Where do I begin! What a day...
The Manaiakalani Reading Programme is based on best practice research. It is linked to the Learn, Create, Share kaupapa that is central to learning in the Manaiakalani way.
My key takeaway is that the more I know about my learners as readers the more I will be able to help them become successful in their reading attempts. I liked the idea of the reading profile survey and see it as being a good starting point. I can see that to improve my teaching I am gong to have to improve my knowledge of children's literature - whoopy another excuse to read! I am going to set myself a target to read at least one book recommended by my students every three weeks.
The impact that being a good reader has on life outcomes, while not revelation, is important to visit. This slide resonated, I like the concept of an active reading communities. I look forward to building a reading commmunity in my learning space.
I have used Talk Moves in Maths in the past but am keen to impliment the Rules for Talk. Being able to talk in a positive way and buidling the social skills of learners is so important in the digital age. I will be intersested to see how this goes, as I feel I have met some interesting characters this year and their reaction to this strategy will be an interesting inquiry.
I have seen the Manaiakalani model for Design Learning before but have not engaged with it a lot. I can see how it will work well with Tier 1 Learners ( those just below). I will be interested to see if I can make it work for my Tier 2 and 3 learners (beloiw and well below). I have always found it challenging to impliment their specialised programmes as well as keeping them up with our wider class programme, because I like to integrate literacy with other curriculum areas.
Identifying my stregths and weaknesses, within the Design for Learning, was a useful exercise. It shows. the areas in which I can grow my own capability
I look forward to completing the Readers Survey, and riles for conversations with students. We had collectively decided as a class to do the Census in Schools Programme - inline with the National Census. I will discuss if the class would like to follow up their class reading Census with a wider school census. The results of these could then form the basis of a peer discussions.
I am excited and looking forward to the coming week as I build my capability as a teacher of reading
