Monday 24 February 2020

Targets and what next... Teacher Agency

Planning and next steps for target groups.

We completed an activity in teams around Effective Literacy and Numeracy practice - Big picture planning

Senior Team:


Junior Team:


We know our target students and are shaping our programmes to meet the needs of our learners. PLD for 2020 will come from what our students need. We want to lead Student Agency by modelling Teacher Agency. 

Monday 17 February 2020

Sustainability

Sustainability - this session was around revisiting where we left off, sharing our Sustainability goals for 2020 and getting some actions off the ground.

Monday 10 February 2020

Goal Setting 2020


What’s the point of goal setting?

Channel passions and energy
Martin Seligman’s PERMA- just like our SPIRE - A for achievement, Positive Purpose……..
Achievements are required for us to feel masterful in our environments and in our lives, it’s about finding meaning.

4 Critical Functions:

1.Goals direct our attention, both cognitively and behaviourally, toward what matters.

2.Goals energise people, and difficult goals are more energising than easy goals or no goals.

3.Goals impact persistence, and hard goals particularly impact persistence because they prolong effort - impacts performance

4.Goals lead to the discovery of our skills and resources


Self-efficacy- self belief- that you can! ( Albert Bandura- remember those mastery experiences!)

Necessary to cultivate grit and flourish emotionally.

Bandura discovered that there are 4 ways to build self-efficacy

  1. Have  a good stress response
  2. Be near someone or have a role model who has accomplished the goal you want to accomplish
  3. Have a significant person around you who has faith in your abilities
  4. Have mastery experiences of accomplishing smaller goals that set the stage of accomplishment of larger goals

SMARTER GOALS

With Children’s goals- What’s worked in the past? What’s made it work? Highlights?

Owned and understood, alive
What we have influence over at school

What hasn’t worked so well?

Come back to Year 6 leavers profile
Whole child philosophy SPIRE, FLOURISH
Curriculum

Written reporting- messages that sends

What could goals cover that align to this then?

How many are realistic?

Sometimes may have  a bigger goal with kaizen steps…….

How will they be measurable?

Accountability

Must be built in- helps ensure we do what we say we will do. 
Written goals drives commitment

What accountability measures do we already have in place?

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Staff Only Day 2: 1 Day Wananga

Kia ora to John and Suz for leading our 1 day Wananga.

Link to Wananga Slides

We learnt about significant places, stories and history of our area. We all met at Churchill Park and walked along the beach, listening to some significant stories. We walked to Te Pa o Oruaiti and across the top.


We strengthened our knowledge of Pōwhiri.

We developed an understanding of kawa and tikanga
We worked together to develop school wide processes that align with kawa and tikanga with a focus on mihi, karakia, manaakitanga, whakawhanaungatanga.
  • classroom
  • meetings and ways of working 
  • events and opportunities