The highlight of the year so far would have to be the #edchatnz conference at Hobson Point Schools. Wow - what an experience! All of our team (Whetu) and Whenua were immersed in another world for two days. We made the most of the opportunity to meet face to face the educational 'nuts' that we have had twitter conversations with on various themes. Dare I say it, but Saturday was even better than Friday. MissDtheteacher was the lone nut who, with a small dedicated group of follower nuts pulled off a two day conference! There were a variety of speakers, workshops and even a Political debate!
To make our lives easier we created a doc to record our ponderings and wonderings as well as tweeting up a storm with 'aha' moments. There was a lot of discussion around each breakout and ways we could grow this at NPS.
WHETU
- Developing our Whetu Trust license - lanyard with areas etc that learner was allowed access.
- Learning on Top - Simple list of learning tasks that had to be completed, then there was the Negotiated list.
- In/out board that had each area learners could be. Moved name across so everyone knew where they were - building independence.
- “Supported”, Self Managing”, “Self Directed” learners placed themselves accordingly which enabled next steps.
- Creating a corner nook, separated by positioning furniture.
- Lowering the roof level (?!) to create an intimate safe space.
- Building on Impact, consciously using immersion (HPPS) to build understanding and knowledge (ie, trips, guest speakers, collaborative planning, designing, etc) Trips don’t need to be a huge RAMS thing but we need to utilise this.
- Get Kidsedchats up and going again!
- Evaluations of the first few days - sort of like the form we did but could do one earlier in the year?
- Alan November - Who owns the learning?
- The first few days, and the last! Ending well.
- Dispositions - Marama team (Karla)
- Peer tutoring
- PEEL paragraph - Point Explain Example Link. Teaching science students to put their knowledge on paper
- Learning dispositions - what are these? Need to know more!
- pbl - Make a difference, be authentic, opportunities to learn, everyone involved - keep it real!
- pbl - How can we use our design brief to tell our story so that it has clarity and relevance?
- pbl - We need to develop our own pbl rubric relevant to our learners and the big picture
- Use buckets to store their gear - easy transport!
- Show work in progress
- Edtalks - how to hack a classroom Anne?
- Bottle bivy
- Need some help developing questioning techniques - Anne is really good at this...
- Getting things started - using an image - football world cup example - woman in the dumpster. Generating questions around this.
- After going on a trip use playdough to re make the scene/environment. Could be interesting to do with River Boys comparing stream to Piako.
- BLOGs - getting our blogs up and going, dedicate time in team meetings
- Reverse mentoring - fresh eyes, critical friend to challenge, share, set goals and develop ideas How can we develop this in Whetu - use of Anne/ MK? (Separate to appraisal)
- Whiteboard paper stuck down centre of table??? Warehouse Stationery!
- Don’t use ‘No’ use ‘Yes and...’ Yes, that’s a good idea and…’ add to the solution.
- Booktrack Classroom -investigate further, could be used to add a dimension to Passage Picker in Book CLub. Option - take the same passage and everyone in the book club adds their music choices. Katie has set up a Whetu A/c all book clubs will be entered on her email account.
- Other…
- HPPS - planning 2-3 weeks ahead so it stayed relevant and learner focused. We feel we do this much better than we used to, listening to student voice - passions and wants.
- The Secret Literacy - David Didau
Once back at school...
What we have initiated!
- Work in progress (art on the wall)
- Katie is having technical difficulties with BookTrack, has emailed them about this. We are going to include BookTrack in our Book Club roles.
- Developing questioning - Anne came in and modeled the Newsboard, continuing with questioning in our Newsboards.
- Reverse Mentoring- have asked for fresh eyes on our programmes (Anne, MK) and will delve into feedback, set new goals etc.
Our Next 5 Priorities:
- Whetu Trust License - develop criteria for what this looks like in Whetu (gather a working party together - the smarties, who can lead and come back to main group) TAB
- Learning Dispositions (Powerful Learning) Karla & Team Marama
- Learning Space, work with what we have a lot more. Using sheer drapery to break visual lines. Creating smaller areas within the large. (Use them to create a breakout space illusion) Katie to investigate sheers.
- Kidsedchats Holly
- Develop our Impact Rubric. Whetua
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