Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua: ‘I walk backwards into the future with my eyes fixed on my past’.

2019 Inquiry Stocktake

The year year has started and I am now getting inquiry for 2020 started. I was not able to attend the first PLG for our Manaiakalani CoL team but have had the opportunity to catch up with Fiona afterwards. 

My first blog post for this year is a stocktake of last year's inquiry. Being a first year CoL teacher last year, there were a lot of new learning, challenges and great opportunities to network with other CoL teachers and the Manaiakalani team. As Mr Burt always says "We are a whanau in the Manaiakalani cluster". I really tautoko this. 

You will be able to see in my stocktake, the aspects of inquiry, challenges and ways to move forward for myself as a CoL teacher within Glenbrae School. 

This year my inquiry focus is shifting to another area of the curriculum but I will still be maintaining what I focussed on in 2019. 

My 2020 inquiry will be in a post soon to come. 

Kia Kaha Mrs Tofa!

Analysing Writing Achievement from 2017

What are factors which affect the writing of students? What accelerates writing achievements? What hinders writing achievements? Below is an analysis I filled out for Writing for the year 2017. I had identified in 2017 that one of the factors which hinders the writing achievement of students is the the reluctance of boys to write. This is one of the rationale for why I have a group which consists of mainly boys. 

Collaboration between the students and teachers is vital in the learning of students in any curriculum area. As we are a Manaiakalani school we are able to use technology to collaborate even when out of the classroom. One of my foci will be the ongoing giving of feedback and feedforward not only for myself but also for the students to each other.