Tania Panepasa - Ōku Whakaaro Huritao

 Activity 3: Contribute of Teacher Inquiry Topics to my Community of Practice  Create a reflective entry where you critically reflect on how two potential and inspiring digital and/or collaborative learning related teacher inquiry topics would contribute to your Communities of Practice. Your reflection should be based on reflection model of choice. Nou te rourou, Noku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi                         With your food basket and my food basket, there will be ampl e I am really excited about this phase of our Mind Lab journey, as I am able to continue to research the benefits of  blended learning in kaiako pāngarau (maths) programmes. I will be using Jay and Johnson's 3 steps of reflection to structure my critical reflections Description:  The following are my two potential inquiry topics: I want to persevere with connecting whānau with seesaw and then teaching th...

Activity 2: Reflecting on changes in my future oriented teaching practice:   Create a reflective entry to critically reflect upon how you have positively changed your practice during your postgraduate journey. Your reflections should be based on a suitable reflective model of your choice. "good learning requires active engagement in the "whole game" The more people learn, the more they are capable of learning"  ( Bolstad, R., Gilbert, J., McDowall, S., Bull, A., Boyd, S., & Hipkins, R. 2012) Description: I am currently a Pou leader (syndicate leader at Te Kura Māori o Porirua) and also leading the kura pāngarau programme, prior to my appointment at TKMP I was a Pāngarau (Maths) facilitator, this is were my interest in blended learning began. My intent is to continue this journey, hence my motivation for wanting to complete the MindLab postgraduate programme. The following I would like to make changes to my practice and leadership by the end of the year, ...

Reflective practice: “unless teachers develop the practice of critical reflection, they stay trapped in unexamined judgements, interpretations, assumptions and expectations” (Linda Finlay) The above quote from Finlay reminds the importance of regulating  reflecting practice. As a means to transforming practice , as we tend to cling on to what we know. We also need to be engaging in critically dialogue, blogging, using twitter is a great way to do this. I have way to this. I have always believed that I am an active reflective practitioner. However after reading this article I have started to question if I am I deep critically or just merely a descriptive reflector . I tend to keep most of my reflections in my head and I need to be more discipline to regularly record online. As a team leader I need to also be mindful t hat beginning teachers tend to stuck to rules and procedures, critical reflection my not be a natural part of their practice. Therefore it needs...