Margaret - Reflection on PLD with Rob

• Attending and contributing to PLD opportunities within and beyond my school.
• Reflection on how aspects of PLD have been enacted and the impact on ākonga learning.
• Professional learning and development that aligns with the goals or next steps identified in the appraisal process and renewal of my practising certificate.

PLD July 10 2018

What was useful/significant to me?

- Judy-Anne set up a site for putting together a playlist using you tube videos.  This now has all things required for assembly preparation that students can use and add to.

- Looked further at managing comments  on google docs and learnt how to lock certain docs for editing when providing instructions to class.  Suggesting/edit/viewing mode when sharing.  Steve has also set up a group to enable us to email shared docs to whole class.

- Using the whole school planning template now in teachers shared folder.  This will be helpful with me and Steve working together with our planning as we can add to it things such as what students need support or where we left off when we are in the class.

What I am finding challenging?

Still finding the process for sharing photos easily with the whole class rather complicated but are still covering this today.

See saw - still to come

Management of learning in class - need more practice with the systems in class to get this down pact.

  Where are my class/myself next steps?

Continue to practice using these systems

Put class rules/routines up on display in the class 

Continue to have students teach each other new skills as they learn them.

Work on managing comments (marking) even spending 5 minutes at break going through these to keep up to date.

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TBCS - Teacher Only Days 9/10 July - Reflection - Judy-Anne

Teacher Only Days - 9/10 July 2018

Reflection on progress

What learning was useful/significant for me

It is always useful to spend time actually trying out stuff we are learning about so it was useful for me to spend some time playing with the long term plan template, merging cells, changing headings and titles etc. Still lots to do on it but have made a start and Steve knows what he is doing with it so help is readily available.

It was also good to have a look at photos and how they are stored in the two different places- so all of them should be in one of those places.

A little extra playing also got photos I wanted into blog posts - it appears I should needed to go further into the web pages to get to the actual picture.

It was interesting to go further into sites to increase what I had started with the songs for assembly. Hadn't really considered it being a web page so quite exciting to think we have made a web page!

What am I finding challenging…

I found the comments bit challenging as I don't do this very often and part way through a comment my cursor moved so I was in the wrong place. I didn't notice so it became difficult to fix.

Time to play is always a challenge.

Tend to feel 'behind' so mindset is a challenge

What are my and/or my class’s next steps...

Play further with the long term template
Figure out how to get my videos to work on blogger
Add more videos to the Hui Songs site

• Attending and contributing to PLD opport
• unities within and beyond my school.
• Reflection on how aspects of PLD have been enacted and the impact on ākonga learning.
• Professional learning and development that aligns with the goals or next steps identified in the appraisal process

Margaret - Using Shared Document on Google Drive

As a class we tried  working together on a shared doc where the students had to watch a video and make comments on the pros and cons.  The task was set up on the class screen so I could see everyone who was working on it.  It was quite interesting to see them work out where they could type when someone else was there and they soon realised they could add comments to their classmates work.  It was great to see them adding positive comments to each others work as they read through and I felt this really helped those struggling writers or those who are always asking what to do as it was being modelled right there in front of them.  I could also add my comments and corrections for students to fix when they told me they were done.  This was done in real time so feedback was immediate.  I felt this worked really well especially with the students adding such positive comments which led to quite a positive atmosphere.
Next steps :  Find out how to freeze parts of a shared doc such as instructions so students cant change anything
Continue to discuss expected behaviours (not messing with other peoples work, encouraging comments only) when working collaboratively in this way ( the same as any other situation) and have these displayed around the room.

TBCS-Steve-Google Docs-Editing

I have started using Google docs to edit work. Giving real time responses to work.
Students enjoyed it when I managed to work out how to highlight and add comments to a specific task of editing. They cast their work onto the big screen, then together worked through the editing process in real time.
Problem: takes to long to edit.
Solution in action: one student asked if we could have codes for work, i.e. sp for spelling, sm for speech marks. he made a sheet and we will share it with the students.
Next Step for teaching:
Co=ordinate set days for editing work. Work with Margaret to implement this so we have a consistent approach.
To be developed.

Steve-Pastors Visit-21 June 2018-staff

Our annual invitation to Pastors to visit over breakfast had to change this year. Due to staffing times and issues, a breakfast wasn't going to work.
We rescheduled for a 9-30 visit with the Principal before a walk through of the classes, followed by a morning tea.
We started in Rm 4 where the children were working through Literacy via Google Docs being shared on the big screen, editing and children adding information for parents via Seesaw.
Room 3 was next where the children were working through mathematics.
Rm 1 was just finishing a group talk and was dispersing for different activities.
They then joined our whole school for the start of day procedure (which we had rescheduled so that they might see it) for prayers, bible verse discussion and milk.
We then adjourned to the Library for morning tea. A good discussion time was had with staff and pastors.
We closed in prayer and thanked them for their visit.

Next Steps. Redo this process, much better for seeing what Christian Schools look like.

Here is a slideshow I found which you may find helpful:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19ENISja-n9WPlfjifVOojd4oBMTYokLUJNYkss2rdaY/edit#slide=id.p