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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
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Kia ora Mary
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your reflections from Day 1 of the Reading Practice Intensive: Reading is Core to Learning. I enjoyed reading about your important takeaways from the day’s sessions including ‘the importance of knowing your learners as readers’ and ‘being a teacher-as-reader role model’. I agree that it can be confronting, but also empowering to reflect on the impact we have on learners' positive dispositions towards reading widely, for enjoyment and interest. The research is overwhelming: the more learners read (e.g. outside the classroom, at home, at the library) the more positive their achievement, oral language development and ultimately their life outcomes. It’s certainly sobering, but like you say, something we can influence through our actions, dispositions towards reading and the opportunities we create. Links between home and school are vital and we will explore this further in the RPI.
I really like that you are interested in analysing the findings from your learners’ Reading Interest Survey and the LS2 Reading for Enjoyment Challenges. I would be keen to hear how you plan to implement this across a term or over 6 months as an additional component to your reading programme.
Our facilitators are excited to follow your professional thinking and reflections as you engage further with the RPI and the other participants in relation to your teaching context.
Nga mihi
Naomi R.
Literacy Facilitator - Manaiakalani Reading Practice Intensive
Malo e lelei Mary
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to continuing our korero and wondering what you found out about your tamariki as readers?
I hope you've enjoyed sharing your favourite books with your learners and am really interested to find out how they reacted.
Ngā mihi
Toni