Manaiakalani Refresh with Angela

Ako ~ Hanga ~ Tohatoha

Ako ~ Learn - What is quality teaching and learning ? (RAT) - Recognise Amplify Turbocharge

New Zealand Teaching Standards 2026

Effective Teaching Practice = Accelerated Learning

R.A.T.E - Recognise Amplify Turbocharge = Effective Practice

Knowing the success criteria is essential for student understanding as well as effective feedback. It answers the question: "What does success look like?" 

When students co-construct these, it directly activates their agency into the mahi.

Teachers need to know what is being learned and what constitutes success. There needs to be aclear difference between a Learning Outcome and an Activity

Digital technology is not just a tool!

Great Teaching + Digital Affordances = Acceleration

Visible Teaching Practices
Learning Objectives vs Activity - what is the difference?
Rewindable Learning

Hanga ~ Create 

Creative skills helps student become better problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. 

MaryAnn F. Kohl (2008) describes what creativity looks like in young children when she states, "Creativity focuses on the process of forming original ideas through exploration and discovery.

In children, creativity develops from their experiences with the process, rather than concern for the finished product. Creativity is not to be confused with talent, skill, or intelligence. Creativity is not about doing something better than others, it is about thinking, exploring, discovering, and imagining".

Children need to be creators, not just consumers. 

Tohatoha ~ Share

We don’t need to be psychologists to understand WHY we share.

We share to make connections with people.

Sharing requires an audience. And not just any old audience - an authentic audience

Most of us have probably experienced that occasion when we were sharing and the other person or people were clearly not interested! As teachers, one of the strangest things we have done over time is ask learners to write for an audience - when the only audience was a teacher with a red pen. Not an authentic audience.

Definition of Authentic Audience: People who choose to listen to you

There are two kinds of audience:

Compulsory - forced to listen to you

Eg when a child reads their work to the class (class has no choice), assembly (classes are forced to be there)

An authentic audience - one who chooses to listen to you

Eg has the remote in their hand, the power to click away quickly, one who pays to be there

Connected learners share.

Formative and Summative Assessment