After attending a toolkit on Gemini Gems run by Matt Goodwin I decided that introducing this in my learning time this might spark another l...

Once again with 'create' in mind I planned my Inquiry unit on Dinosaurs with these activities in mind. Pretty much I started at the ...

Using texts suggested in the Refreshed English Curriculum for Year 7-8 this term has allowed me to experiment with aligning my learning in s...

As I have said before I am on a mission this year to both successfully implement structured literacy and to keep the create opportunities al...

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Once again I'm tapping back to Jason Borland's thinking in our 2015 Manaiakalani Innovative Teacher's PLG where he stated that ...

Click here   to see how I align my inquiry with the Manaiakalani framework . “Recognising and spreading sophisticated pedagogical practice a...

This year I want to find out if  a focus on spelling conventions foster an environment where word consciousness strengthens connections to t...

This week the words I heard in our class speech competition completely stopped me in my tracks. Standing in front of an audience of their pe...

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Last term I attended the Creating Digital Escape Rooms with Donna Yates toolkit. Donna introduced us to a collection of published digital es...

Giving my students and authentic purpose to carry out a statistical inquiry strengthens their connections to the task as a whole. This year ...

'Will a focus on Reading for Enjoyment increase student self efficacy and capability in Reading?' This is the question that is guidi...

Last week during my weekly catch up with our student leaders, we discussed ways we can inspire others to read for enjoyment. After talking t...

How another lockdown period may impact the learners in your focus group?  Will you need to make any changes to your Inquiry? How might your ...

With the move to Alert Level 4 last week my teacher inquiry pretty much came to an immediate standstill. The hardest part being for me to ge...

During the holiday break I took some time to reflect on my teacher inquiry so far. Wanting to build on the foundations of what I have in pla...

Today I worked with my focus students to practise using our LS2 oral language framework in context. This is the process we followed: Write a...

Click here   to see how I align my inquiry with the Manaiakalani framework . “Recognising and spreading sophisticated pedagogical ...