Learning @ Home
Welcome to our Learning @ Home site. You will find resources and examples here to help you navigate this new world of helping your students to learn from home as we are in Rāhui (lockdown).
Our most important resource is: Limit the Links
Remember this context is new to all New Zealand Educators. We are building the plane as we fly it.
Keep It Simple
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Establish expectations and routines for the teacher and students. The role of the teacher has changed, how are you going to change your teaching to meet this new role?
Take breaks - Ensure your workload allows both you and your students the time to build play, have social connections, and physical activity in the day. The quality and understanding of knowledge is more important than how much knowledge is acquired.
Continue relationships - Include a 30-minute check in the morning to connect with learners. Read them a book, ask some students to share what they did yesterday. Can you encourage your students to comment on another class or students blog or online file?
Comment on the work - whatever you expect your students to do needs to be seen by the teacher. The students will be looking to see if you are paying attention, and parents too, so make sure you comment on their work and on their blog. Encourage students to comment on each others blogs. Feedback also enables opportunities to stretch your students.
Determine how you will identify student success, could you quickly use a tool like Hapara Teacher Dashboard to see who is successful and managing their work? What do celebration assemblies, house points, certificates etc. look like when learning at home? How will you keep your learners motivated? Will there be a class competition where the class works together to get to a goal and reward?
What is the value add that you are contributing as a teacher. What does teaching online look like for you? How will you encourage students to read interesting everyday texts, that can be accessed independently and are engaging your students? What are you going to do to promote student lead discussions that promote critical thinking? Are these through commenting on a document, blog or small video conference? How will you facilitate collaborating and making choices in learning, creating and sharing?
Plan simple lessons with clear steps and small chunks, make their day shorter. It will also help keep your workload manageable. The learning environment needs to recognise the learners as the core participants and encourage their active engagement.
Use the tech to plan to the margins, think about how you will connect and support the students that are on the fringes. Create screencasts explaining lessons or instructions, utilise video and audio content to create rewindable opportunities, use appropriate fonts and colours.
Use the tech to create and share as part of the learning. Remember creating non digital is just as important - playdough, lego, painting, cooking, drawing, building
Accountability - how will you track learning? Can a student timetable also double as a tracking sheet?
Advice
Learn Create Share as a framework for distance learning
Cam Cameron
Professional Learning Facilitator in Kootuitui ki Papakura
Getting Started with Online Learning
Jamie Clark
Director of Digital Integration at Corpus Christi College
Virtual Resources 2020 Crowd Sourced
CORE Education
High School 2.0 - It’s time to prepare for the new normal
Claire Amos
Principal at Albany Senior High
I'm going to make it through this year if it kills me
Audrey Watters
Google Hangout Meet
Resources created by Kelsey Morgan - Uru Mānuka Education Programme LeaderSite Examples
Teachers giving it a go. These aren't necessarily 'best practice' but they are ideas.Sharing Examples
Teachers giving it a go. These aren't necessarily 'best practice' but they are ideas.St Francis of Assisi - ChCh
Year 0 - 2
A wonderful example of using blog hopping to share students work.
Hornby Primary - ChCh
Year 1
Teachers are sharing the learning with students on their class blog.