Learner:Jasonta Poki               Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick    Date:24.08.15

Learning Area: Oral/sign Language  Speech making  English- Narrative assessment

Learning Observed

Jasonta used the research from an iExplore adventure about Maori moko to use for her speech. Jasonta is demonstrating her capabilities in Using Language, Symbols and text and relating to others when presenting a speech to an audience in her preferred mode of communication. She chose to voice her speech.  She connected with several sources of information. Due to the time constraints to meet the deadline for the habitat finals, Jasonta dictated her speech and collaborated with me to record it.  She discussed the introduction with me and chose to make a pukana face to hook her audience into watching. She is very good at doing this.Watch the video link. She was passionate about presenting her speech as the topic is really relevant to her. (Refer link to her written speech script).She is part of a kapahaka group supported by her caregiver which she attends every Friday night. The sequence of the information flowed well. She certainly knew her topic as she was able to dictate it to me. She made cue cards which she placed on a table in front of her. Moving the cards to the next one took time and she was looking down and lost eye contact with her audience.  She explained how mokos were created in the past and present. She finished by saying she had fun finding out about how to make a moko and thanked her audience for listening. Jasonta’s spoken English was slow and laboured and she stopped mid phrase and mid sentence at times demonstrating her ongoing difficulty with the patterning of language. This was off putting for her audience. The amount of content met the time specification but her delivery meant she was over the time limit. I would encourage her in the future If she wants to use spoken English she would need a lot of practice memorising the sentence patterns. I would like to see her signing a speech and an interpreter voicing for her.

Evidence of learning Link to Oral/sign English Language-Speech making assessment rubric Video of speech Jasonta’s Speech script

Next Learning Steps

Present her speech to her Friday night kapahaka group. Participate in OrmPS speech competition next year. Volunteer for MC roles and opportunities to introduce and thank visitors at our school. Be proactive in requesting an interpreter to voice for her signing.