NZATE Workshop Resources

“Just what I need, just in time”: how the English, Literacy and ESOL

Online websites can support your planning for the NZ Curriculum

Karen [email protected]

English Onlinehttp://englishonline.tki.org.nz

Karen Melhuish (2009) Team Leader: Online Communities. Learning Media [email protected]

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mailto:[email protected]

http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/


Karen Melhuish, Team Leader: Online Communities & English Online Facilitator

I am the facilitator of English Online and the Team Leader: Online Professional Communities at Learning Media, working closely with the English community and the Ministry of Education. I specialise in AtoL/Literacy/English teaching and professional development at Years 7-13. I contribute regularly to the NZATE Journal ‘English in Aotearoa’, as well as developing English resources and advising on a range of English national/international projects. I was a researcher for ‘INSTEP Consolidation Phase: Online Communities of Practice’ (2008) and can be found twittering away in various online social networks.

The three sites – English, Literacy and ESOL Online – were launched in February 2009. The sites seek to build on the legacy of their previous versions and support teachers to actively plan to support our students while giving effect to the new curriculum. But how much time have you had to explore the sites, or consider, ‘What’s in them for me?’

This session will clarify purpose, vision and scope of the sites, and model / share practical ways to use the sites’ resources to support your lesson/unit planning and unpack key aspects of the NZC from a pragmatic point of view.

Aimed at : any primary / secondary teacher / HoD interested in using the websites and in critiquing their planning in relation to the NZC.

Key Ideas:- to clarify purpose, vision and scope of English-Literacy-ESOL Online- to understand how the sites’ resources can support teacher

planning.

Success criteria: What will this look like? How will we know when been successful here?eg To recognise how the website is supporting teachers as they give effect to the

curriculum To use key ideas from the site/Curriculum to critique a current teaching unit.


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Teaching as Inquiry: What do these steps in the inquiry cycle mean to you?


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Focusing Inquiry Learning Inquiry

Teaching Inquiry


Focusing Inquiry Teaching Inquiry Learning Inquiry

What do my students need to learn?

What do I need to know and do?

What is the impact of the teaching and learning?

Content PedagogyIn our own words…


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This is the key feature of the Home page of English/ Literacy / ESOL online.

http://englishonline.tki.org.nz





Template: Upload a Teaching and Learning Sequence/Unit

It may be useful for you to understand how sequences/units are structured before you complete this template. For examples, please refer to current sequences/units on Literacy/English/ESOL Online.

Please complete the template below. * indicates required information

1. OVERVIEW

*Title:

*Author(s) (name/institution):

*Year level(s):

*One sentence describing the context and learning intentions of the sequence/unit:


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Focusing Inquiry

2. WHAT DO STUDENTS NEED TO LEARN?

Indicate how the unit relates to the New Zealand Curriculum (2007)

*Principles:

*Values:

*Key competencies:

*Learning area(s):

*Curriculum levels:

Key links to support assessment/information gathering

*Achievement Objectives:

*Literacy - National Standards/LLP [Years 1-10:

ESOL - ELLPs:

NCEA:


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What are my students’ current strengths and learning needs? Briefly explain how teachers might find out the strengths/needs that need to be addressed in this sequence/unit.

Summary: The intended learning outcome(s)/key concept(s) in this sequence/unit is/are:


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Teaching Inquiry

3. WHAT DO I NEED TO KNOW AND DO?

Intro:

(We recommend using the standard intro: Select from and adapt the teaching and learning tasks below to meet your students’ identified learning needs. You could use the ‘learning needs’ questions to help you adapt the sequence to these needs. Some students may need scaffolding through multiple opportunities for using the language.)

1. *Learning Task 1: (one phrase to define the focus)2. *Expected time frame: (number of lessons)3. *This task involves…(one sentence)

Dimension of effective practice

Learning tasks/activities

What the teacher might notice

*Identify which aspect(s) are relevant

*Describe what the teachers and students will be doing and learning.

*Suggest key question(s) that teachers might ask themselves.


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http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/Media/Files/The-dimensions-of-effective-practice

http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/Media/Files/The-dimensions-of-effective-practice

Learning Inquiry

4. WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF THE TEACHING AND LEARNING?Teachers should use a range of assessment processes to investigate the success of the teaching.

*How will the learning be assessed? [there may be more than one way]

*How can the next steps for learning be shared?

*How might this inform your future teaching?

Image sources: Focusing Inquiry: www.growabrain.typepad.comTeaching Inquiry: www.blog.dyknow.comLearning inquiry: www.duckscrossing.org


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http://www.duckscrossing.org/

http://www.blog.dyknow.com/

http://www.growabrain.typepad.com/

Reflection: 3-2-1-Out

Key ideas: to clarify purpose, vision and scope of English-Literacy-ESOL Online to understand how the sites’ resources can support teacher planning.

3 things you learned about how English/Literacy/ESOL Online can help you with your planning.

2 ‘next steps’ to take back to your school.

1 task that you will do for yourself


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Have you read the July newsletter yet? Check it out – link from the English-Literacy-ESOL home pages…


http://englishonline.tki.org.nz


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Home Page



http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/What-do-you-need-to-know-and-do/English-content-knowledge


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Content: English




http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/What-do-you-need-to-know-and-do/Knowledge-of-effective-pedagogy


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Pedagogy : how to teach




http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/Community


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Community page


http://englishonline.tki.org.nz/English-Online/Community