Follow up - feedback on last visit from Rob

Hi guys,

It was good to see you all again last week. This visit highlighted to me the importance of tightening up our systems for ensuring that we all follow up on agreed actions after each visit.

We are accountable to the Ministry of Education and have a milestone report coming up so we need to ensure that we can all say we are engaged in the project, as shown through our continual improvements and the evidence of this.

Craig, your follow up actions from the last time were:

1. Ensure that the large screen TV is showing a child's screen as much as possible throughout every day. This will provide modeling to other learners, plus an easy ability for you to monitor what is happening.
2. Continue working on the expectations for class routines so that you and the class know how to use the different aspects of the technology.
3. Use Seesaw regularly throughout the week - moving from you controlling this to the students taking more ownership of the process.
4. Getting children to write on topics that interest and engage them, preferrably using short and easy to achieve genres; the ideas on the blog are a good starting point.

Judy-Anne, your follow up actions from the last time were:

1. Get students taking photos of their learning and posting to Seesaw regularly.
2. Use the large screen to show children working on the iPads as much as possible. See modeling/monitoring comment above for Craig.

Steve and Margaret, your follow up actions from this visit are:

1. Get students using Google Photos to upload and share what is happening in the learning. You can get students commenting on these photos which is a great personal writing exercise, even if it is just labelling photos... there are lots of ways you can ramp this up, eg. using different parts of speech/etc.
2. Get students using Google Drawings to create imagery for their learning - this might be to illustrate their writing or whatever they come up with.
3. Explore Google Presentations as a fun way to present learning - the cool thing about this is that it utilises movement, sound, text and imagery which can be quite powerful.

I will do the following to support this:

1. The area that I can improve on with regards to this is to ensure that actions are clearly agreed on and communicated during each visit. I will create a system which has a bit of a log of each session so everyone knows what we focused on, what they need to do next and any other items. I'll link this to the blog so it is accessible to everyone at all times.
2. I will also make sure all staff are invited to the calendar events for when I'm planned to be there, just in case Steve is away. 

If any aspect of this isn't clear, please either call me or comment back here. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the next teacher only days, which are penciled for 9/10 July.


Kind regards,
Rob