Milestone+3+Evidence

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__**Greenpark School**__
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/tauranga-int.school.nz/viewform?hl=en&pli=1&ndplr=1&formkey=dHBqX1lEWGpJTWlQVU1NVUFuNEtxS1E6MQ#gid=0 || iTeam Lead Teacher Meeting 24th March at TIS.
 * Goal || Actions || Evidence ||
 * 3. || Decide what ICT tools are essential for teaching and learning. Then survey strengths and weaknesses. || Survey
 * 3. || Share e-learning through lead teacher sessions, TOD, facilitator support and interschool workshops. || Interschool Workshops 22nd March 3:30-4:40pm at TPS, GPS, and TIS.

April 5th - Karen ran a session for 10 Support Staff on Digital Storytelling using Comic Life. See their reflections here || iTeam Leadership day (Tetramap) 13th May at TIS. Contribution of interschool workshop presentations and resources onto wiki for access and use by teachers. ||
 * 3. || Lead Teachers attendance at Learning @ Schools conference, iTeam leadership sessions, ULearn conference and e-learning networking. || Kylie and Stacey attended Learning @ Schools conference in Rotorua.
 * 3. || Create and use forums via the KnowledgeNet. Develop student's use of E-Portfolios. || __**Kylie**__

Currently I have worked with a small group of advanced readers in my class to develop a goals page which the children copied and filled in the blanks and also an active forum that the children can use to record their ideas/learning and discuss. My expected outcomes from my portfolios is that the children will become more engaged in the learning and be able to share their understandings and develop deeper understandings through discussions with their peers. So far children have enjoyed sharing their understandings through a different medium and also seeing it as an opportunity to discuss ideas with others often when not in class but from home. What we think – Abbie – The thing I like about my portfolio is being able to do my work on the computer, share ideas with my friends, do forums and reflect on my learning goals. My portfolio is good for your learning because we are able to do inferring, and reflect on our learning. Our next steps are for us to use my portfolio to share more of our learning and show our own assessment of our learning. I would also like to see the children taking more ownership for the development of pages.

__**//Warren: //**__

With Karen's assistance we got all of the chn in my class set up with their own MyPortfolio accounts. This first session of setting up the chn with their new a/c's was not entirely plain sailing, but by the end of the time that Karen had allocated to work with me we had all of the chn registered. The chns first task was to respond to the initial forums that I had posted and some of the quicker learners even started to message each other and set up their own groups.



I elected to use the forum facility of MyPortfolio, rather than KnoweldgeNet, with my Year Six class as this is going to be the direction that the school takes after 2013, when MyPortfolio becomes the major provider of students' online portfolios. || May 23 - ALL teachers have created an account using MyPortfolio and have joined the Greenpark Staff Group. Four pages were created for them to copy and to use as part of the performance management process. They were for: 1. Appraisal Goals 2. Reflections 3. Professional Readings 4. Professional Development.
 * 3. || Create E-Portfolios for teacher and students to share understandings of context and process. || Teacher portfolios introduced at staff meeting on May 9 and 23. Using MyPortfolio.

Some teachers expressed an interest immediately after this session in wanting to start using MyPortfolio with their students. || Yr 6 class goal setting template.
 * 3. || ICT tools will be included in the teachers' planning and classroom practice. || Highlighting of where ICT will be incorporated in weekly plans, specified in separate plans. ||
 * 4 || To define the role and purpose of E-Portfolios. Create sample E-Portfolios pages/portfolios that demonstrate clearly the expectations for teachers and students. || [[image:Picture2.gif width="331" height="218"]][[image:Picture_warren.gif width="449" height="239"]]



Yr 4 reading Group goal setting - NB students are asked to provide evidence to support the achievement of their goals.



FPS group using the MyPortfolio forums to extend students learning and interactions.

A blog was created by a teacher aide and the Karen for two boys who have special learning needs. It was hoped it would encourage them to write for an authentic audince and would give them a space to share their ideas.

@http://greenparkboys.blogspot.com/



It turned out the Jacob's Nan was on holiday in Bahrain when she posted this. || New server at GPS. || Staff Meeting - New Tools KN -ePortfolios (Yr1-3) 16/5/11 TOD - Lane Clark 2/5/11 || Kylie's draft Rubric is currently being shared for comment. 10/5/11 || Design a schedule years 1-6. || Trevor Bond Staff meetings on questioning 28th February and 14th March. Inquiry staff meeting by Kylie 7th March. Lane Clark - TOD and follow up 2nd and 3rd May Cognitive Load Theory and Tools (Think Box)
 * 4 || Make sure the school infrastructure can cater effectively for the demands of E-Portfolios. || All classrooms currently being upgraded to having four desktop PC's connected to the Internet.
 * 4 || Provide PD for the staff to upskill them all in the use of E-Portfolios as effective teaching and learning tools. || Staff Meeting - Introduction to MyPortfolio (Yr4 - 6) 9/5/11 (Karen Mills)
 * 5 || Lead Teachers will continually add to the iTeam wiki. Demonstrate to staff access and uses of the wiki. || Karen introduced the wiki to teachers at GPS at staff meeting 14th March ||
 * 5 || To create a link within the staff page of our LMS - KnowledgeNet to the iTeam wiki, for seamless sharing. || Link in staff page area of KnowledgeNet. ||
 * 1. || Develop rubrics to assist children and teachers in understanding the learning process. || [[file:Micheal Pohls Thinking tools at what level pdf.pdf]]
 * 1. || Provide the children with a range of tools to enable them to choose the one most suitable.

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 * 2. || The ICTPD goals will be included in the appraisal process and annual plan summary. || Staff were issued with a school-wide goal to address the incorporation of ICT into classroom practice
 * 2. || The Principal and ICT management will meet regularly to review progress of the action plan. || [[file:Action Plan for 2011.doc]] ||

__**Tauranga Intermediate**__



 * Goal || What || Evidence ||
 * 1 || Rubrics developed for Key Competencies. || [[file:KEY SKILLS ONE PAGE.pdf]][[file:TIS Latest Curric.pdf]]

Cross-Competency Approach chosen after work done by Trevor Bond, Deputy Principal and Lead Teachers in late 2010. Learning model, Learning Journals, Key Skills and Questioning Waka introduced to staff at TOD on Jan 27. || In 2010 the strategic plan of the school was revised by the Senior Leadership (Principal, Deputy Principals (3), Numeracy & Literacy Specialists of the school with valuable input from the school community. This coincided with the revision and development of our school curriculum and learning model. This year has proven that our school curriculum is a working document as make changes planning for the needs and interests of our students. ||
 * 2 || School charter, strategic plan || [[file:Strategic direction ideas.pdf]]


 * 3 || Teacher planning and reflections shows effective integration of e-learning.

Teachers implement the schools inquiry learning model in a manner that utilises ICT as a tool for gaining information and communicating learning. || __**Intercluster TAI related to improving writing outcomes for students using email. This snippet is from the Year 8 teachers planning:**__ Session # 1: Students will be involved in Paired writing. Room 19 students are mentoring students from Tauranga Primary School. Todays session will be all about training students into giving feedback and feedforward to their mentees, being constructive, also looking at how to do this through gaggle email. Mary has made resources for students to refer to, they will also practice this in class, buddied up to give them peer tutoring through Narrative writing within their reading groups, they will work with their buddies, edit each-others work.

E-learning is embedded into classroom rotations. See Activity(ICT)



Teachers are using a Google Site as an e-Portfolio for aspects of their performance management documentation. These were introduced to teachers at a full staff meeting on Feb 15.

Teachers are required to complete a PMI reflection once a term and ICT Integration is included in this. See sample below.



Teachers are incorporating the schools learning model in their students learning experiences.



The Deputy Principal led two optional planning (March 23 and 30) the end of the term for teachers who wanted to be involved in planning the Inquiry focus for the following term. As a group, the teachers brainstorm and co-construct the plan together using the schools learning model. ALL teachers are given a copy for this and they can choose to use or create their own.

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 * 4 || Teachers create relevant online opportunities fo caregivers and whanau to engage meaningfully with their childs learning. || Refer to VLN Reflection and e-portfolio journey on MyPorftolio. ||
 * 5 || Teachers and leaders are engaged in online professional discussions in terms of their practice. || Teachers are using their e-Portfolios for appraisal discussions and will be using these for their reflecting to reflect on their Teacher Action Inquiries which were introduced on May 10. Two more session are planned this term on May 31 and June 21. A discussion topic has been created on the VLN for TAI lead teachers to reflect/comment and share their journeys.



Lead teachers and Deputy Principal have joined the VLN and some Learning@School Reflections have been posted on here. They have also explored the VLN features and discussed how best to use this space. @http://www.vln.school.nz/pg/groups/26964/iteam-tauranga/ ||

__Tauranga Primary__
Reviewed our current TPS curriculum - Aim to enhance Key Competencies as the centre of our curriculum and discussed how we will gather evidence to demonstrate progress in these. Self Manager - goal setting rubric (etap) - foci for Term 1 data, OTJ based on goal setting for learning conferences Team Player - Term 2 foci across school - rubric below - all teachers to make an OTJ onto LMS in Term 2
 * ~ School Goal ||~ Evidence ||
 * Develop a key competency framework || __Senior Leadership team day week 1, Term 2 (Principal, DP, 2 x AP's)__
 * Decisions:**

|| (Goal 4 cross over). ||
 * Implement learning (Inquiry) model

At the end of 2010 TPS staff worked with Trevor Bond (facilitator) to review and refine our 'Inquiry Model". We designed the new TPS LEARNING MODEL (above). It is inteneded to be a model that can be applied across all curriculum areas and in fact to all learning situations. Trevor presented a workshop to staff in Term 1, 2011 about the questioning element of the model. We have begun trialling the model school-wide in 2011.

__Jo Howard__ I initially trialled the Learning Model in Term 1 but made a poor choice on the subject that I introduced it for. The children had very little prior knowledge on the subject so were unable to come up with what they didn't know. I used teacher judgement and decided that for this unit of learning it would need to be more teacher directed.

Term 2 I am using the learning model as an integrated plan across the curriculum but with a particular focus on science. See below. [|Science weather unit plan.pdf] || The junior syndicate have been trialling Hector's World to help the student's learn about safe online practices and digital citizenship. The core content of Hectors World is the __//** [|7 animated episodes] **//__ featuring Hector the dolphin, and his friends. Each episode has support material for teachers and parents. This support material was helpful at giving teachers the confidence and knowledge of what to cover. Buffering the videos from the site did take some time which put some off, so i made a mimio notebook and made links to each episode. This made is much more easier and quicker for the staff to access the episodes, and was modified for the middle syndicate who then used it on the children in years 3-4.
 * Online policies and Cyber Safety policies || **Sarah Taylor - Hector's World**

The children loved the episodes and would sing along to the theme tune each time. The follow up activities allowed the children to discuss the episode and learning topic. I would always print off the episode booklet and send it home for weekend reading, to inform the parents too!

Next Step - As a staff, we are going to discuss and reflect on how often this programme should be repeated - because there is only 7 episodes we don't want it to become a repeatative and meaningless programme.


 * Jo Howard**

I have been trialling Netsmartz which is an American web based programme that introduces children to the basics of internet safety. It is aimed at younger children (from year 4) but also has sections that are aimed towards the pre-teens and teens. It has whole class activities and individual activities that can be worked on online or offline. Although internet safety is the primary focus, it also introduces real life safety. My childern have found the work covered so far to be interesting and age appropriate. I intend to continue with the whole programme. There are also plans for me to introduce the rest of the senior syndicate to the programme and complete one or two of the activities.



Here is an example of a keynote presentation that two children completed during Term 1 focusing on real life safety and the strategies they should use if put in difficult situations. As the title frame shows, the children have already developed an awareness of not sharing your image and name with strangers.

Next step to get staff and student reflections - modify what has been trialled and develop the school wide cyber safety resource. || Crosses over with Goal 4 – caregivers/whanau engage meaningfully with child’s learning || As part of appraisal process teachers are part of an Inquiry Team, they meet twice a term and are following the TPS learning model as a basis of their inquiry into teaching practice. One team is focusing on e-portfolios.
 * E-Portfolios

Several teachers within the school are trialling E-Portfolios through our LMS KnowledgeNet. Some are focusing in one particular curriculum area whilst others are focusing on small groups covering the core curriculum of Literacy and Numeracy. See below for example from students Learning Journal.



The children in Room 6 have uploaded one piece of work to their individual learning journals. I gave passwords to all parents and shared the Knowledgnet pages and learning journals with them during learning conferences. As of this date no parents have left feedback. I am not sure if this is because they had already seen their child's work or if the school community is not yet ready for such a forum. My next steps will be to get the children to add more work to their learning journals and send home a letter to parents for feedback along with a reminder of their passwords. If this does not elicit any results it would make me question the usefulness of this sharing format. || with agreed goals and foci for the contract. || * Elearning one of 3 major strategic goals for TPS over the next two years. Inter School Staff meeting - Jo and Sarah presented workshops 100% of staff attended workshops across all schools. || Promotion of Teaching as Inquiry approach to professional learning. || elearning goals part of individual apprasial agreement
 * Principals ensure school charter, strategic directions and resourcing align
 * TPS 2011 elearning/ ICT action plan part of 2011 Charter. Charter accepted by MOE April 2011. Special mention was made about the strength of the ICT plan...."**//You have a comprehensive plan and target for developing information communication technology, particularly e-learning.". (Makoha Garniner, Manager BOP.//**
 * SNUP project - has been approved by MOE - May 2011, contractors on site to price out the job. ||
 * Attendance and presentations by cluster members at local and national conferences || [[file:L@S Breakout Notes.pdf]]
 * Integration of elearning goals into appraisal process.

Inquiry teams established and meeting twice a term. Teams will report back to staff in Term 4.

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__**2011 Learning@School Reflections**__
View them here or see below.



__Reflections__
Jo Howard Refer to My Portfolio