Kia Eke Panuku Appraisal
- Nicole Watts
- Mar 15, 2016
- 2 min read
On March 15th I had the Kia Eke Panuku Appraisal completed in my 9MAT (9E) class. At the conclusion of the appraisal Lois and I discussed culturally responsive pedagogy that I had utilised within the lesson. This discussion is recorded in the PDF below. I also had the opportunity to set myself some goals to work on:
To bring the students personalities and individual interests into the classroom and learning
To show more of my own personality in the classroom to improve the learning community
To develop my academic feedback and feed forward for the students
12/4/2016 Reflection
I haven’t had that many lessons with 9E since the observation so I haven’t met my goals to a level I'd like yet. But, I have begun to implement some strategies:
In terms of feedback/feed forward I have been making sure that I am stopping the students more regularly to check for understanding and mark the questions that they are working on; I have been wandering around the room and checking in on students by asking them separate questions to the task, also checking for understanding (cheating was becoming an issue); and, I have collected in books to actually have a more thorough look at work which gives me a better idea if there are common misunderstandings, or not. Last week I set an assignment using Google Drive which gave me the chance to use the “comments” tool to provide immediate feed forward to each group about specific things that they were doing great and what they could do to improve the quality of their work.
In terms of utilising the students cultural toolkit – the assignment I set on Google Drive was a new kind of activity I was trying out. The students were required to create a poster in groups that celebrated mathematics and language. Each group had a different language that they were focusing on and they created some great educational posters that showed translation from English to the specific language for counting numbers. In terms of content the students were very engaged and excited about the task – specifically the students who got to share their knowledge of the language with others. The students learning a new language were just as enthused. Also, the use of the Chromebooks was another way to engage interest from the students as they all just love using technology!
Coming back from my experience so far I am looking to schedule in one lesson a week, or fortnight, where we will use the Chromebooks for learning. I will have to see how this goes in terms of bookings though.
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