The Knackered Teacher

What would I like to improve? My kids confidence in themselves What am I perplexed by? Why do my children not see their worth? - they ‘give-up” instead of trying! What am I really curious about? How you can encourage leadership for the lower-level learners What do I think would really make a difference? Growth Mindset What is something I would like to change? Leader and followership - all kids having a go! What would happen to my students’ learning if I did _______? How can I implement A growth mindset (Rather than just talking about it with the kids ? Trust/collaborative games? How can I improve My students growth mindset ? Look up John W Creswell for Research informed practice. I think I have chosen… Growth Mindset/Mana potential - Sarah Growth Mindset/Leadership/Followership - Susan The potential of Kaupapa Māori Levels most suited to “Growth Mindset” Tino Rangatiratanga - The Principle of Self-determination The principle of tino r...

Week 19 - Community of Practice Descriptive Stage For this task I have chosen two topics which I feel go hand in hand and that I feel quite inspired about. Implementing Technology innovation in the classroom. 21st Century Skills What is a Community of Practice (COP)? According to Cultivating communities of practice: Making them grow (Knox, B. 2009), a COP is ‘a group of people who share a passion for something they know how to do, who interact regularly in order to learn how to do it better.’ This allows people in the COP to create, expand and exchange knowledge, allowing individual capabilities to be further developed. There are three underlying elements that contribute to the definition of a COP as defined by Wenger (2000); joint enterprise (domain), mutual agreement (community) and shared repertoire (practice). By engaging in a COP with fellow teaching peers, this would allow me another avenue to follow and share technology innovations and tap int...

L ooking back on the past 17 weeks of Mindlab and with changing my year level this year, I realise I have made a number of changes to my teaching practice and re-thought my role as a Teacher in the classroom, content, content delivery and the learners role. I have used various digital technologies and apps to not only teach my lessons,  but to make them purposeful, authentic and engaging. I have been ‘training’ my learners how to use different apps for different purposes so that eventually they can take the lead in their learning and decide how they present their work. W e adopted a more blended and collaborative learning approach in the classroom which resulted in more student engagement and ownership from the students.  I have stepped back from being the Teacher who teaches to the learners, to becoming the ‘facilitator’ of their learning - this is not something I had done before having come from teaching 5 years olds for the past 4 years and always being at the ...