To ensure that I am delivering sufficient evidence with regards to my Inquiry I need to have the Inquiry guidelines to work from. I will use the questions in this guide to inform my teaching and my planning.
Teaching Inquiry: What strategies ( evidence based) are likely to help my students learn this?
Teaching and Learning: Ako
Learning Inquiry: What happened as a result of the teaching and what are the implications for future teaching?
Is there something I need to change?
What are the next steps for learning?
Focusing Inquiry: What is important ( and therefore worth spending time on) given where my students are at?
Evidence:
Observation of other teachers/ students, asking for feedback, reflections, PLG minutes
Professional Development notes. Professional learning Blog
What progress have you made so far?
-Getting familiar with some google apps: drive, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, draw.
-My weekly planning, since the start of the year is all in my drive ( spreadsheets). Knew nothing about google drive until the beginning of the year.
Term 2 Reading and math’s Planning has been linked onto my Weekly Plan also.
- Becoming familiar with Hapara Dashboard and sharing files with the class or certain groups.
-Have set up a Professional Learning blog (PLB) with evidence of learning.
-Attended all PLG group meetings. Here we have discussed positives and any issues that have risen. See google docs link.
-Resources shared
What difficulties have you faced?
-Tried to set up Professional Learning through google sites. This was very difficult and had to switch to a blog.
-Lots of different bits of information in different areas. Issue has been resolved by keeping information in just the school account.
-Google Chrome not working properly on my computer. Will log that as an ICT issue. This has been resolved now, I had an app installed which was causing the problems, once this app was uninstalled chrome was working fine.
-Having different logins and emails. My PLB is under a different account from my class blog. Couldn't find it for a while. Issue has been resolved by setting up different web browser window logins.
-Some children have got chromebooks but are not allowed to bring them in yet. 1-1 device/student ratios would make my lessons more fluid.
- Which is the best device to use? Ipads are not good for spreadsheets and drawings.
-Time: It’s all very exciting and there’s so much potential, I need to manage my time effectively so it doesn’t go into personal life.
Where to from here?
- Keep postings onto blog regular. Goal: 3/4 in depth postings a term.
- Managing my accounts effectively so I’m not double handling ( adding authors to blog to eliminate changing account user.) Still don’t know if this will solve that problem. This issue has been resolved by having different user accounts when using chrome. I have an account for my class email ( where I go when writing up my blog) for my personal stuff and my teaching account ( for everything else)
- Continue with using GAFE, in order for it to become natural I need to use it more and then it will be automatic.
18/3/2014
This year we are going to be implementing google apps using a digital device in the classroom particularly a chrome book. Children will be given the opportunity to share and store their learning in their own learning portfolios which will be stored in an online space.
Today I worked alongside 2 other teachers and we helped the children log into their already set up email. This was very difficult for some children ( typing in issues, downloading google drive pop ups etc) and would of been a challenging task for one teacher alone. Most kids eventually signed in with success ( and support), and hopefully with plenty of practice they will be able to do this independently.
I don't know what the most successful way of getting this practice in is, perhaps starting with small groups ( capable children) and letting them become the experts to teach one another. Will need to advise children about signing out too when they are finished.
Goal: By the end of 2014, I am
successfully inquiring into my practice with using GAFE and how it impacts and
supports my children with their learning.
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