Saturday, 24 January 2015

RTC: Caring for students

25/01/15

A good summary of creativity which is important for understanding our Arts students; how often do other teachers say the daydreamers are lazy?  They are the writers and actors. The watchers who "don't participate" understand others, listen and often swoop in at the end with the best syntesis of everyone's ideas.

20/4/15
Have read MOE resources on grief in response to unexpected death, in response to a loss in our school community. It was very moving to share the funeral process with our wonderful kapa haka students during the first week of the school holidays.

http://www.core-ed.org/about/meet-our-team/janelle-riki

Whole school attended a talk by Janelle about raising Maori student achievement [all student achievement] and the focus was on getting to know students so they feel at home at school. That sounds easy but can be challenging, eg: when you have less than 40 hours  a year with a class of 30.
I liked the idea of greeting each student as they entered or building some eye-to eyes contact into the days interactions. It is a good thing at the atrt of the year to think about taking TIME to get to know people.
Drama activities: name games, pair share, story replay/mime/freeze frame. right up to Physical Theatre presentation of your life story.
Written activities [how can I do these on googlesite? Have booked 2 sessions with Cyclone for computer coaching]Role on the Wall about themselves

  1. 2. demonstrate commitment to promoting the well-being of all ākonga
    i. take all reasonable steps to provide and maintain a teaching and learning environment that is physically, socially, culturally and emotionally safe
    ii. acknowledge and respect the languages, heritages and cultures of all ākonga
    iii. comply with relevant regulatory and statutory requirement

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