The 9 week programme has been designed to meet these four key goals within a professional learning group.
- Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools our young people use for learning
- Our teachers are supported to acquire fluency using the basic tools required for effective teaching, planning, assessment and professional learning
- Our teachers are supported to understand how digital technologies used effectively can have a significant impact on accelerating achievement outcomes
- Our teachers are supported to understand how the Manaiakalani pedagogy and kaupapa has been co-constructed over more than a decade to maximise the impact of effective teaching and learning in a digital learning environment.
Each week participants are asked to complete a blogpost to reflect on and share what they have learned that day. Have a look at our Tairawhiti Team's blogs below, follow our journey, and be sure to leave a comment!
My key learning this week was how good the Voice Typing tool in google docs is. So many practical uses for it within the classroom too, especially for engaging unmotivated writers. Top tip: Remember to change the language to English (New Zealand) so that it picks up our accent, but also so that you can say "full stop" at the end of the sentence instead of "period" as required in English US. 
