Session 3 and 4

 

You know what I came to a realisation that I think I am targeting too much for my Masters programme. when I reflect back on the 3 questions I have chosen I believe its too much for me to research about let alone implement with my group of students. 

Flipped learning approaches is where there needs to be a bigger focus in delivery. Now on the third iteration we looked at vocabulary and phrases that the students needs to find meanings to or in this case discuss the meanings with their peers, this acted as the flipped task the students needed to complete before looking at the introduction of their speeches. Now I found that there was no connection between the flipped task and the teacher task which was fairly overlooked in my mind. Now even though this was the case it was very interested to see the student discuss these terms and phrases I deliberately chose from the their speeches. I watched and observed and there was some relevant information being shared and some information that was way off in terms of meaning. This is expected based on the data I collected where students noted that they either understood some information or just memorised the speeches. 

Fourth iteration they participated in a Gagana Samoa Assessment which I created myself. I did this because I wanted to test them in the beginning of our cycles and than look to assess them again towards the end. Now this will determine whether their would be academic progress in between with understanding Gagana Samoa content. I have yet to still look at their assessments and their completed flipped tasks. 

I checked the teacher activity the students did which was to find differences and similarities in the introduction only of their speeches, they Identified the key areas of this introduction.