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Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Meeting with Nick Rate (CORE) - 17th May 2010
Present: Nick Rate (CORE), Peter Mulcahy (director), Ian Suckling (facilitator), Grant Murray, Bruce Julian, Enid Watson, Rodger Darkens
(Details of minutes will be available when minutes are posted on cluster wiki)
Key Points of the meeting
Peter welcomed Principals and recapped morning session
Milestone Reports
- 1st one we did a. b. c. & d. For the 2nd Milestone Report a.c & d - could have been done collaboratively - b needs to be done on school basis
Nick then discussed the purpose of the meeting
- Initially to touch base with Principals
- A guide to writing Milestone Report
- Talking about progress to date in schools
Nick’s role
- This is one of 2 face to face visits - ideally next visit spend time in schools (T3/4) - tie in to submission of final Milestone
- Milestone gets submitted to Nick on behalf of MOE - who reports back
- Ian’s contact details added
- Cluster network meeting - Peter fed back at Lead Teacher meeting - 2nd meeting mid September (essentially for Principals/Directors Lead - Teachers may find suitable/relevant)
- One of our schools should aim to host a Cluster Network meeting within the 3 years
- ICTPD online - Nick requires some feedback - some use of site - site is being updated. Found the content is very full and hard to navigate
Finance
Release days need to be examined to ensure teachers are making full use of time allocated
MOE will expect financial obligations to be met - schools required to track payments/commitments. Lead School will be audited.
On-line Modules
PD-Online Modules - Cyber Citizens Cyber Safety http://ictpd-digital-citizenship-and-cybersafety.wikispaces.com/
National Standards
Discussion on where are our schools are at? …..
Lot of discussion how to record anecdotal information - how do we show evidence?
Teachers using samples in National Standards book. Then move into Reading and then Writing
Meeting parental expectation - academic report will need to be revised
Concern about number of students who may be ranked below
Big increase in teacher workload - plain language report
Writing & Reading may be easier across schools
Mathematics may be harder
Management teams have been to courses. Starting to map assessment tools able to use.
Schools in campaign to give pros & cons re standards. Looking to involve Team Liaisons to provide information.
Some schools decided to make some banks of goals & indicators for teachers to use - lead teachers to NS workshops - cascade down to staff.
Has taken away from strategic planning and broad curriculum planning
Consistency & teacher judgement - 2 sessions of moderation within school - the EHASAS cluster activities gave us external moderation of writing samples - showed we have high degree of accuracy & co-relation of teachers to external moderation
Schoolmaster will be releasing a new version in May
Moderation was a collaborative effort within EHSAS - we do have had a turnover of teacher within the cluster
Do we see ICT PD playing a role in National Standards? (e.g. e-portfolios)
e-asTTle may play a role - portfolios require clarification of level and next step learning
Keeping books as record of learning - idea of Learning Journal - show student voice, reflective comments
Need to avoid doubling up of information - multi-media approach to data collected and presented. Web based storage of information - MLE (managed learning environment)
Learning @ Schools
Group gave feedback on attendance & views - positive, helpful, informative, chance to network, see and play with new equipment
Lead Teacher Days
Principals/facilatator attending with LT’s - thoughts feedback:
LT’s would like days to be more practical (recommend use of Interface magazine) - something they could take back to teams.
Improved feelings of confidence from LT’s from attendance - starting to lead meeting with ICT component. LT’s like the opportunity to discuss with colleagues.
Survey was a good idea - revealing a lot of helpful information
LT’s enjoyed strategic planning, have enjoyed time to explore different avenues and support provided. Teachers have worked on long term planning - sharing a syndicate goal - able to embed an ICT component - whole team out for a day
Lead Teachers selected for variety of reasons:
as being pedagogical leaders, had to have interest & wanting to improve IC skill, each team leader discussed strengths and selected via syndicates to give support, asked for expressions of interest from teams
Action Research
How much teachers are into the process? How getting teachers to record actions
Opted for team action research goal - teachers will add their own goals to team goal - have 2 action research goals by the end of T2 - recording on sound, key points transcribed
Twice a term syndicate leaders hold QLC within team - on going discussion - record points on file
Personal booklets - syndicate level goals established - Peter had focus on student achievement - later realised more on teacher achievement so focus has moved there. Reflections will be recorded in Appraisal booklets
Milestones
Links to evidence (Nick will need to be invited to join any wiki that is providing evidence)
Quotes - student/teacher voice
Video
Peter to go through and check school entries for duplication
Self Review Rubric
CORE survey for beginning of the year
Overall an informative and helpful session that helped to clarify some of our questions regarding the 1st Milestone. Appears that we could work more collaboratively on comments a., c. & d. with each school providing comments for b. Evidence.
Feeling that the Cluster is finding a sense of direction but we do realise these are our first steps on an on-going journey.
Looking forward to the QLC's when we come together as syndicates.
Sunnynook Syndicate Day - 14th May 2010
Our 1st Lead Syndicate Day with Ian Suckling (facilitator) - held at Sunnynook School.
Peter came in for brief talk
- regarding the goals at the beginning of the session and appraisal document - focus on teacher reflection.
- Discussed student survey - listening to the student voice - possible use of web monkey survey
- Discussion of what resources we had in our rooms and how would impact upon survey results
- Equipment - disc images throughout school - syndicate based - what is relevant to students?
- Sunnynook School Staff survey data - syndicate able to reference & analyse later
Ian then worked with syndicates discussions ranged across various topics:
How are we going to fit our ICT goals into the appraisal document?
What do we want to be appraised?
- Part of the syndicate goal
- Teacher progress
- Teacher reflection
How are we recording what is happening in our ICT journey?
- Hard copy diary
- Annotating weekly plans
- Digital diary using Word/Pages
- On-line journal
Progress/Planning of our Syndicate Goals
- Share experiences
- Share planning ideas
- Have the goals changed
- What progress have we made?
What implications do the ICT survey results have on our planning/approach?
- Training
- Expectations
- Confidence
How do we wish to use our release time?
- Training
- Class/school visit
- Research
- Collegial support
Cluster wiki - how we can make use of as resource?
- Ensure everyone is signed up and familiar with the wiki content
- Finding information and leaving posts
- Area for collaboration
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Arataki Lead Teacher Day - 30th April 2010
Our 2nd Lead Teacher Day - held at Sunnynook School.
Ian welcomed teachers to our 2nd Cluster Lead Teacher meeting. Reflected that time will be available to explore the wiki as common thread on last session feedback
Budget breakdown for school - details on Arataki wiki
Bd
Directors Report and Milestone Reports
· PD Report refer Milest
· LTs Report collaborative goals 1 & 2 (refer to Wiki for details)
· Paragraph for each goal a), b) c), d)
· Draft by May 15 to Peter - e-mail just the paragraphs through to Peter
ICT Strategic Plan (BECTA template)
Template explained - group appeared happy to accept this.
Survey analysis (individual schools - assessed data)
Surv
ICT Strategic Plan (individual schools spent time discussing BECTA document)
Sharing session
Guest Speaker (Term 2 / 3) - Call Back Day
The moment has gone to capture staff on a launch pad to the contract. Look to have an inspirational speaker for 2011. TOD before start of the year.
Guest speaker names to Peter before May 17th (Nick Rate’s visit).
Planning for QLC 15 June 3.15pm - 4.15
· Y1-2 Sunnynook (LT Angela-FHS, Steve-TR, Shelley-SPS)
· Y3-4 Forrest Hill (LT Christine-FHS, Caroline-TR, Vivienne-SPS)
· Y5-6 Target Road (LT Pip-FHS, Colleen-TR, Anna-SPS)
· Y7-8 WIS (LT Bernadette)
Process at QLC is :
1. Welcome
2. Share Goals
3. Wikispace
4. Sharing
Plan dates for 2010
Wiki website - Ian introduced some ideas for afternoon session
Discussion thread
Explore TKI site
Share e-mails
Register on mailing list for literacy-on-line
Accept R Jensen’s invite to join a community
Review (part of Milestone) and Leave
Saturday, April 24, 2010
KidPix
Sunnynook Middle Syndicate ICTPD on KidPix
Friday 23rd April, 2010
Preparing for session - learnt a few things about th
e KidPix tools, also saving a slideshow as a Quicktime
movie so that individual slides do not have to be included in the sli
deshow - comes as self
contained movie.
Before the KidPix session began - explained how to log
onto server
The day was busy - morning spent looking at the tool buttons and giving colleagues the opportunity to explore the features. All agreed that KidPix is a powerful programme, especially liked the templates that are provided.
Discussed how we would use with our students - some apprehension about how we keep ahead in terms of our knowledge........... just let the students go for it and allow them to become the teachers. Encouraged staff to keep working with KP and develop a few steps at a time.
In the afternoon teachers worked through what we covered on their own or with a partner. Vivienne took one group to look at using data projector.
Also looked at how individual slides can be incorporated into a SlideShow and briefly examined transitions & sounds.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Sunnynook Middle Syndicate ICTPD on KidPix
Friday 23rd April, 2010
Our first Middle Syndicate professional development day.
Our syndicate is using KidPix as a tool for illustration and recording of student stories.
Middle Team goals - 5 classes
Children will be able to create a personal short narrative and illustrate their text in the style of a sophisticated picture book. To give personal expression and voice to their narrative.
E-learning - Children will be able to use KidPix to create a visual representation of a personal narrative.
Stories will be published in KidPix using text and graphic tools.
Utilising the record functions available in KidPix to read their narrative aloud and record their text.
Assessment will be through reading and illustration success criteria and rubrics.
Self and peer assessment carried out through reading of text and assessment of accompanying illustration to the text provided.
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Created a short video in KidPix on the various functions available also printed out a book of the Slideshow.
Saved as QuickTime movie
Took staff through the KidPix tools using Slideshow & book as guide. We often stopped to play with the tools & gave staff opportunity to try out features.
Discovered new feature which was the template tool.
Covered a lot in the morning session and teachers appeared more comfortable using the tools.
The test will be when they begin using KidPix with their classes ans how they cope with students at different levels.
My advice is to sit back and let the students go for it. We can use some of our Senior students as ICT helpers for teachers who are a bit anxious.
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