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

Parent Evening Planning- Tues 11th Sept and Mon 17th September

We started Tuesday with a reading from Scott and Ximena: 

We begun to plan for our parent evening in our teams. 

Breakdown of evening

Word cloud (Ximena, QR Code or Tiny URL)
When you were at school, what did Maths mean for you? 

Sorting into 4 groups (Suz)

Jude introduction

4 workshop rotation:



In last rotation parents answer question: For your children, what does Maths learning look like at Worser Bay?






Thanks Suz for Pos Ed starter:

We connected to Ranginui and Papatūanuku through our Pos Ed Started today :-)

The Five Ways to Wellbeing will help inspire and motivate your students to:
Connect with Ranginui/Sky Father and Papatūānuku/Earth Mother
Keep Learning about and Māori ancestral knowledge and our New Zealand history
Take Notice of the natural world and everything within it, including ourselves.

Maths Moderation

Shona and Gabrielle presented their reading: Aligning Assessment with Brain Science by Jo Boaler

 

Maths PLD: Overview, 1st July 2018

Imagine you are going to a Maths conference: What are the titles of the workshops you will go to?


We are all working through the Stanford Online Jo Boaler Course: How to teach Math. Here is a summary of what we have implemented so far.

Matariki/ Mahutonga

Tautoru



Autahi



Hunches

We shared some hunches and asked staff to evaluate.

Goals/ Actions from discussion about Jo Boaler Course

Writing- Session 6

We got into our Jigsaw groups and shared what we have learnt from our readings. We did presentations to our group.

Suz, Scott- Alison Davis- Chapter 4, Different writing instruction

Alison Davis- Chapter 4, Different writing instruction

Nic, Gabrielle- Jo Boaler/ Growth Mindset and Assessment

John, Gillian - What do writers say good writing?

Ximena, Anna  - Effective writing (Murray Gadd)



Shona, Susie - Teachers as readers and writers (apologies)

Teacher Only Day 1: TED Talks

Welcome back everyone! A new and exciting year for lots of growth and learning...

Today we all had a chance to share a TED-type talk with each other- anything goes under 'Educating for the Future'

Jude started the day with a session called Know thyself and be thyself where we were able to explore our passions in our personal and professional lives and how we can use these in our teams. 

Nicola and Ximena spoke about Number Talks and how this has a big impact on student outcomes. 

Gabrielle spoke to us all about resilience and how we can teach this to our students. 

Susie talked about Positive Purpose, what she has been researching and how she has been focusing on this when working with her students in Tautoru. 

Anna discussed the importance of getting students moving. You can read her notes here.

Cloe spoke about the changes that she has been making, moving away from a traditional way of teaching to a focus on Positive education. She compared this process to Metamorphosis.

Suz shared the learning that she has done with David Keane and how this has helped her to be present in her professional and personal life and the importance of working in Quadrant 2. 

Hayley spoke about ‘Heroic Recovery’ and the benefits of working together to try new things accept challenges and reflect together.

John talked us through the model of the Hero's Journey and how students can relate to the characters. 

Gillian talked about the importance of language. She said, "I spoke about the power of language, looking at both our internal and external language. I looked at the power of the words we think to create our realities and the words we speak to affect those around us. With little words like yet, we can change a statement from one of despair, "I can't do it," to one of hope "I can't do it yet!" The words we speak can change our mindsets and those around us. Let's use our words to make better worlds for ourselves and for our learners!"

Scott shared his thoughts about the Environment and why it is important that our learners take action!

Therese and James  (Masters of Teaching and Learning students) spoke about teachers and people who inspired them connecting this to what kind of teachers they would like to be in the classroom. 

Shona showed us some valuable resources for students for English Language Learners:

Steph shared ideas about communication and how we connect with our parents- not always easy!