Target Road Staff PD 2018

Assessment for Learning - Staff Meeting March 04, 2018 Using Assessment Data for Learning Questions to ask: (refer to handout from Helen) What understandings did you gain from that data about the learner?  Who did you share the information with?  How have you used the information so far?  What changed for the learner as a result of the information you gathered?  What can you try next?  What feedback will you give to the learner? What can you now write about the learner and their learning? What questions did others ask which challenged you? Jill - two boys are talking and not doing their learning... But  why  are they talking? Are they talking about the task you have set? Summarising Comments If you make a judgement that they're not interested ("they talk on the mat"), your observation needs to be what are they talking about on the mat? Are they talking about the topic at hand or clarifying somet...

Staff Meeting - Julie Mills 19.02.18 February 18, 2018 Identity Poem Name in the centre Arms off to the sides with: What comes in the post?  What it might be wrapped with? What could it be tied together with?  Toys you played with as a child Different landscapes Write your full name and count up the number of letters in your name.  Write any meanings or origins of your name.  Template for below poem taken from: The Janelle Ruth Harris Poem Janelle Ruth Harris is a jumbled newspaper tied with rough brown string. Janelle Ruth Harris is a Cabbage Patch Kid emerging from a garden patch tended distractedly.  Janelle Ruth Harris is a tiny Island happy is isolation. Whenever I peep in mirrors Janelle Ruth Harris glows back at me.  It's optimistically hollow. Janelle Ruth Harris is 17 letters plucked carefully from Hebrew, with meanings originating in friendship and grace. Look here and there...

Staff Meeting 12.02.18 February 11, 2018 Julie Mills SOLO checklist : Are you using this? What does Julie need to focus on for the next session?  Area's I would like to work on are:  SOLO used for WALT's Uses rubrics to show students the What Next? Whanau Meet and Greet If you were to hand out a one page sheet, what would be on that sheet?  A bit about yourself, your contact details and availability School hat requirements and named clothing - EVEN UNDIES! Start time Library time Swimming time Assembly time (whanau are welcome to attend) Helping your child at home/home learning expectations Nude Food/Brain Food What we are learning this term 50th Jubilee and how this relates to our inquiry unit - Are you or do you know any past students? TRS Facebook page and Newsletter Absences Play-Based learning What is vital to your class as opposed to what can be found elsewhere? It needs to be in time, relevant, not too w...

January 25, 2018 Identity Inquiry unit for Term 1 2018 will be based on our 50th Jubilee (celebration to be held in September). We will be looking at the different decades in which the school has been open. Each class will focus on a different decade; Room 14 will be focusing on the 2000's.  Click here  for planning documents. Teaching maths using SOLO Word problems and strategies to solve word problems.  Gives students a simple problem (there are two blackbirds in my class and they eat 3 ladybugs each every day. How many ladybugs do they eat every day?) and they can choose to write down, use materials, etc to solve the problem. Talk to a friend to figure it out if they need to. Julie can see that there are a few who have missed the point but she hasn't stopped the lesson because of that. Sees that a student has solved it using concrete materials (dinosaurs) and asks them to explain how they have solved it.  Strategies: (up to age 8) Gi...

TOD PB4L 31.01.18 January 30, 2018 General Admin Notes Abbi in charge of admin notes this year, taking over from Daisy.  Many of these notes are available to view and expanded upon in the  TOD Admin notes  taken by Abbi. Powhiri 1 February: Be seated in the hall by 9.15am, new students and teachers welcomed followed by a short break where new students and teachers can go into the staff room for a break.  5 February: There will be another Powhiri to welcome students from Ning Bo China (sister school).  Facebook Remember that we are professionals, and certain things on Facebook can be seen by the public and members of our school community. Check your security settings to make sure your profile is as private as possible. Abbi possibly to run a workshop to help people increase their security settings.  Admin Meetings Meetings again on Friday mornings at 8am. Will review again in Term 2. Check whitebo...