Big Picture Inquiry Planning for 2020

On Thursday, we had time to think big picture about Inquiry Learning next year.

Here is the brainstorm from the senior team:

Here is the brainstorm from the junior team:

Sparking Passions for PLD Leadership: Thinking ahead to 2020

PLD 2020

PLD 2020 will look different. We want to tie all threads together by Learner Agency. This will begin with Teacher Agency. We are inviting all staff to examine purpose, inspiration and the things you are passionate about teaching and learning.

All staff will have leadership opportunities, delivering professional learning around an area of passion. Underneath the work will be a robust research project/ TAI which is likely to last for most of the year and will inform all staff around best practice or improvement in a chosen area. We are envisioning doing this in pairs/ teams.

PLD sessions will be delivered in chunks. 4- 8 sessions in succession. We are aiming to do less in more depth. Areas to consider are Reading, Writing and Maths (a given) and Positive Education, Learner Agency and Cultural Responsiveness. This is to get us thinking! Voice, choice, PURPOSE, engagement…

Today we began to generate ideas for next year. We started the meeting with a walk to appreciate our place.

The best ideas come when we aren't trying to think of them... They often come when:

-Walking
-Running
-Traveling (airplanes, airports, trains, buses)
-Falling Asleep or Waking Up
-In Conversation with Friends
-Listening to Audiobooks or Podcasts
-Showering

Flourish Model and the Hero's Journey

Ximena also led a starter about how teaching activates each area of our Wellbeing...

Here are some of our initial thoughts about leading and learning linked to our 2020 business plan and strategic goals:

Number Talks Planning and Discourse

We have set goals around our levels of discourse in the Maths Classroom. We will come back to these at team meetings on September 4th. 

Reading and Writing Monday 5th and Thursday 8th August

Beginning the Internal Evaluation: 

What makes an effective literacy programme? 

Learn it... Live it... Teach it... Embed it! Meeting Thurs, Week 8, Term 2

Lerner Agency - Motivation and Self- efficacy through Story Hui

For any learner, the motivation to learn is influenced by the belief in our abilities to be successful. 

As the continuum below shows, the more learners understand that learning will bring challenge and use a growth mindset to embrace it, the more that motivation to learn grows. 

At the same time, we need to develop the metacognition to spot our strengths and successes so we can build on our self-belief to be successful learners.

Teachers are learners too!

As teachers, every time we try something new in our practice we begin a learning journey. For this session, we looked at how our belief in our ability- self-efficacy- can influence our motivation to engage in learning and teaching through specific actions. We used Story Hui to share the experience of an action that has had a positive impact on a learner. This helped us to unpack the learning journey and celebrate the strengths and successes of the storytellers.

Link to our EGC reflections

Inquiry Planning (where to next)

Junior Team
Change

T2- We change the world to meet our needs. We have all arrived from someplace then have added and adapted to our environment. We can learn from each other to create positive change
Celebration
T3- Is our technology changing the world for the better?
Looking at change over time of technology and how that affects the environment and our own wellbeing. How can we have positive purpose?
Trash into treasure
Celebration--different atua to illustrate through music--Tawhirimatea, Tangaroa, Ruamoko, Ranginui, Tane Mahuta
QR codes attached with stories
Communication ….. Positive change, positive strengths of people
Looking at everyday items


Senior Team
Change: The future - What kind of future do we want? What are we aiming for?
School
Community
Care for others
Self, school, community, local, national, global
Technology: Materials, to make Pou
Digital Tech to aide/assist (rather than lead) A digital sheep? Or wolf?
Producers and consumers?
Passive or active?
Tech advantages and disadvantages

Pou: Knitting street art
Jenny

Stencils, cut outs
Story telling:
Us and them, the evil other, Illegal Alien

Celebrating TAIs and UDL Walkthrough 10th June

Teachers shared TAIs in teams and discussed where to next.

We did a UDL walk through of all of the teaching spaces. We discussed what visual tools we have put in place to support our students. 

Music: Composition using Garage Band

Cultural Responsiveness: Extending the Pepeha

Pepeha Template

Connecting the Dots

Overarching Goals that run through all PLD

Raise student achievement

IMPROVE TAI - ROBUST TAI cycle, measurable etc , narrowed focus , timebound etc

Increased teacher assessment capability through formative assessment, moderation etc

Strengthen/improve teacher understanding in all PLD areas.

Also see: PLD Goals Summary

Inquiry Learning: Parent Workshop

On 4th April, we held a parent workshop on Inquiry Learning.

Purpose of workshops:

• to show that Inquiry is authentic and is about deep thinking

• to unpack the Inquiry process
• to encourage conversations about learning to continue at home.

Positive Teaching Practices/ Institute of Positive Education

• Overview of positive psychology drawing specific links to how the emerging science can inform and underpin best-practice pedagogy.
• Exploring key research and the impact of positive relationships, positive accomplishments, positive emotions, positive health, positive engagement, positive purpose and the character strengths. 

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Jigsaw Activity: Research about positive emotions