Target Road Staff PD 2018

Staff Meeting - Growth Coaching 7.05.18 May 06, 2018 COL Inquiry model Will be presenting in groups end of Term 3 on our teacher inquiries to the COL using the below model: Recording evidence The following table may help to display steps taken towards achieving your goal. Can be displayed in a different format. Can contain readings, observations, anecdotes; anything that assists in achieving your goal. Growth Coaching Model Videos of Daisy conferencing with Melody and Krysta doing a Growth Coaching session. Observations of the video: Often rephrases what Melody has said back to her to confirm ideas. Exhausts different ways of improving practice; what is another idea of how you could achieve your goal? "You've got some really good ways forward. Out of those things, what will you do?" Growth Coach is recording ideas as they progress. When will you begin? How many students will you conference with each day? Would you say within 2 weeks you c...

Term 2 - Admin Notes in admin minutes The thing that uses your brain more than anything else is conversation. What is it that you do that engages more of the brain than anything else? Face to face interaction. They call the 1990s the decade of the brain - brain scanning technology. 300 years of information in one decade - “How brainy you are” has way less to do with your genes and more to do with the data you gather in first 1000 days of your life. If it was genetic - name a family that has more than one genius??? It’s generally a good thing to be the first born There are genes for hair colour, eye colour - there are no specific genes that are responsible for intelligence Scientists can predict your income by the amount of words your primary caregiver speaks to you in your first 1000 days A parent stay at home for the first year of life - biggest step towards resiliency factors Dyadic Relationships Not always possible to develop dyadic relations...

Review Identity What worked well? Identity Art TRS through the ages (school) Literacy links well Celebrating differences Didn't get to: Decades (60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's) School Identity Student led inquiry groups students belonged to What didn't work well and why: Time: felt unit was too large Extra things to fit into term, e.g. swimming Too many decades to cover: prefer to cover 60's and now, compare and contrast the two. Might have been better if each team were in charge of looking into one decade rather than people in random year levels. If we didn't get to it and it didn't work well, we have to look at why we didn't get to it and how we can get around this to give our students more opportunities to learn through the curriculum concept via the reading, writing and maths. Goals for next time: Define map before unit, and define map at the end of the unit. Vocabulary for lear...

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...