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**Cluster Call Back Day - April** PMI - Principals and Lead Teachers Keynote - exceptional at thinking about pedagogy Jo's session - practical and focussed on learning Allanah - a taste of titbits that teachers can use immediately Allanah's workshop-how she uses blogs, wikis and skype in the classroom Allanah's basic facts wiki Allanah's session - lots of ideas and also able to pat ourselves on the back for things we are doing well Practical reasons for using ipods Catch phrase: Be prepared to go with the moment' New links to sites || Would have liked a workshop style day Waiting while the technology is adjusted Lack of wireless in hall Didn't have a clear understanding of whole group discussion on blogging, might have been better if it was done in groups then shared back || Allanah had some interesting sites I have used and shared already Using plumbing gadgets as a reading / writing tool Importance of professional dialogue to lead direction of learning in a school Embed instead of link New thoughts and ideas around cyber safety High trust Fast changing Allanah - lots of practical ideas, practical ways and differences in learning ||
 * Plus || Minus || Interesting ||
 * Challenging keynote - provocative questions asked, discussed but left open-ended

Teacher Feedback 2. Student blogging- we need to communicate our student blogging within and beyond school. We need to tell each other when kids blog so we teachers can all comment. If kids post we must comment. 3. Class blogs- Keep it new to keep interest. || I've responded back to two class blogs and an e-portfolio that I've been made aware of || Just teacher feedback at this stage. || NETIQUETTE - continually looking at this with students. || Netiquette as a team - discussed and making time and looking for opportunities to bring this up. Blogging with other classes in our school. || Students owning their learning.and teaching each other new skills || Iphone to Blog Anchoring to wiki New skills to extend writing target 2012 Synonym use while accessing spell checker Students and staff reflective practices for and of learning further developed <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sustaining ICT learning <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">ICT task template <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Paper to e- paper || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Children and I working on taking photo's and sending to Blog <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Lots of one on one learning conversations -exploring other words for .....? <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Good writing models explored and used to help extend writing. Audience an important component. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Capable students of ICT working alongside and developing skills of other students. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Inquiry area involves students setting together success criteria. || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Students better understanding of the learning process. Students involved in collaborative contributing to big questions e.g. What does success look like? to you. Y Chart + What does learning look like, sound like and feel like at Te Kura Tahaaroa. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Students confidence about their learning paths (next steps) Where to now?, Failure forward. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Focus on learning process not what can be done with ICT tools. ICT tools integrated more || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Just how are we preparing our students for their futures? <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">PLD to sustainable practice <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">How are we using our computers to enhance learning? Interactive whiteboards? Are they just dust catchers? What difference are they going to make to student learning? We need to look at the things our chn are doing on computers are they busy 0r learning? <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sustainability-Fullan 2005 says- must have <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Moral purpose <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Commitment to changing <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Capacity building through networks <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Intelligent accountability <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Deep learning <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Dual commitment short and long term goals <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Cyclical energizing <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">• Long lever of leadership-all prepared to put hand up… <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read or write those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn. Toffler 1991 <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Facebook-how can we use this for learning…at Pirongia School <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Trusting kids.. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">What is the thinking behind the decision made to drop e.g handwriting <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Don’t dismiss ideas like this until you have looked at all angles.
 * <span style="background-color: #dddddd; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: center;">What are new skills / ideas have you learnt / tried? || How will you / have implemented these into classroom practice? || How will you measure the effect of this new learning on student achievement? ||
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1. Add 'save' before youtube address to download a copy.
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Using the Easyspeak to have children record themselves reading || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">As an independent reading activity. The trouble is getting it so that they and others can listen to it. || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Through Running Records (in particular fluency and expression) ||
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I gained some good ideas about websites to look at and things like children reading stories as part of language. || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Need to look at making the children more independent about using the computers || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">This will be done during language and numeracy improvements as well as ICT topic work ||
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Getting us a team to really think about what is important for our students to know and understand -Whats our preferable future?
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Blogspot contributions
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jo Wilson's Keynote questions about fundamental beliefs about learning and what learning looks like in our school have tied in with my professional goals this year that are to have our philosophy of learning strongly reflected in our strategic planning and implementation plan. That the principles, values and key competencies show in our implementation of the curriculum, and in developing our own inquiry process at Pirongia.

<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">As principals we neglect personal capabilities/relationships e.g. resilience etc || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Hmmm! Reflective thinking e.g.about exactly what the principles look like in our school..This is my inquiry. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Allowing time to further develop our use of reflective journals, blogs etc where teacher can reflect and do the teacher inquiry, at staff meetings has worked in the past. As part of appraisal system, inquiry that lead to changed practice.. <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Staff meetings-are we challenging thinking about what we are doing in class rooms? <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Read about Gardner's 5 minds for the future.5 Minds for the future –Gardner 2008-Read <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The Disciplined Mind <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The synthesizing Mind <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The creative mind <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The respectful mind <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The ethical mind <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The habits of mind-do we need to embrace this strongly at P School? || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I am thinking about this..don't have the answers.. || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Each week I (teacher) post a comment about my personal reading, discussing things I liked/didn't like about the book at the time. Within my comment questions are posed to the students. Students are expected to comment on the post.
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Blogging || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Blog focused around personal reading

<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">During reading rotations (during class) students have the opportunity to read what I posted and then comment. This can also be done at home, if they have run out of time in class. Parents have also been invited to participate (no takers yet). || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The standard and depth of comments. Whether students are actually commenting, Variation of individual responses, books read and discussed. This is a personal reading activity and the homelink diaries weren't working for me, this gives me a clearer indication of whether students are actually doing their home reading or not. || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Reinforcement of big ideas for conversations that matter re learning and self review || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Trialled 'talking their story' using voice memo to help with transferring, sequencing or extending ideas <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Reading beginning readers into voice memo for junior students to listen to <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Using youtube clips of other students for tikanga maori to provide models || <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Student reflections <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Is it engagement? Motivation? Achievement? Not sure <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Anecdotal notes <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Teacher dialogue - whats working for my/your kids? ||
 * <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; display: block; font-family: arial,sans,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Useful tips for using ipods within literacy and numeracy programmes