RPI 9: Agenda - Sharing Reading

Wow! We have reached the end of our RPI programme, what a journey of learning this year has been, all around reading. We looked at sharing today and one aspect of this was whānau involvement. This in our classroom reading programme is quite absent, something I look forward to changing and introducing with my class. I enjoyed seeing others' ideas about how we can involve whānau, and have taken note of some amazing ideas. I enjoyed seeing and hearing everyone's ideas about sharing to connect home and school. This is truly so valuable to involve whānau, not only in what their tamariki are reading at school, but in ways they can learn together and help their tamariki on their learning journey. 

Going through the goals set at the beginning of the RPI got me thinking about how the RPI has ticked all the boxes across the board. I don't feel like we weren’t ever supported to achieve any of these and its amazing. The RPI has been challenging at times but the rewards are far more in return. I’m truly grateful I got to experience and be a part of this programme. I have begun to incorporate the pillars of practice in my programme and will continue to, plan to with the new coming school year.

RPI 8: Agenda - Create in Reading

 What a creative day we had today! I really enjoyed our section on using create to show our learning. It highlighted for me that we can deliberately have an element of create in each response to text. It can fit in anywhere in our reading programme and the possibilities to create are endless. We can have two places create can fit. Either in our routine opportunities or planned modules, units or concepts. Below we can see where these fit:

I loved that we had a chance to try many create tasks and could see what would fit in with our students. Plus, to see the many different types of create activities expanded my mind. We also shared into a sheet document endless amazing create ideas which is now a resource I will continue to refer to. The way we share together in RPI has had a huge positive effect on my teaching, its been a challenge too, its made me really look at what I do as a teacher and how I can become even better for my students. Sometimes change is hard, but if you make it the new normal, it will always only have positive effects on me and my classroom. I'm excited to offer more creating opportunities in my classroom!