Maui's Barb a blog by Sara Plunkett.

       Post Study Self Portrait July 2017 What is so? The MindLab course has blown my mind. In many ways it has been a struggle. An overload of new content, new ideas and applications that I have not always wanted to engage with. However I have taken away many positives. My learning around leadership has already been beneficial to my position as a Head of the Arts Faculty. The way I look at the changing landscape of learning in the 21st century has changed, I am no longer reluctant but have moved into using digital modes of learning as tools to improve practice and experience for my students. I have tried out new things in the classroom, some will stick some will be modified. Visual Art Research standards digitally presented (Video unit for Level 1 and 2 and a digital catalog for level 3) – Makes digital moderation easy. Use of Seesaw blog for year 7/8 junior art students. – A digital record that can be shared with their classroom teacher and a dig...

My Interdisciplinary Connections: I am a conceptually trained visual arts teacher. In my undergraduate degree I specialised in sculpture (object based and installation). Since then I have been painting and drawing within my own art practice. I work as a visual arts teacher years 7 – 13 and have in the past taught year 9 Maori and English, relieved in Graphics and textiles and every year offer a Level 1 kapa haka dance standard to interested students. Through my teaching I have developed a passion for Te Reo and tikanga Maori, and have sought to integrate this learning into my visual art teaching. (Freeman & Mathison, 1997) Intradisciplinary or integrated: I have developed a year 9 Toi Ataata (Maori visual arts unit) based on the design and make of a miniature kakahu that utilises an interdisciplinary approach by combining art skills and content from painting, printmaking, design, sculpture and technology with a kaupapa Maori approach. This unit of work has...