Online Teaching and Learning

Kia ora everyone

Well, week two down of COVID-19 Lockdown and my students in 9R are getting used to joining our google meets everyday and staying in touch with me and each other while we continue our SST learning. When they want a quick conversation they will make contact by google hangout otherwise I see them all in the meets. This week we have also been joined by 9K so that was great sharing with that awesome group of students. Here are a couple of our classes captured on screen shot.

 Above is a lesson run by Kerry Boyd-Preece our Manaiakalani facilitator in school, she is working with the students on their cybersmart footprints.
We are so fortunate to have her expertise and support in our classes.

To the left is Vaughan and Whaea Wai who is her teacher aid and who joins our classes every day.

9R Students Term 1

Here are the awesome students of 9R Social Students in Term 1.

Preparations during COVID-19 lockdown

Kia ora
What interesting times we are living in at the moment. This is my first Blog post for 2020 which is  long overdue.During the first two weeks of the lockdown I got onto my classsroom website and re-wrote all of the learning resources to make it easier for my Year 9R students to work independantly from home when school starts again on April 15th. It was quite a task, but very rewarding. I also added 3 short screencastify video clips to help talk my students through their work.
Here is the first video clip created at home. 👀