities for students.</div>
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<span style="color: blue;">During game design lessons, Diana-Grace has seen her students</span></div>
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<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">highly engaged with the game design process;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">negotiating different social/friendship groupings;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">moving around the classroom to check each other’s work;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">playing each other’s games and giving fast, critical feedback;</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">improving their game design quickly as they gain feedback and build their understanding of what makes games work well; and</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: blue;">keen to support others in learning coding skills to achieve a particular functionality.</span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;">For more from Diana-Grace see her blog at <a href="http://exploriosity.blogspot.co.nz/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">exploriosity.blogspot.co.nz</a></span></div>
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“After seeing the games my students are creating, and the experiences they have had with social good games, I think it is possible for game-based learning to be a vehicle for thinking about the present and future differently,” she added.</div>
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“For myself, to teach, act, and think differently requires the teaching and learning space to oscillate between certainty and uncertainty.</div>
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“The apparent certainty of curriculum knowledge gets applied into a variety of certain and uncertain spaces. An uncertain space might be a context that the class has not previously understood, where we are unsure what to do, but this uncertainty provides an opportunity for new learning to take place.</div>
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“I create spaces for my students to design games in class because I observe the students relating to each other in ways I haven’t seen or heard in other learning experiences.” <b> </b></div>
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<b>Wayne Erb</b> is a freelance writer.</div>
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<b>Game Design Competition 2016</b></h4>
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Organised by the NZ Transport Agency, the Game Design Competition 2016 is open to Year 7-13 students and runs through Terms 1 and 2. It provides an authentic context for students to design digital or non-digital games about road safety.</div>
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Entries are by teams of three or more. The competition website includes game design tasks linked to curriculum resources across several learning areas.</div>
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For more see centre pages or go to <a href="http://education.nzta.govt.nz/gamecompetition" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">education.nzta.govt.nz/gamecompetition</a></div>
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or download it <a href="https://interfacemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/education-portal-news-issue-29-print.pdf" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here Education Portal News – Issue 29 PRINT</a><a href="https://interfacemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/education-portal-news-issue-29-print.pdf" style="color: #0094d2; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="epn_i29" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13560" height="300" src="https://interfacemagazine.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/epn_i29.jpg?w=212&h=300" style="background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; border: none !important; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 10px; max-width: 570px; padding: 1px;" width="212" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why title a blog post 'thinking is not optional?'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I mean, many of us are educators and we get paid to think. Don't we? Do we?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I attended #educampwelly yesterday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of being in conversations with educators from around Wellington. We were talking about Game Based Learning. There was agreement amongst some teachers, that it is the school time table that stops them from being able to engage with Game Design in the classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've been thinking a lot about this. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I know it's a reality - many of us in classrooms are shadowed by an internal voice that whispers "so little time - so much to do". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, I realise I'm tired of this response.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our role as educators is to think. This is not optional.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In New Zealand we are working with an outstanding future focussed curriculum document. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Are we actually reading this document?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Game Based Learning, Game Design is simply another vehicle for us to think, do and act differently in our classrooms. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is our task to think and to think hard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Future focussed teaching is about thinking - perhaps working with another teachers recipe, but not using exact quantities. - We are not cooks. We are chefs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are going for a slow cook. Ideas take time. Thinking 'how' with our time table takes time. However it is possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am reminded of Robert Kegan's work. He talks about the process required regarding that which we are subject to - we need to make object.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Is it possible this is a key skill towards developing conditions for change?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.” </span><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56940.Robert_Kegan" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Robert Kegan</a></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“At the simplest level, any particular expression of the immunity to change provides us a picture of how we are systematically working against the very goal we genuinely want to achieve.” </span><br style="color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">― </span><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/56940.Robert_Kegan" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Robert Kegan</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">, </span><span id="quote_book_link_18915979" style="color: #181818;"><a class="authorOrTitle" href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6134952" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization</a></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have mentioned this book previously on this blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm going to re read this book over the next couple of months. I'm going to do a slow read. The kind of read where you really sit with the flavours and wait in between chapters. I'm hoping to notice a deeper flavour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm finding my self rethinking the importance of asking different questions and the role different questions play in shaping feed back. I'm thinking this is more potent that I first thought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am wondering how the ideas in this book can inform my teaching Inquiry during 2016. At first glance things like 'teaching Inquiries' are treated as complicated. Almost as if they were a puzzle that with the right amount of knowledge and skills we will be able to solve. However, my thinking has shifted. Teaching Inquiries are complex. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: It is the process of doing. Be the change you want to see, include as many others networks as possible as diverse as possible. Have an open hand. Engage in activities that motivate creativity, change and foster</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> strong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">collaboration towards idea improvement and the building of knowledge. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since writing this blog post I have read Jim Daytor’s work. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A: It is the process of speaking up. If opportunities arise where assumptions can be questioned step in, up and out! Be reflective, speaking ethically and critically. Know your research,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> be the research</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and share! </span><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is possible that a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">c</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ting</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6aa84f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> different needs to be so different that we feel unsettled. When our puse beats faster. That feeling when perhaps we are not ready. That may be the time to act. </span></div>
<br />Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8080286521804163329.post-65653832122371792712015-10-10T01:03:00.000-07:002015-10-10T01:09:52.359-07:00Knowledge Building<b id="docs-internal-guid-a3f371b6-50bb-cff8-dad5-4381ed83a207" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Knowledge building may be defined as the production and continual improvement of ideas of value to a community, through means that increase the likelihood that what the community accomplishes will be greater than the sum of individual contributions and part of broader cultural efforts.”</b></span></div>
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<a href="http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2148/Knowledge-Building.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>MARLENE SCARDAMALIA CARL BEREITER</b></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One response to exploring this question was the development of </span><a href="http://mathslikeapirate.blogspot.co.nz/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Maths Like a Pirate</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="Blender3D_LoopingParticleFire.gif" height="175px;" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KK5nLQDlSZ5ct2V2Z18_5DAkiGJX5zx4DiZx-n1RBDRmRbyDot0j9W_BvGiZh36Btsi8olmSD9fDUxnkg1t0VvWk1OmD_o1E2aOYpNaRSWnvxBhOFDtNeZe28aYyX0OGunNREpr7" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="132px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No use wishing for knowledge building.</span>Diana-Gracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11132584736916505639noreply@blogger.com0