Session 8 and 9 was a continuation of the last session. This week went kind of different because there were some students away on a sports trip. Now this didn't stop me from carrying on with the students I did have. I only the girls first which meant that when the boys come back I will have to repeat the same flipped task and teacher task because the students dont have access at home to complete the flipped task.
Throughout the start of this project students would do the flipped task in the session before teacher provides the actual teacher task. It was very pleasing to see the students engage in talanoa about the Gagana Samoa Phrases. English was allowed to be used as well in these sessions to promoted trans-languaging. The students reading the phrases in Gagana Samoa and when explaining they would use English. a few students could do both.
the writing output for this activity was really good. I enjoyed reading their responses in Gagana Samoa this tells me that they are soaking up the context in our sessions each week. The tasks that I created definitely reassures me the importance of activating prior knowledge and giving opportunities for students to talanoa about the language being used.
A lot of the phrases we metaphoric and target vocabulary were explored with they students. I noticed students were so good at code switching which means they were switching back and forth when explaining their thinking.
Where to from here? Well next steps will be to use my teaching skills in order to actually identify how this transfer is happening when is it actually happen.
Going to pick a different topic and use this topic to deliver the content for the last 6 sessions going in to term 4. I might use a dual language book if I can find one that suits the year 7&8 level.
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