Otepoti ICTPD ClusterJune 19 2008

Australian Council of Deans of Education, 2001, p 87)

Knowledge is not individual ... Rather, knowledge is acquired through social activity, and itself represents a person's relationship to the world which surrounds them and accumulated human experience. In fact, in the so-called knowledge economy more than at any time in the past, knowledge is created collaboratively …

What are we doing today … and why?

What’s the purpose?

To learn with and from each other… what is going on in our schools, how are we doing, what have we got to offer each other today as we build our cluster community

What’s the purpose?

Clarify the cluster goals through the development of a rubric

What’s the purpose?

Look at our own schools through the lens of this rubric, design and plan for the professional learning

What’s the purpose?

Take away a strategy for actively dealing and promoting conflict as a professional learning tool.

What are we doing today … and how?

Move into a Pinwheel

Create a group of threeMove into a wide circle across this room

What has been your journey so

far?Share your school journey

What have been the

challenges…Collate to share on a poster…

What have been the

successes?…Collate to share on a poster…

What is important to

focus on today…

questions / wonderings

Collate to share on a poster…

Experts in their fieldWhat might this have to do with us?

Building a RubricBuilding Clarity around the cluster goals

Goal

Acknowledged / Begun

Practiced Refined Sustained

Develop for the cluster digitally…

Based on work by Mark Treadwell

2008

The Issue of

Time Technical Upskilling staff

Educating Board

1 2 3 4

Building Strategies…

Apply to our own schools

Vision is as vision does. If we want better results, we need to start with data. The use of data enables us to set targets and assess progress toward those goals. It makes the vision real.

(Schmoker, 2001, p 21)

Dealing with conflict(Garmston & Wellman p 186, 1999 )

Conflict: the other face of community

Conflict can exist without community, but community cannot exist without conflict.

What skills does a teacher need to have to teach with

ICT?

A teacher needs to know more ICT skills than their

students to be effective…