Main points from today's meetings:
Manaiakalani
- Cybersmart Wall: area in class rooms to promote quality blog posts/comments, cybersmart. I will need to follow this up. Get students to compete these posters. Share with staff.
- Visible Professional blogs- Te Hiku. It was decided that it will be an expectation for lead teachers to have their blog links on the Te Hiku site.
- Tui Mai tui atu: Pilot teachers from the previous year will be encouraged to share blogs with another classroom within our cluster.
- T Shaped learning- this was brought up again today, it may be something that we want to look into as we reflect on our reading practice (as this came through in our data). I wonder if this may be something that we look at with Rhona?
T Shaped Literacy Slides
Kahui Ako
- I need to reintroduce blogging time at staff meetings again to encourage more reflection on professional blogs.
- Story Hui- some schools are using this as a part of their Inquiry. I think the way we use coaching conversations is similar to this and I am feeling appreciative that we have acquired these skills from Susan.
We discussed how our Inquiries are working in our school. I reported back on how our Inquiry sat well under the the student agency results. I think the 1:1 meeting with staff members went well and I will set another day for Term 4. The focus will be on checking, set goals with teachers on how they can gather evidence as to weather they have made a difference.
Writing was discussed again as this is a constant issue. How can Inquiries focus on writing in a new and innovative way as this is something that we are constantly faced with?
I think the 1-1 sessions you had with staff were very valuable. It helped to 'refocus' everyone around our Teaching as Inquiry.The session on Friday for Principals and within school leads was quite good to get feedback from everyone on the last TOD. I think the idea to have our schools working together in year groups is a great idea.
ReplyDeleteMeg, glad to hear you found value in the day. I am also interested in your question around writing, and particularly curious about how blogging contributes to this. I have to say, I'm inspired by your blog - love the simplicity and clarity of your layout and the way you write. I'm heading off to DFI this week so great to have a good model to use. : )
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