Reading is Core to Learning : Day 1, Term 1 2023

 

Professional Blog | 

Reflect on today’s learning and post to your teacher’s professional blog. Read and comment on your Breakout Group’s reflections.  Reflect and share with colleagues.

Use these prompts to get you started (Note: the prompts are not prescribed questions and should only be initial fuel for a wider reflection).

• What did I learn that increased my understanding of the kaupapa and pedagogy of the Manaiakalani Reading Programme?

=> The importance of knowing your learners; using the "Good Reader profile" as a gateway to gather student voice about their interests, their wonders, their anxieties with reading, and constructing reading goals.

=> Using reading across the curriculum like the Ururangi recsouce

• What did I learn that could improve my capability and confidence in teaching reading?

=> I need to be a role model for my students. Taking part in the reading survey at the beginning was confronting. I took that opportunity to reflect on how powerful we are as educators. I did not realised that

I can easily influence the behaviors of my learners with my actions. Exposing my students to my favourite books as a child and growing up, sharing the top 10 books, sharing that through the art of reading we are expanding our horizon to the world we cannot see.

• What did I learn that could be used with my learners? 

=> The Good reader Profile will be my best tool to understand my learners attitude towards reading.

=> Reading Challenge

=> Ground Rules for Talk

• What did I learn that could be shared within my wider community, with either colleagues, or whānau/aiga? 

=> Good Reader Profile

=> Reading Challenge

=> Ground Rules for Talk

=> the Kakapo Resource - a layout for a timetable for planning