Sunnynook Lead Teacher Day - Wednesday 31st March

Lead Teacher Day - 31st March 2010

Sunnynook Lead Teacher Day - Wednesday 31st March

Present: Peter Mulcahy, Anna Alison, Shelley Eaton, Vivienne Goldsmith, Rodger Darkens

Peter started by outlining his role as Director and cluster goals - also presented information from the survey.

Then group began looking at Lead Teacher job description, school goals, strategic plan & budget.

Have hosted Lead Teacher description and others on Google Documents not sure if this link will work.

The term "lively discussion" comes to mind for the day. Plenty of ideas and strategies floated and gradually we

honed them down to come up with ......

Lead Teacher description

Our syndicate goal

Some strategies for implementing the goals

Budgeting for this

Sunnynook Goals

Goal 3 from MOE contract:

increased capability of teachers and principals to use ICT to facilitate improvements in students’ learning and achievement

Our focus is the effective use of ICT to enhance student learning relating to literacy and reading.

Junior Team goals - 8 classes

Year 1 Children will be able to read known texts with appropriate levels of fluency and phrasing. This will promote greater comprehension of the text.

Year 2 Children will be able to retell main ideas of text to promote greater comprehension of the text. This will promote greater understanding of the material.

E-learning - Utilising GarageBand to facilitate recording and playback of read text and analysis of fluency and phrasing.

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.

Senior Team goals - 5 classes

Within a narrative focus students will be engaged to use a range of ICT tools to help understand the deeper features of their writing and their reading material. Evident through the students deeper analyse measured through PROBE

E-learning - using a variety of ICT tools to enhance student literacy