RPI: Sharing

 Our 9th and final session of RPI was all about sharing. More specifically, creating opportunities for students to create. It is on us as teachers to ensure students have these opportunities to share their learning to an authentic audience that has been created over their time online.

My time here has been precious as we have been gifted so much knowledge, activities and learnings we can pass on to our students and create for them. 

I can officially say I have completed the RPI course - YAY!

Memorable Gems:

Vocabulary tasks - I have thoroughly enjoyed the variety of ways vocabulary work has been pitched for our students from visual images of meanings to 3 levels of understanding for different words. This has given me so many more ideas I can set as vocabulary tasks each for my learners.

Create Tasks - Digital affordances have opened the door for endless create tasks our students could complete as a response to text. This gives the task meaning, and also gives us teachers insight to their reading abilities and comprehension of a text.

Types of Texts - Mirrors, windows and sliding doors. I still remember this session vividly as it really spoke to me to be mindful when selecting texts to ensure students are getting a variety of texts which open their minds to the wider world as well as seeing themselves reflected in the stories they read.

I could go on and on but I am just so grateful for this opportunity to take in RPI this year. I have learnt A LOT and have added so much more to my kete. Thank you to our facilitators Naomi, Kiri and Janet for encouraging us each week. Thank you!

Superhero - by Leki Jackson-Bourke

 Back in term 1our room 2 literacy class completed a whole class text called Superhero by Leki Jackson-Bourke. Our whole class loved the storyline and finding out it was actually based on true events that happened to Leki himself. This resonated with students in class and encourage them to participate in our dress up day where they got to dress up in their favourite superhero and explain what their powers were. Check out our movie we finally got around to sharing.

RPI: Creating

Today's session was a very hands on creating day filled short, sharp and longer create tasks that can be used to help embed ideas and capture readers interest from your students. 

Dorothy took us through the pedagogy and research behind WHY create is so imperative to our teaching and student learning. We are the gatekeepers! We need to make time and intentionally provide opportunities for create in our students' learning. 

Check out my slide deck for some of our create tasks.

Slide 1 - Creative illustrator and performer - We used one of the 2 prompts provided to come up with our own take on an image that would match the text. I created mine using Gemini as it is provided for our students in their Google suite. Other apps suggested were Craiyon and Canva. 

Slide 2 - 'Tighter & looser' session - This gave us ideas on how tight or loose we made our scaffolds/templates for the student create tasks. We were provided with many ideas of the types of templates, then had to create our own based on a text we were planning to use in the up coming weeks. My text was about Lizards in the L2 School Journing - June 2024. 

Slide 3 - One shot film - We got to create a book trailer to try and sell a text to our class. I used quick time to record mine on my laptop in one of our podcasting rooms with the blue background. I then used imovie to put in the blue screen and produce my promo video for Selina Tusitala Marsh's book - Mop Head.

Kiri also took us through some great examples of longer create units that have been used throughout the different clusters. These are great examples I'd really like to get to one day - especially if I get a chance to start novels with a group of higher readers in my class. 

One thing I will be implementing next week - Will be a short create task before we read the whole text - just like we did in todays lesson. And I will also make an effort to make time for a 'tight' create task for all my groups next week.