Manaiakalani Inquiry : KPMG

Manaiakalani Inquiry : KPMG

On Monday the 20th of May we had our second collaborative meeting at the KPMG Office in Auckland.

The journey started with us sharing what had worked well for us, and what had not worked well. This still has a considerable impact on my thinking and my toolkit every time we start the morning like this.

The day progressed with us getting into groups and sharing our inquiry by playing Catalyst Game. 
This further created further self reflection and where to next with the toolkit. The dragon I am slying seems to get bigger and bigger.

We explored The-7-principles-of-learning and this further emphasized the importance of these aligning with the toolkit .

Thanks to KPMG for the venue and the opportunity to work in a corporate work environment

Manaiakalani : Prototype

Manaiakalani : Prototype

Following an eventful and hectic Term, managed to use the break time to start to sly that dragon that had been breathing a furious fire during the 3 day Manaiakalani Hui and the 1 day KPMG workshop.

Below is the first of many adjustments, refinements and tweaking of the prototype developed to solve the problem of low achievement in Mathematics with the Year 6 students.

The prototype has been used with the students when solving mathematical problems in context using the process of PPMS. The Problem, Plan, Method and Solution framework (see below), is the start of my inquiry. 

I have shared the framework not only with my students, but I have asked for feedback from my work colleague at school, my coach who is the Principal and one other person outside the organisation who is in a teaching role. There honest and professional feedback has posed further questions and adjustments to the framework.

More importantly I have used the framework with those students who have been identified has my target audience. Although its in its infancy stage of development, I will continue to seek feedback and clarification from those who will help and support me on this journey. I still have many unanswered questions, BUT I am starting to remove myself from that learning pit ... still crawling!  

Manaiakalani Inquiry : KPMG

Manaiakalani Inquiry : KPMG

On Monday the 25th of March we had our first collaborative meeting at the KPMG Office in Auckland.

The journey started with us sharing what had worked well for us, and what had not worked well.

The day progressed with us getting into groups and sharing our inquiry with others. The feedback was useful and it started another journey of questions and self reflection of our own inquiries.

We then shared our inquiries and we had to defend and explain our inquiries, with further scrutiny with the following questions:

Prototype of solution questions
What was the achievement challenge?
What was your purpose in designing this tool?
What were the gaps you identified in your prototype?
What is the point of difference with other tools already being used? Why yours?
How is this tool/approach/process going to have an impact on student achievement?
As a result of the feedback, you received today who else do you need in your team? What else do you need to do with your design?
What is the weak point or link in your design thinking process?

The feedback and the questions have made me go away and think about developing my prototype. There are more questions than answers at the moment and I feel like I am at the bottom of the learning pit. I will use the break to develop and draft my prototype so I can see what impact it will have on my students in Term 2. I am slying the dragon and it seems to be getting bigger and bigger every time we meet.

Thanks to KPMG for the venue and the opportunity to work in a corporate work environment