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The Manaiakalani Programme

“How can we come together and integrate our expertise and our knowledge to address significant problems?”

From Graeme Aitken

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Resilient Students are those who come from the bottom socio-economic quartile but who’s ability to perform at or above level 3 goes up over 2 years.

Students who perform at Level 3 begin to demonstrate the ability to construct the meaning of a text and form a detailed understanding from multiple independent pieces of information when reading, can work with proportional relationships and engage in basic interpretation and reasoning when solving mathematics problems; and they can handle unfamiliar topics in science.

Resilience is therefore intended to capture the capacity of an individual to gain the set of skills and competencies that are essential to fully participate in society and have good chances to succeed in the labour market.

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What do we need most in Term 3?

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Deliver the curriculum

Really Well

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Make sure its

visible

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Essential Components

  • Motivation
  • Expectations: -the language of success v local cheechee
  • Growing & re-visiting vocab
  • Mileage; listening, speaking, reading, writing
  • Work checking/conferencing/finishing
  • Work filing
  • Work publishing

Group Cycle Rate:

  • Instructional group 2 x week minimum
  • Work finishing/filing weekly
  • Publishing weekly [if appropriate]

Our Biggest Deal

  • Vocabulary development
  • The right mileage

Language

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The language of success v local cheechee

  • Motivation
  • Expectations
  • Which language do we speak when it matters most?
  • Remember the cultural origins
  • How do we grow/revisit/maintain language & concepts
  • Link the language of success to the known environment
  • Make children speak to the known environment
  • Provide them with a formula or template
  • Sing my song
  • Write really interesting stuff with a real world purpose

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Mileage; listening, speaking, reading, writing

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Planning Stuff

Purpose:

  • Shows current levels
  • Shows expectations
  • Sets goals
  • Shows big ideas or concepts that need to be taught to reach goals.

Purpose:

  • Guides teaching interactions
  • Informs next learning steps

Purpose:

  • Where students and whanau can access learning.
  • Scaffolds
  • Provides agency
  • Learning Steps broken down

Long Term Planning

Includes:

  • Groups and Names
  • Current level/stage
  • Expectation
  • Goal for 5 weeks/Term/6 months
  • Next learning Steps

Includes:

  • Teaching strategies
  • Questions/Vocab/Problems
  • Reflections/evaluation
  • Specific student focus*

Includes:

  • WALTS
  • Text/Content
  • Learning Activity
  • Scaffolds/models/instructions*

Daily Planning

Lesson/Weekly Planning

* where appropriate

5 or 10 week

week/text/lesson sequence

on site for the week+

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Mileage; listening, speaking, reading, writing

  • # iterations of high value activities
  • Real world context
  • Check in points/conferencing/direct instruction
  • 2 x week holy grail minimum
  • Completion
  • Publishing
  • Visibility

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IMPACT ON READING - MANAIAKALANI

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IMPACT ON WRITING - MANAIAKALANI

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BLOGGING FREQUENCY - IMPACT

Low frequency = 1 – 5 posts [~1 post per week]

Medium frequency = 6 – 10 posts [~1.5 – 2.0 posts per week]

High frequency = 11+ posts [~2.0+ posts per week]

FREQUENCY

No. of students

Mean (M) Gain in PAT Reading

LOW

145

-4.78

MEDIUM

82

5.60

HIGH

121

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FREQUENCY

No. of students

Mean (M) Gain in E-asTTle Writing

LOW

126

-62.58

MEDIUM

57

-21.44

HIGH

80

45.04

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2 x + a week

the Holy Grail

  • completion/sharing/posting
  • Deliberate Acts of Teaching
  • conferencing/checking in/ff
  • commenting/reflecting