It was good to catch up with my principal today, Sonia Johnston. We had a good conversation about where I am at with my project, and we shared some good thoughts and ideas to think about. These were the take always I couldn't stop thinking about after our conversation.
- We spoke about teaching for transfer and the importance of this Bilingual pedagogy. There was a discussion she had with a high school teacher who has an inquiry relating to student's with strong Gagana Samoa but lacking the competence in the English level especially for the NCEA LEVEL.
- This brought about the connections that teachers need to support our senior students with in terms of teaching identifying this transfer of skills, when and how but also getting the students to make these connections with using their skills in their first language and second language if that makes sense lol
- We talked about teaching for transfer being a longed researched pedagogy however we feel that its the skill of the teacher to support students with making this transfer happen/the connection happen in Gagana Samoa and in English.
- Because research states the the skills are transferrable as stated by (Cummins, 2008, McCaffery, 2015) They call this a two way transfer.
The sessions I have done already, has there been any connection made or transfer made amongst or between students?
how do you know? can they use it through a variety of inputs??? These are my thoughts so far i dont know if these thoughts connect though.
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