Notes+from+May+5th

 **Notes from today**

Conversations about systems, processes, new thinking, new ways of working, access to new tools...in our personal lives and at school


 * Great changes and developments to cluster website. Great logo, look, feel. Cluster has ownership
 * Online access to material like Youtube, on-going conversations
 * Digital citizenship module released 10th May>
 * Westbrook aha moment, four interactive whiteboards arrived, sharing how to use, plan with it
 * [|Interactive whiteboard online seminar in ICT PD Online]
 * [|Whiteboard discussions in Virtual staffroom]
 * [|Ideas to inspire - Interactive whiteboards]
 * More release time for lead teachers needed for sandpit time and to support other teachers in the classroom
 * Using digital data (music, images) in the assembly hall, bring multi-media into the school
 * Students being used as experts, tech angels
 * Good news story - principals relating to classroom practice related to e-learning
 * Principals need to be proactively involved in this contract
 * 10 mins into every staff meeting (perhaps some not working), let's try e-learning tip, workshops
 * On-going conversations about this are needed, optional workshops
 * Focus on student learning outcomes, narrators, oral literacy and then provide a workshop on the tools that would enable this to happen. EG try the wiki on Top ten ideas with links to software, web 2.0 tools.
 * The contract is a whole-school development programme
 * Staff meeting on literacy, relating new learning to principal inquiry, literacy learning intentions, links to SOLO taxonomy
 * Being very clear on learning intentions
 * Teachers using SOLO language and students using it too, wow and real aha moments
 * Minutes of meetings are written and added before meetings and then discussed
 * Possibly use more efficient ways to enable staff meetings to free up more time for other teacher professional learning and development
 * New cellphone, connected, personal organiser for more efficient ways of working
 * Google docs, instant messaging very important for families
 * SOLO development at Westbrook, Sunset and Glenholme
 * Solo taxonomy, developed some school values on rubric, key competencies. Some very rigorous unpacking of values and KCs
 * SOLO taxonomy planning templates for grammar, fluency, self correction etc brainstormed with kids
 * Started introducing SOLO through visual map, brainstormed (respect) with post-it notes. Got main ideas, co-constructed rubrics
 * Introduced SOLO language, symbols, learning outcomes, and one simple way of using SOLO in their term plan
 * Possibly visit Xroads cluster in Hamilton (got great ideas from cluster network meeting)
 * SOLO and teacher continuum - taken directly from [|HOT SOLO EFFECTIVE PEDAGOGY RUBRIC.pdf] at http://hooked-on-thinking.wikispaces.com/Effective+Pedagogy Pam Hook and Julie Mills have also unpacked other areas of effective pedagogy against SOLO.


 * ICTs as learning interventions

// BES # 7. Curriculum goals, resources including ICT usage, task design, teaching and school practices are effectively aligned. // // Curricular alignment: The use of resources, teaching materials and ICT is aligned with curriculum goals to optimise student motivation and accomplish instructional purposes and goals. //

// Pedagogical strategies are evaluated in relation to curricular goals. // || I know that using ICTs aligned with curriculum goals can optimise student motivation to achieve learning goals, but I am not confident I know how to provide these opportunities in terms of my classroom practice. || When planning my teaching and learning activities I use ICTs to help motivate students to achieve learning goals. |||| When planning my teaching and learning activities I first identify my learning goals and then select ICTs to help motivate students to achieve learning goals. However, when the use of these ICTs fails to motivate students to achieve learning goals I don’t know how I should do things differently. || When planning my teaching and learning activities I first identify specific proximal and hierarchical learning goals coded against SOLO Taxonomy, and then select ICTs to help motivate students to achieve these learning goals. I identify success criteria for the use of these ICTs that align with specific learning outcomes. || When planning my teaching and learning activities I first identify specific proximal learning goals coded against SOLO Taxonomy, and then select ICTs to help motivate students to achieve these learning goals. I identify success criteria for the use of these ICTs that align with specific learning outcomes. I seek student and peer feedback to better inform the use of ICTs to enhance the conditions of value for identified specific, proximal and hierarchical learning outcomes. ||

**Where to from here?**


 * Can we please share digital copies of any SOLO development
 * You can upload word files into this wiki. Use the [[image:Picture_3.png]]button in the edit panel.
 * Pay for SOLO professional learning resources with cluster funds
 * If anyone is buying anything, could we discuss it amongst ourselves as a cluster for bulk buying power
 * For more ideas on Blogs and wikis, go to http://learningweb2.wikispaces.com/, and for learning how to Investigate ways to edit/create wikis. http://gbwikiideas.wikispaces.com/
 * Share our blogs, online resources with each other with a link on the left-hand side
 * [|Blogging and Key Competencies]


 * How would we like our school leaders to get on-board with ICT PD?**
 * We want distributed leadership, we will help to lead this
 * We need to see school leaders as a proactive part of this journey
 * We want to see some support, want to see input as a priority
 * We would all like to access leadership incentives - such as Viviene Robinson in Rotorua (find out dates, costs and plan for attendance)
 * Contact Trevor Bond to work with school leaders []
 * Maybe contact Mike Scaddon and school leaders
 * Need support with strategic planning development
 * Invited to be part of e-learning professional learning meetings within our own schools to be approached by lead teachers)
 * Nancy to identify these needs and speak with school leaders about where to from here
 * Invite leaders to May 11th meeting, Sunset
 * Invite leaders to May 19th, Tuesday SOLO as Westbrook, 1.30-3.30pm (each lead teacher to ask and then Nancy to follow up with cluster email)
 * Meeting May 26th, engaging reluctant students
 * Teacher only day 4th June

More funding assigned to individual schools for teacher release Each school will think though how much time, dates, how many teachers and send invoices through to Nancy for teacher release.
 * What do we know how to do?**
 * Podcasting
 * Blogging
 * SOLO templates and how to plan with students
 * Slideshows (Photopeach, Animoto)
 * Who could share:**
 * Trish Dender
 * Annemarie
 * Rellco cluster teachers
 * Westbrook teachers to share and launch today at 3.30pm (5th May).
 * Westbrook teachers to share and launch today at 3.30pm (5th May).


 * What do we need to know how to do?**
 * look at milestone reporting requirements


 * How can we do the things we need to do? Together?**