Professional Learning TOD 2019

8:45
Clarity Education - Ande Ford - Collaborative Inquiry

Move toward:

- The children in our 'team belong to ALL of us

- Use inquiry to guide reflections

- Learning focused conversations at most team meetings

- Sharing ideas that worked

- Based on evidence

- Write up ONE inquiry for the whole team

- REGULAR discussions

- Not 'flash'

- Data driven

- External input/learning

"How do we engage our learners so they are motivated to learn?"

Purpose/self efficacy 

Why Collaborative Inquiry?

Collaborative is about what you are willing to do for yourself, others and your students. Trust is the foundation. 

COL's - 10:10
MMA
In groups of three we had to crete  secret handshake. Refined and then taught to another group - hilarious!!!

SMA - Collaborate Inquiry (Co-construction)
Coming up with a new name for 2019 - some people feel it doesn't need to change. This year will look slightly different, however it will flow from SCH and CST framework.
Working smarter not harder!!
We will only be in one group throughout the whole year - in smaller groups with the facilitator. four in school COL's teachers will facilitate assisted by SCH and CTE. We will have targets each term. Meetings will be three times a term - one will be individual with the facilitator. 

AFI - Group Formation
Expect an email week three - input about which group we would like to be a part of. Starts in week four. 

KGI - Observation Tool
Poutama pounamu observation tool 
Observation - You pair up with someone in your group and organise a time to observe each others junior classes
How it looks - first five mins what do you see and hear; next ten minutes writing and recording anything relevant; last five, sit back and observe - record anything you may have missed.
Observation analysis tool - this has been developed from the tool previously used. 
This can be used as appraisal evidence!!

MCH - Appraisal
The two observations will be used as evidence that relates to the practising teacher criteria. Will also need to add reflections. Walk throughs will also occur later in the year - we will receive more guidance throughout the year. 

RCR - "Teachers can make better use of data when they work together"  from the reading by Jane L David.

Co-construction Meeting - Term 4, November

This was our last co-construction meeting for the year. I was really impressed to see more of what the other Technology teachers at FFC teach/make in their classes. Sharing ideas, discussing learners, challenges, highlights and future ideas.

BCH – China trip was the highlight. Challenges were home sickness and tricky connections with home-stay families. The group were worried about the performances they had prepared because some students weren’t taking it seriously – this did resolve itself when they were in China and students were proud of themselves. BCH made a school banner to take with them to the various schools and places they visited. Students had the best opportunities to be immersed in the Chinese culture at the schools.
BCH uses songs to teach the junior students rather than having to repeat phrases over and over.

GSN – Year 9’s have been working on small cars, learning to use the lathe and other machinery. Year 10’s have been making metal garden tools and used torches to weld and anvils to flatten. In graphics they have been doing concept development of ways to present their names as a 3D model. These are then printed out by a 3D printer.

MSA – Basic electronic circuits etc. to be able to program a robot. The robot has a task it has to complete. They are given codes and sensors to modify. The students really like this task because they enjoy the final product.

SSC – Building websites using a range of apps. The difficult part is getting them to write in their blogs using complete sentences and detail. Some have created very basic blogs with images. Geoguessr – a great game to entertain students and educate them without them realising.

SKE – Year 10’s have finished composition – writing lyrics and composing the music themselves. Some will be performing at the junior prize giving. Lyrics are written first because that’s the hardest task. Some students collaborate. Two assessments are done, a song and a performance. Loads of challenges but the end result is always amazing.

JWA – Uses Code Combat to introduce students to coding – always looking for tools to teach coding. Gamification – adding elements of games into learning. Lots of choices to make in terms of characters and solving puzzles, codes are used to solve the puzzles. Differentiates with learning – students can go back and finish previous tasks or develop them. A graphics tablet has been brought to

KRO – Has previous students presenting at an exhibition for their art degrees. Students work through portfolios learning about colours and perspective. Juniors are scaffolded to be able to develop the knowledge and skills to do NCEA art.

RTE – Creating a large wooden box with a sliding lid. Carbon paper to decorate, etched designs and then sanded and varnished.

JWR – Food Tech has a healthy eating focus for Year 10’s – hauora and food groups. Students create posters to display their knowledge of the four food groups. Students move on to design a weekly eating plan that meets the needs of daily requirements.