Sunday, 9 September 2018
Self Reflection - CAMP
Supported and helped manage, lead this programme when it was in operation! It required a lot of time and commitment. However this is my passion.
Self Reflection - Lunchtime promotions
This has been highly successful. Rugby has taken off and I have consistently had 30 kids on average participate in this promotion every lunch time.
Lately I have been working with Patrina from the ELC to set up another programme during break 1 and 3 to further educate students on how to socialise in the playground and manage themselves. Watch this space!
Lately I have been working with Patrina from the ELC to set up another programme during break 1 and 3 to further educate students on how to socialise in the playground and manage themselves. Watch this space!
Self Reflection Appraisal Goal - Lead Year 9 cohort
Have worked closely with Eric all year with his programme. Currently in the process of organising the Tongariro Crossing trip which will happen at the end of term 4. Held a staff meeting aimed at promoting the year 9 programme. Throughout the year I have held assemblies, including year 9 Focus, to help promote this as an option for our Year 8's. Specialist teacher support with programmes that engage our Year 9 cohort has been ongoing.
Self Reflection Appraisal Goals 2018
Mid Year Reflection - Language
-- Have set up 2 teachers with a PD session with Jeanne Gilbert for Term 3 /
-Have also set about releasing 2 teachers to again align our POI, with our Te Reo Ipit programmes.
Leading some language meetings to help support Sarah Alloway and Kathryn Hogg lead pedagogy meetings.
-- Have set up 2 teachers with a PD session with Jeanne Gilbert for Term 3 /
-Have also set about releasing 2 teachers to again align our POI, with our Te Reo Ipit programmes.
Leading some language meetings to help support Sarah Alloway and Kathryn Hogg lead pedagogy meetings.
How to Accelerate Learning (staff Meeting)
Staff Meeting - Tuesday 28th August 2018 - Dust, Polish, Shine
How do we accelerate learning at Berkley?
Literacy PD - Gail Loane
Leading Learning PD - Gail Loane - Wednesday 5th September 2018
Gail shared about a student that she has been working with recently and the journey that he has been on with his writing.
- Make connections
- What do they need?
- How do we help them to take the next step?
Ladder of Inference
Learning from your experience
- Stop using avoidance strategies such as blame, justification, denial and quitting
- Using 'I' Statements
- Notice the little moments - Call it as it happens - Deal with it
- This can be a good opportunity to share perspectives/clarify any misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
- This same strategy can be used with students - Gail mentioned about a school that has used this successfully.
How to facilitate Learning Conversations effectively with colleagues, student teachers, etc.
- Make connections
- What do they need?
- How do we help them to take the next step?
Ladder of Inference
Learning from your experience
- Stop using avoidance strategies such as blame, justification, denial and quitting
- Using 'I' Statements
- Notice the little moments - Call it as it happens - Deal with it
- This can be a good opportunity to share perspectives/clarify any misunderstandings and misinterpretations.
- This same strategy can be used with students - Gail mentioned about a school that has used this successfully.
How to facilitate Learning Conversations effectively with colleagues, student teachers, etc.
Monday, 3 September 2018
Monday, 30 October 2017
How to Start a LESSON with students
How to introduce a lesson to make allow students to discover the learning, rather than tell them the WALT and S:C
Very helpful and more engaging for our students - a problem solving approach that invites students to discover, imitate, ...
Remember to scaffold the process------ After one time it will still be fragile..... it takes time and practice for students to embed this earning..
Very helpful and more engaging for our students - a problem solving approach that invites students to discover, imitate, ...
Remember to scaffold the process------ After one time it will still be fragile..... it takes time and practice for students to embed this earning..
“Over the year we have been writing some memoir pieces and have used other memoirists to help us get better at it. Today we will be reading a memoir by Gavin Bishop and we will see what he can teach us about memoir writing. He uses some pretty interesting punctuation in here. We are going to find it, and work out why he chooses to use this particular punctuation in this particular text. How does it help the effectiveness of his writing? It might help us make decisions in our own writing – let’s see.”
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Saturday, 22 July 2017
PD - Andrea Millar - IB CONCEPTUAL LEARNING
IB Concepts: Session one
It's good to know the content
It is great to know the pedagogy
It is imperative to know the students
What evidence do we have that learners are valued?
Activity: Engaging in ideas.
What's Knowledge Building?
It is giving them knowledge or tools to gain knowledge.
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Shouldn't do the same units year after year. Need to review: more engaging? more relevant?
Need some delight in not knowing what is going to happen next. Alter related concepts. Teachers need to be engaged in this. Students will bring learning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson clip - the most human
How is my learning space unique?
Kids explore environment through exploration. Help them explore. Binoculas. Luxory of exploration.
What are students doing in an inquiry classroom?
If you have 'got them', they will achieve. Read because you want to read. Hook their interest.
It is great to know the pedagogy
It is imperative to know the students
What evidence do we have that learners are valued?
Activity: Engaging in ideas.
What's Knowledge Building?
It is giving them knowledge or tools to gain knowledge.
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Shouldn't do the same units year after year. Need to review: more engaging? more relevant?
Need some delight in not knowing what is going to happen next. Alter related concepts. Teachers need to be engaged in this. Students will bring learning.
Neil deGrasse Tyson clip - the most human
How is my learning space unique?
Kids explore environment through exploration. Help them explore. Binoculas. Luxory of exploration.
What are students doing in an inquiry classroom?
If you have 'got them', they will achieve. Read because you want to read. Hook their interest.
IB Concepts: Session two
Motivation!
(Shane Day) First term. Train them Connect to emotion. Measurement What is your connection? Do by example. Who has been sad?
Include everyone's interests.
Take advantage of learning! Self-inflicted business. What is happening around you? Take a hold of the learning rather than leave it.
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Primary sources.
Go to a book: inquiry for information
Need to do inquiry for meaning.
Kids like: trendy, dialect,
Clip
Ralston Elementary
We go far above what the curriculum asks.
Math is everywhere. We need it for everything.
What are we aiming for? Build up to that (eg, te reo Maaori summative)
We have children that are frighten to take a risk. They need courage.
The greatest enemy to understanding is coverage. - Howard
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Related concepts are keen!
Which are concepts? Which is facts?
Concepts:
Build on prior knowledge. Very important! (Not just a KWL)
Think of it different. Starting to tap into it the second week.
Provocation timing. Beginning of a learning process.
Review previous units that may not have caught on. Why would a student be interested in learning about this?
Topic - something from currculum
Ask - What is the purpose? why is it compelling, significant, intriuing
Understanding goals - students will understand by the end of the unit.
Selecting concepts (related) - what concepts are the focus for the unit?
Conceptual Understanding - include where appropriate some of the concepts you have chosen. A statement.
IB Concepts: Session Three
Conceptual Understanding:
Conflict is a part of life and how we perceive and manage it has an impact.
Selecting Concepts:
Relationships, Perspective, Resolution, Managing Self, Accountability
Understanding Goals:
- Conflict happens
- The way people deal with conflict has an impact (resolving conflict)
- People perceive and react to conflict in different ways
Ask: Encounter conflict daily (home, school, social) Significant? ✔ Compelling? ✔ Intriguing? ✔
Topic: Conflict
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Conflict could have many areas. Don't narrow it down. Conflict of living things. Using the environment. Water conflicts in New Zealand.
Try not to mix units.
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Inquiry as provocation.
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Inquiry as provocation.
Igniting Concepts
Students are achieve learners.
PD - IB Concepts - Andrea Millar
2017 Berkley Staff PYP Professional Development Day - IB Concepts
2017 Berkley Staff PYP Professional Development Day - Concepts
Content focus for the day:
Connecting provocations and wonderings - Understanding the types of engagements that will result in deeper and more enduring learning.
Workshop Details:
Date: Friday 21 July 2017
Time: 8:30am - 4:00pm
Venue: Room 8A
Workshop facilitator:
Andrea Muller
Director: Innovative Global Education
andrea@innovativeglobaled.org
m: +64 21 1256478
Programme:
8:30am School welcomes and admin
9:00am Workshop session 1 (Room 8A)
10:40am Break 1 (20min) (Morning Tea Provided in the staffroom)
11:00am Workshop session 2
12:45pm Break 2 Lunch (30min) (Bring own lunch)
1:15pm Workshop Session 3
2.30pm Break 3 (15min)
2:45pm Workshop Session 4
4:00pm Finish
Staff to bring:
Copy of the 2017 Berkley POI
A personal artifact that represents "Who you are"
Prior Reading:
In preparation for the workshop please access and read the following two articles located in the associated resource folder.
- Teaching for conceptual understanding Nam-Hwa Kang and Carrie Howren
Monday, 5 June 2017
Sunday, 19 March 2017
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