Problem Solving for Maths

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Problem solving

DFI Day 9 - Revision - 30 May 2019

Started with WWW

I sat the Google Exam - I passed and am now a Google Certified Educator Level 1.

Ubiquitous

This is the final word about the Manaiakalani pedagogy and really means that our learning or teaching needs to be available for our students Anytime, Anywhere and Anyhow. The 3 A's mean that there are o excuses for learning to happen. Our sites are the best way for this to happen and this is where video's of our teaching are most helpful. I can see that in Maths this would be vital. I need students to be able to not rely on me to be beside them all the time to explain everything. This will also help with the students being able to be life long learners which is part of the NZ Curriculum. I will be looking into how this can happen and what I need to do for this to work for me. Our next topic in Maths is Algebra skills so it will be vital for the students to be able to go back and look at video's and check out explanations.

This 9 weeks of the DFI has been truly enlightening for me. I have moved from being a teacher who was scared to share their teaching and resources to one who is willing to show what I am doing and not be afraid of having a go at everything. There have been parts of the course which I won't use but that's ok. Not everything works for everyone. I've still got a lot of learning to do but that's life in general. Overall this has been PD that I'm so pleased I took the plunge to do and would encourage any other teacher to do it. 

My understanding of the Manaiakalani pedagogy has improved heaps and I'm now actively looking at how I include it across the board in my teaching.

Thanks Vicki and Makaore!!

My badges for my hard mahi

DFI Day 2 - 21 March 2019

Today we started off by exploring the Learn aspect of the Manaiakalani kaupapa. We think we know what learning is being teachers but in this 21st century 'learning' is very different depending on your context. As a Music teacher the learning that goes on is a lot more practical than in another area where there is more written work needed. I also teach Maths and we've just done some practical measurement but a lot of Maths is thinking and writing in a traditional manner.
I really like the step ladder approach of Build knowledge, Making meaning, Apply understanding. It is a different way of saying what it is that we are asked to do as teachers. We spoke a little bit about the SAMR methodology, which I have heard about, and how we can move between this and it is also like a ladder.

We have also looked at Google Keep, Hangouts, Email, Calendar and how to handle our tabs. Apart from Google docs and drive some of these we need to use on a regular basis and it is interesting that at college we have staff who use these regularly and very well and others who are still learning.

Today I imported my timetable from Kamar into Google Calendar. I noticed that the calendar can be brought up next to my email and this means that I won't have to keep moving between google and kamar all day. I was very excited about this. I do use a written planner but don't put a whole lot in it. However I maybe able to plan a bit better and use this in my google site so parents know what is being done in class. This would be very helpful in my Maths class where there is a lot of content to get though in a short amount of time.

I also set up a filter for my Musicnet messages which seem horrendous but there were only 108 of them, however as I check I can see that 2 messages have been directed to the folder which is great. I would like to learn more about Hapara and how to use this more effectively so I don't have to have students sharing their work with me every lesson.

After having a quick look at Google Keep I'm not sure whether I would use it in a professional capacity, but will maybe explore using it in personal way. I don't use my phone much for other than txt'ing, phoning, maps, playing games, etc.

The final thing we did today was explore and use Hangouts which is now renamed Meet. We learned to use our headphones and speak with each other in a meeting situation. Again in a Music classroom I'm not sure how I would use this. Here is the conversation I had with Maria and Kylie about some blogs written by students in the Summer Learning Project.