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Global West ICTPD Cluster
2007-2009Swanson School
Birdwood School
Sunnyvale School
Royal Road School
Lead Teachers
Lead Teacher contacts
Project Team
Director: Bruce McLachlan, Principal, Swanson.
Facilitators: Sue West & Robyn Vine
Management Team: Principals & Sue West
Lead Teachers: From Each School
New eyes…
Roles & Responsibilities
Management Team
• Responsibility for the cluster outcomes• Ensure funding is distributed fairly and accounted for• Close liaison with the MOE national team• Review PD programmes with LTs• Report on achievements/variations
New ways…
Lead Teachers – Open to change
• Develop needs analysis of staff and achievable action plans linked to appraisals.
• Implement support for staff.
• Implement ‘Champion’ book of staff skills.
• Provide feed back to ICT facilitators and project facilitator.
• Oversee the implementation of school action plans. • Adhere to time lines.
• Use indicators from cluster action plan to ensure implementation of key tasks
Roles & Responsibilities
Creativity…
Overview of the national MOE initiatives
ICT Community TKI
ICT in Schools – MOE
Other MOE Initiatives – TDI, etc.
Don’t know about that…
What’s this all about?
Vision:
To provide a powerful and sustainable learning community across the cluster
Mission:
To empower our learning community through effective professional
development that goes beyond application and equipment and into ICT integration,
inquiry and thinking skills.Options…
Professional DevelopmentThomas Guskey – What Makes Professional Development
Effective?
“A couple of years ago, I identified thirteen lists of characteristics of
effective professional development that had been assembled by
different professional organizations and research groups. In
analyzing these lists, I found very little consensus. There wasn't even
agreement on the criteria for effectiveness. Some lists were based on
the concurrence opinions among researchers, others used teacher
self-reports, and only a few looked at impact on student learning. My
conclusion was that we may not have a true consensus on what
makes professional development effective, and that moving toward
one may be more complicated than most people think.”
Reference: The Evaluation Exchange Volume XI, No. 4, Winter 2005/2006 Harvard Family Research Project 2006 http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue32/qanda.html
5 Levels of Professional Development Evaluation
New colours…
Why are we doing this?
Readiness:Getting children ready for school and getting schools ready for children.
ECE Foundations for Discovery
Web Tools
New Curriculum
Face down in the grass…
What do we intend to do?
Critically reflect on the role of ICT/eLearning in the learning and teaching process
Integrate ICT/eLearning within active and authentic learning contexts across the NZ curriculum
Strengthen collaboration between schools
Learning Intentions:
Face up to the clouds…
Term One - Overview
Objectives have come from the proposal with a few extras.
Your senior management team has a copy of the overview.
There are some days assigned to your school that may want to decide on the content with Sue and Robyn.
You may get lost…
Global Learning Intentions
Alignment with Resource-based Learning, NZ Curriculum, Information Retrieval Processes and Facilitatory Environments.
Resource-based Learning
DefineAuthenticate the learningAwaken prior knowledgeConstruct relevant questionsLocatePlan the researchSelectDiscover relevant informationOrganiseConstruct knowledgePresentNew insights and understandingsReflect-Assess-Evaluate
NZ CurriculumAims and Objectives from the NZCurriculum Documents
Facilitatory Environments
Context Student-centred/ICT/eLearningConstructionKnowledgeConstruction and Reasoning Development.CollaborationPairs/Groups/ClassCommunication Conversation/Dialogue/BlogsInformation ICT/ Libraries/Experts/Facilitators
Inquiry Learning ProcessOur inquiry learning process is about teachers and students asking the right questions. Our leading questions are:What do we Know?What do we Want to know?How will we want to find out?What Learning will take place?How will we Apply this?What new Questions do we have?Goal Setting/Rubrics establishedDesign & Tools/Data collectionAnalyses/RubricsConclusion
Review Objectives/ReflectionAssessment and Evaluation
Resource-based Learning
In our proposal we called this Action Learning. We need a common language, so we have named what we
really meant as Resourced-based Learning.
Robyn will talk with you about this.
Correct answers or creative answers…
What would be effective in your school?
Learning Intentions
Birdwood Sunnyvale
Swanson
Royal Road
Don’t let imagination lack…
Examples
Cows
Patterns
Tower Fall
Argument Mapping
Dancing Orc
Dwarf
Hammerhead, ArtRage etc…
Child like eyes …
How would you start a project like this?
The road less traveled…
Designing a staff meeting about our project
What information would be relevant for you staff?
How would you start?
Would cues would you use to get everyone onboard?
Designing a staff meeting about our project
Continue with designing the staff meeting.
What if you get tricky questions?
Do you have any questions or points of interest that you want
to discuss about the project?
Global West ICTPD Cluster2007-2009
It can’t be done…
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