Taking the Leap

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…

Take the Leap