2016Attended DRS day in Hamilton. Shared what is happening in this year of Mercy, how class observations should look/have. Also initiatives other schools are doing in their RE classes. I found this really good to touch base and get ideas for further RE lessons.
- Cross made of holy pics-Caritas week
- Prayer diary to go home each week with a child. By end of year-lists of prayers to share.children take ownership.
- Korowhai on year of mercy doings/sayings
- prayer circle of hands and put into shapes and video for slide share for parents
- prayer cards for staff prayer table
Reflection: Great ideas gained, seem to be on track. Hours seems a mess from their end, they will tidy this up. Discussed bishops letter to BOT on DRS. Very warmly recieved by DRS. Discussed DRS being part of mangaement. I will do this maybe later once got head around all other.
Looking forward to next one.
Term 3 2015
Attended Andrew Wood and Christine Wood-A day focused on scripture.
Very informative, high level pitch at theology. It did make me realise how much knowledge on scripture I have and how much more there is! But the importance of connections between scripture to show evidence and links for learners was great.
I have tried to make prayer time a little more theology based at times...by giving an explanation of what the feast day means, the colours used in the church mean, and what the readings we are saying refer to. These are yr 2 but I have been able to simpilfy some of the teachings of the church in their terms.
Andrew
Wood and Christine Wood
A day focused on scripture.
17/08/15
Be aware of the old testament. Need to
know things from the old testament in order to understand new testament.
Salvation
History.
God as father
raising humans to be sons and daughters in Heaven.
Have to understand
the covenants in order to understand the ‘plan’.
Creation/exodus
and kingdom are the 3 themes that come up again in new testament .
Many convenants
before Christ…Christ said he would be the everlasting king and will make a new
kingdom for all to be raised up.
Christ’s ascension
is the enthronement of Jesus o the eternal throne.
house as in
temple- a place through which God will dwell.
Jesus is the high
priest of the temple. Covenant is only used once by Jesus. at the last supper.
Covernant is a
more personal agreement.
Jesus swore an
everlasting covernant-eternal life or eternal death. Before Christ it was
temporal blessings…with Christ it was promised to be a everlasting blessing.
God create the day
and night and the three realms of the earth…time.
Order and purpose
to creation. He saw it all and said it was good…gods love is goodness
itself. He made a covenant so Adam
will become part of gods family…otherwise adam and eve will be just like the
animals on the earth. we are gods children. We have a plan to get out of the
sin of the originals.
Oiginal tabernacle
and temple were decorated to represent garden of eden. god dwelled with both
those with the people. the whole body of Christ. intimacy with God with right
worship. Get that right and earthly relations will happen.
Andrew
Wood
How did Jesus read and teach the
scriptures.
Typology
is the study of types and a type is a person, place, thing, event or
institution of the old testament. That foreshadows the above of the new
testament.
Jesus like moses
will perform something like a new start.
3 stories:
-The conversion of
the 2 deciples on road…on nite of resurrection.
-The conversion of
saint Augustine
-The initial
stages of Jesus ministry in Lukes gospel.
1: Jesus tries to
allicit a response from them…they look sad, because Jesus has disappeared. They
feel Jesus has let them down. 3rd day since resurrection. Disbelief
here…seen visions of angels that said he was alive. Jesus talked about the old
testament to them. They still don’t recognize him.
He has eucharist with them. diciples see him only when he performs
the eucharist and the reading of the scriptures.
2: AUGUSTINE was
familiar with the Christian faith. He was very disappointed with the reading of
the scriptures.
Term 1 2015
Attended voluntary in- school PD
-on google drive apps and docs information with Anne and Lynley. Achieved setting up of accts on google and clarifying access to my docs, blogs and emails under new gmail address.
Also got advice on how to set up a blog for the special needs students I work with.
Attended EDUCAMPZ NZ:
Lots of great sharing of digital resources available. Snipets to see these in action and the possible outcomes. I particulary enjoyed listening to JO MACKINSON from Napier and hearing how she turned a decile 1 well below NS school around and now the school is at or above in NS and the methods she used.
I chatted to her afterwards and she is willing to come to SMS to run a workshop on raising achievement across the school. I really enjoyed this and listening and asking questions of other teachers in the same field and teaching the same age groups.
Let staff know of relevance and exciting workshop and who Jo is.
Rob Clark Presentation:
Rob showed us ways to add labels and better ways to manage our numerous emails that we receive on a weekly basis.
Some good shortcuts to using the google drive email accts. Some I were aware of, and some I will use.
Rob has made a link with us so we can communicate with him with questions.
Google Apps for Education Inservice:
Presenter-Kimberly Ouano
-digital education to teach
-byod ‘learn create share ‘ is a model pedagogy.
-engagement and motivation were the motivators and to hook boys and PI and Maori into learning
-increase a range of creative and innovative resources and achievement across the board
-learn and share and collaborative work together and share
-online tools help songs etc
-google docs are used to file all work and ---learning then can be used to example, share and explain to the class to the parents to the teachers, too and to over seas.
-helps develop a personal voice-blogs, develop authentic audience
-connected learners
-raise student achievement
-ubiquitous-open learning available to all to see and learn
this model helps challenges to be met that are appropriate for their own school, special character can be enforced too.
- in partnership to help with the learning
- makes it global and anytime any place.
We want to teach above the SAMR line
eg animations, short clips, blogs etc
Teach good habits at the start,
when starting do devices in afternoons, logins
Creating Learning Tasks with GAFE
child links into site via class common space like class blog, website
child can monitor their own progress and explore beyond 9-3
kids click on a document they can only addd not delete from it.
writing-they make a copy and can edit their own
EXPLAIN EVERYTHING APP very good.
To make a table of contents
insert, table of contents, google docs click on refresh button, reload
Make a new 2015 folder :
Just create google document so instead of word
use a shot of pic and add link to it for chn to do ..
google login :bernie@stmarysrotorua.school.
password stmarys1958
An interesting day with Kimberly I showed her some of the google docs I have been working on and she gave me some shortcuts to use.
I really like sharing work and planning like this between colleages and teams. Heather and I are editing our weekly plan for room 8 on google docs from week one.
October 2014
Attended 'Boosting Juniors in Maths ' workshop at Westbrook school.
Jo Matthews shared her research findings of watching and interviewing juniors working with math concepts.
She did stress that using equipment was key to solidifying understandings of concepts covered.
Also to show lots of ways to make a number and represent number. To use plain bottle caps is best. and kids can put these into groups and label their group. Then the children can see what they have done and visually represent their understandings.
Jo said use lots of different equipment to represent the same thing.
Rather than use before and after use more, less.
Jo Matthews - Boosting Junior Maths - Thursday 30 October 2014
This workshop was provided by Jo Matthews who is a Mathematics Facilitator.During her thesis she discovered some gaps in Maths teaching. One in particular that stood out was that our children are still 'counting all' going into Year 3. Games we do with the students are encouraging them to count all instead of having the confidence to use their knowledge of number patterns to count on.
She discussed the following with various examples of how we can use materials to teach each area.
Pattening - Laminate A3 size dots for subitising - like flash cards.
Great old games from NZ Maths - Blast off, Party time
Use iceblock sticks in bundles of 10, to encourage them to just count in 10s rather than counting all.
Language to use - care to be taken using before and after. Chn seem to struggle with Before - using more than/less than better language to use.
Basic Facts - use double sided counters - using 5, get chn to roll out - what makes 5.
Basic Facts unit on NZ Maths useful.
Place Value
Number sense.
Copy of powerpoint in my RTC folder.
show all ways to represent number
sixty three, 63, six 10s 3 ones, six 10 bundles 3 ones.
Attended PD on OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY hosted by Wendy J from Waikato University
Wendy talked about the confusions that exsist in this test. But that detailed observations can provide feedback to our instruction. We can then modify our instruction to meet the learning needs of particular children in formative stages of new learning.
Blue book of Marie Clay now in use up dated version has some changes.
In letter Id of test-T to use letter, sound or word given as a positive response.
In HRSW -be careful not to say dictation too slow for them. May indicate where to start.
Look for what they use dominantly. Look at confusions v unknowns in letter iD. When 6 year net done use different word list and different book.
She can be contacted for future advice.
wendyjj@waikato.ac.nz
Attended PD on OBSERVATIONAL SURVEY hosted by Wendy J from Waikato University
Wendy talked about the confusions that exsist in this test. But that detailed observations can provide feedback to our instruction. We can then modify our instruction to meet the learning needs of particular children in formative stages of new learning.
Blue book of Marie Clay now in use up dated version has some changes.
In letter Id of test-T to use letter, sound or word given as a positive response.
In HRSW -be careful not to say dictation too slow for them. May indicate where to start.
Look for what they use dominantly. Look at confusions v unknowns in letter iD. When 6 year net done use different word list and different book.
She can be contacted for future advice.
wendyjj@waikato.ac.nz
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