Reflective practice

  Theory: Reflective Practice by Dr Arezou Zalipour, June 2015
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I shared this reading on 9/3/16

This is a simple model to base our reflections on. This framework came from the reading and is a good basis to ensure that our reflections are evidence based. The part that is missing is "now what"

What evidence formed the basis of this? This model makes that very clear.

How can we "create not consume"in Mathematics/E-learning?

I have been reflecting on our use of ICT/E-learning in Room 10 and really like the saying "Create don't just consume"  to help me review whether the activity I was thinking of doing was going to extend and provide opportunities for creation.
I was noticing that within the subject of Mathematics so much of the activities/games practising Basic Facts were consume activities. Games that were already created by someone else where the children just answered questions. as challlenging and engaging as they were I wanted richer tasks.

I spent some time thinking about this and deciding how we could create numeracy content for others.
I had a template for a Powerpoint "Who wants to be a Millionaire Game"

I shared it with the class and we decided we would make a basic facts game for Room 9. We had been practising writing word problems so the children wrote their own word problem and 4 possible answers.
They added these to the presentation and we trialled it.
You can not share powerpoint so we tried moving it to Google Drive and converting it to Google Slides. When we did this all the transitions/sounds disappeared which were so important. So I explored lots of ways we could convert into a movie but keep the effects.
finally I  came across Author Stream which allows you to upload a presentation and then it gives you the HTML code so I could embed it into the Room 10 blog so the children could share it.
They loved creating this and having an authentic audience. A very worthwhile activity.

Basic facts who wants to be a millionaire Room 10

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E-asTTle Problems

One of my tasks as Assessment leader is to prepare the E-AsTtle assessments in Term 2 and 4.

One of the difficulties is that the ministry who manages AsTtle do not recognise Year )'s so these children can not be uploaded from ETAP to E-AsTle. I have problem solved alot and read on forums that the only way this can be rectified is by manually entering these children as Year 1's.

Another problem I have is that a few children have been entered on ETAP with different names as on ENROL. This causes errors when uploading as if these are not the same it will not export correctly.

One child we had did not fit all 7 middle names onto ETAP but all those names were on ENROL so it would not match. I had to get Kerry to go into ENROL and remove one name so that it would work.

ETAP help desk were very helpful with getting me to overcome these issues.

12 - Use critical inquiry and problem solving effectively in their professional practice.

12 - Use critical inquiry and problem solving effectively in their professional practice.