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Gemma Bradburn
One Tree Point School
Target group: Year 5-6
PROJECT SUMMARY
PROJECT SUMMARY
This project addresses an issue that will be familiar to many teachers in a hybrid world - how to ensure all participants are engaged to the extent that they can be, and in particular, how to increase the level of home-school support for learners.
The key ‘turning point’ noted by Gemma in her report is when she shifted from making her online engagements an ‘extra’ (or in addition to the regular class work) and instead, made this the focus of her classroom programme. The examples of the film club and market day provide excellent illustrations of how this occurred, and the use of the school website for sharing with parents/whānau provides a really useful reminder of how important the building and sustaining of effective home-school partnerships is to the learning process.
MY PROBLEM
MY PROBLEM
There is a disconnect between whānau understanding of how we learn based on their own schooling experiences and expectations and current pedagogy.
Some whānau are not interfacing with our digital platforms because they have not had experience with it.
Some whānau have difficulty using digital tools.
MY HUNCH
MY HUNCH
We can increase home-school partnerships and engagement by:
Empowering akonga to create resources that shares what they are learning and how they learn.
Seeking feedback from whānau about their experiences engaging in our school; then acting on this feedback.
Sharing resources, learning and planning on our class website to flip our classrooms and to enable whānau to support their children.
Hybrid Learning Video.mp4Initial Hunch Video
Video Gemma Bradburn _ 8_11_2022 2_58_43 PM.mp4Progress report #1
Video Gemma Bradburn _ 9_1_2022 12_11_47 PM.mp4Progress Report #2
WHAT I DID
WHAT I DID
I created an area on the school website with information and examples of student work for parents and whānau to access.
I held parent focus groups - receiving feedback on a Google site/digital workbook about what is needed to make it more accessible, whānau friendly.
I also held student focus groups and helped them create videos of how we learn to share with parents.
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