Anne Sinclair

LEARNING CULTURE WITH IN-CLASS SUPPORT Cultural Competence (ability to understand and to use the learner’s culture/s as a building block to learn and teach) Cultural Responsiveness (changing practices to engage all students in their learning and make the classroom a positive learning place for all students) There is a shared vision for improving ākonga learning that drives decision-making and cycles of continuous improvement. There is a continual reflection on how things are going and what you can both do to make it better both teaching and learning. What do we need to do next? Who is learning? Who is not? What are we doing about it? What is it we expect teachers/ students to learn? What is the pedagogy of a teacher that helps students learn? What instructional practices help students learn? WHAT IS CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE PRACTICE Cultural relationships for   responsive pedagogy  

  Pā harakeke How will you nurture your pā harakeke. Legacy is all about progress, not perfection. Experimenting, Exploring, Sharing, Communicating “Be” conversations: About the individual’s resourcefulness, confidence, and the ability to stay calm, open, and empathetic in any situation. “Relate” conversations: About relationships with other people, trust-building, sharing a difficult message, collaborating, and dealing with conflict. “Inspire” conversations: About direction, change, and purpose, including how to proactively respond to situations of uncertainty. “Think” conversations: About solving problems in a new way, fostering creativity and innovation, and seeking 

                                 PROVOCATION FOR REFLECTION  What does this mean for us as teachers but also as leaders of learning? Have we made any changes to our pedagogy and confronted our practice honestly recently? How can we impact the teachers we work with to develop their practice? What are the areas we need to work on to effect change for our teachers? If we are a: Do we think critically by being able to? contrast, compare, criticise, associate, see alternatives, critically examine, wonder, ponder, confront our blind spots, question critically, restate, debate multiple perspectives, counter - debate, provide anti examples, self-question, listen and hear, elaborate, interrogate, rebuild, devil’s advocate, look at different points of view?

                      CREATIVITY IN EDUCATION CREATIVITY isn’t what drives the storytelling. Rather, storytelling drives creativity. Students should share their process not just their product . https://spencerauthor.com/pixar-creative-collaboration Use an increasing repertoire of teaching strategies, approaches, learning activities, technologies and assessment for learning strategies and modify these in response to the needs of individuals and groups of learners. Creativity builds cognitive complexity and is a highly developed cognitive process European Journal of Education 49(3) Facebook What would Beethoven’s FB page look like? How would Picasso’s design his FB page?

                                           MANAIAKALANI CLASS ON AIR THE SITE Each episode includes: The teaching plan The learning experience The actual teaching session being filmed Learner generated content Teacher reflection Student Blog

   LOCKDOWN - IMPLICATIONS - COMPLICATIONS PERMUTATIONS Lockdown - noho rahui Preparing learners for an uncertain future Thinking like a scientist is more important than simply knowing specific formulae or procedures; or that thinking like a historian, i.e. understanding how the narrative of society has emerged, developed, advanced, and sometimes unraveled when the context changed, goes well beyond remembering dates, names, and places. Provocation: A careful balance between a ‘negotiated’ and a 'designed curriculum' Twenty-first-century curricula need to be characterized by: rigor (building what is being taught on a high level of cognitive demand) focus (aiming at conceptual understanding by prioritizing depth over breadth of content) coherence (sequencing instruction based on a scientific understanding of learning progressions and human development).  true to the disciplines, while aiming at interdisciplinary learning and