TBCS - PLD - Play Based Learning - Judy-Anne

Play based learning at Kaimai School

New Entrant Teachers in the area had a meeting to discuss Play Based Learning this afternoon.
This was one of the people worth watching.

I will add my notes from the session  and a link to Nathan Mikaeer Wallis- what 3-7 year olds need to know too.

Professional Relationships - Staff Meeting

Meeting this morning with staff to discuss staff blog and how to post.  Decided on a focus for the week which was the standard of Developing Personal Relationships surrounding our colleagues. What have we done to meet this standard and how do we show evidence.  

Judy-Anne shared her evidence list of professional learning to give us ideas surrounding this area.

• Participating fully in school/syndicate/faculty/department meetings and be an active member of the team. Share ideas with others.

Setting up Seesaw on students laptops

Room 4 were posting onto seesaw only through the ipad before so they could only do this one at a time.  Steve and myself thought to make this process simpler and more efficient we could put the seesaaw app onto their laptops so students can post straight from there.  Today was a huge learning curve for everyone, myself included.  Steve set Finn up with Seesaw first, then he proceeded to teach two others, then they two others until the whole class had it set up and knew how to post there writing tasks.  There are still a few issues to work around such as some students cant seem to post from google docs and taking the time each break to check and approve work before they are posted.  Each time we go through this process of having the students learn the skill, then teach to others, I learn something new too to apply within the class, while reinforcing for the students.  As a result, more individual items are going home to families on the same day as its being completed and students can see comments from parents immediately.

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.

Matthew 6:33

Seek God's Kingdom first

TBCS - Craig - Kahui Ako COL Meeting,

On Monday 5th June all the staff went to a combined teachers and leaders Kahui Ako COL meeting.

It involved staff from around the region and included primary and secondary teachers.

We looked specifically at the achievement and buy in of our Maori students through creating a family atmosphere and doing the most we can with what we have. (Not waiting for anything to change outside of the class)

Notes are as follows...

Please click Here.

TBCS-Steve-Standards Criteria-Teaching Meeting

Teacher Meeting
Standards Criteria Evidence
Staff met Wednesday am together to identify and report evidence of meeting the standard for No 3 Professional Learning.
We discussed using the Teaching Portfolio https://sites.google.com/site/nzteachingstandards/
to help identify questions to ask oneself and the strategies that might show this as a prompt.
We agreed to ensure we have at least one piece of evidence, preferably a visual to enhance the evidence.

Kahui Ako COL Meeting
All staff bar one, attended the
 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1K4HhMe-1kqNIEiKajDBPkdibLnYVs8PH

See both pdf's.

Next Steps: Find or present evidence on the BLOG. Develop a set process/procedure into our timetable to ingrain this.

TBCS - Kahui Ako COL - Learner Profile -Judy-Anne

We had a Kahui Ako  COL launch on 11 June at Motueka High School.
We were challenged to discuss some big concepts such as dissonance and deficit thinking.
One of the main things I felt challenged by was deficit thinking. How can I change my thinking and change my practise to do as much as I can for children while they are in my care? To a certain extent we need to take out issues of a less than desirable home environment or lack of parent involvement and engagement. Do the best you can for the children and their families that you can. Expect results!

 Learner Profile

TBCS - Professional Relationships - Judy-Anne

• Rather bemused but pleased to receive a text from Andrea (support staff) on Friday 15 June, thanking me for looking after the staff. Such a lovely thought. Hi dear Judy-Anne. I very much hope you are away from school, enjoying a day of art! We are so blessed to have you at school. In the midst of unexpected events, you are thinking of all the details, taking care of all the extra tasks, and most lovely of all, caring for everyone involved, making sure they are ok and not overly burdened. You really are a treasure. May God bless you with relaxing joy today xx

TBCS-Steve-Rm4-Special Character- Grief

TBCS-Prayer-Rm4-Grief-June 2018

A Family member has passed away. I spoke with the children to see if it was alright to discuss and share this information.

We made a circle and worked through what loss was.

1. How do we know someone is in that place?  We don't always know.
2. What can we do to help? Prayer, cuddles/huds, kind words, being there, sharing.
3. We talked about our own (optional) losses and shared how we felt and who we spoke to about it. Answers ranged from: Mum and Dad, best friend.

We concluded our session with shared prayer , girls ‘laying on of hands on Alyssa and the boys on Jayden.

TBCS - Learner Agency Examples - Judy-Anne

• Tuesday 13 June was second transition visit for the William and Elijah. I asked Portia and Phoebe to help them make a drawing, record their story and post on seesaw. They spent ages working, both separately and also apart with the boys. I expected one story each but one boy did 7 and the other 10 posts! Attach some of the posts here.
• I was away Wednesday 14 June so was thrilled to see children had posted work on seesaw. I did have it on the board fro writing but this included work from their devotions as well. I was thrilled to hear that Laila had told Margaret (the teacher)that she wanted to post about her writing, then Willow wanted to post about devotions. They are starting to think about doing it for themselves. Add some of the posts here

Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset - Learner Agency

A video to share with students in relation to developing learner agency.  Students need to have the right mindset in order to take ownership of their learning and make those decision on the best way for them to learn.