Notes+from+19th+March+Meeting


 * Notes from 19th March Meeting**

media type="custom" key="3487098"media type="custom" key="3487108" **Simo** n: PD: Year 1: **3** A lot of work up till now **Sharon** :PF: Year 2: **3** Biggest challenge - getting the Principals together for a mtg **Noe** l: PD: Year 1: Great to great down the barriers **Lorraine** : PF: Year 2: **2** An eLearning community across Rotorua **Jeannett** e: PF: Year 2: **4** Hoping to make a difference in Kawerau **1-2** Still developing **Heath** : PF: Year 1: **4** Expectations so far have been met **Tessa** : 5 years with CORE / MoE have a neat team / Online sharing of knowledge / .5 NSSF & .4 with online - currently a repository **Lynley** : PD & LT: Year 1: Connectedness across all schools / Post grad study **Rebecca** : PD & Principal: Year 1: **1**-Time / **4**-Connectedness / Audio Conference every Wed / 8 teachers in the whole cluster / Online connectedness / 5 yr old / Launch in 2 weeks **Lyn** : PF: Year 3: **4**: 95 teachers / Thinking last year / Inquiry this year / this cluster in the 1st year operated without a PF / Google doc **Pam** : LT: Year 3: **4**: Year Most successful collaborative / The development in all the schools with eLearning has been incredible **Paula** : Year 2: Big picture as opposed to the whizzy bangy stuff / Cluster wiki going well - still surface at the moment "Someone coming in to your pantry and taking something out - without leaving a footprint"
 * Introductions**
 * Name - Cluster year - On  a scale of 1 - 4 ** (1=Ugly / 4=Fabulous)
 * Jan Marie **: PF: Year 2: **4** Having a great time

<span style="color: rgb(142, 11, 11);">**Milestones**
 * Why do we write them?**
 * MoE requirement
 * Write them for ourselves
 * Reflective
 * Feedback / Feedforward
 * Summative
 * Accountability - extrinsic & intrinsic
 * Evidence based practice
 * Data driven practice


 * Who is the audience?**
 * MoE
 * BoT
 * Teachers
 * A tweaked version to some re not pin pointing schools that may not be progressing along


 * National facilitation interventions**
 * Not personalised!
 * Any interventions?
 * Did we help you?
 * Outcomes from these?


 * Goal writing & what evidence supports those goals and the key lessons & next steps to achieving the outcomes**
 * Analyzed data not raw data
 * Write in the 3rd person
 * A retrospective account - any data (even prior data) - intentions - interventions - outcomes - evidence - analysis


 * Feedback from L@S**
 * Outcome from this conference
 * Change in practice
 * Where to now
 * On-sharing the knowledge
 * Key questions prior to the next conference
 * Line these up with the Nat goals / Cluster goals etc
 * Professional and personal growth
 * Consider a Facilitators wiki in this BoP cluster network group


 * What constitutes evidence and data**
 * Gathering from the tchrs, chn, principals,
 * Can be quantitative and qualitative
 * Quantitative - surveys / scales - continuims
 * Qualitative - quotes, photos, anecdotal,
 * Report on the implementation of the programme - the way you have delivered (In class support / peer to peer / LT mtgs)
 * OUTCOMES - how did the above, impact on the programme
 * IDEALLY - keep your GOALS in mind. Keep your LEARNING INTENTIONS clear (What are you trying to achieve here)


 * Data gathering Processes**
 * Identify a COUPLE? of stories
 * Change of teacher thinking / Change of teacher practice
 * Hattie's table of effect sizes.....Feedback / Students prior cognitive ability / Instructional quality (Tchr intervention) etc
 * How do we know that chn are learning (SOLO - Structured Observable Learning Outcomes) Aligned with Blooms Taxonomy


 * Instructional quality (Tchr intervention) etc**
 * How do we know that chn are learning (SOLO - Structured Observable Learning

> * Prestructural - early stage
 * Outcomes) Aligned with Blooms Taxonomy**
 * Lose the superficial feedback
 * More rigor required
 * Teaching for transfer!!
 * SOLO links
 * Unistructional - regurgitating only
 * Multistructural - Starting to transfer
 * Rotational
 * Extended abstract
 * Rubrick
 * When is learning ever linear??
 * Difference between eLearning and ICT

• Benchmark / Rubrick • Cluster goals • Finances – underspend: need to apply to carry the money over • Keep it simple / concise in 10-12 pages!! ☺
 * MS rubric**
 * Need to CLEARLY outline WHERE and HOW the underspend will be spent in the 1st 6 months of the year**


 * SOLO:** Barbara Wen??

• Otakawa - Visioning • Owhata - • Lynmore - Inquiry • Paengaroa • Point England – pedagogy • Waikowhai – SOLO • Onehanga • Mount View • Taihape Area School • Cole St
 * Paula**:
 * 1. Schools to visit: Jnr focus in term 1 re Thinking Strategies / Middle in term 2 / Snr in term 3**

• Everyone • Working during drives etc • School visits have been transformative • Twiiter: Curriculum Conference • Peterhead Sch • Standards for the KC’s????? • How to use the new resources – a user induction • What does assessment look like? • What is thinking? • The New Zealand CURRICULUM online • Ted talks siftables
 * 2. Who goes???**

• Netsafe / Social networking / (NetSmart: Tracking Theresa) • A combined BoT Cluster mtg • A possible flyer to get parents inDo you realize your child is being watched???
 * 3. Tips for engaging/connecting with community**

• Matamata DistrICT Schools Home • Google applications • Wikis – Purpose for communicating & collaborating • iJot – Video messaging that is embeddable media • Sandbox area too – • Wetpaint - a mix between blogs and wikis (Voice Thread) • www.pynyoutube
 * 4. Tips to ….**

Looking at Variation writing Other .....
 * 5. Next mtg**: <span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">**September 17th**
 * Hinuera hosting – Lynley & Heath :-)**