TAI 2017

Reading Staff Meeting 11/9

"Good teaching and good decisions are based on high-quality information, not on taken-for-granted assumptions about the causes of children’s reading failure or the worth of new curriculum resources. The quality of information improves when everyone is open to the possibility that what they had previously taken for granted may not stand up to scrutiny. Teachers who are skilled in processes of inquiry can detect weaknesses in their own thinking about practice and help others to do the same." (page 6)
Reading for HOD meeting 28/2

Data collection - use multilevel assessments to collect student data
10Drama -data

• ethnicity
• attendance
• task completion - formative and summative each project 1. Comic routine [set up a chart- share with students - done]
• yr 8& 9 - record on task/completion per lesson in plan book

Term 1: Comic Roles

Rehearse independently to reach the success criteria

• term 1 worked with a checklist of criteria: only  group A followed criteria and groups B & C groups followed some criteria and rehearsed to performance level; group D [all boy/pacifica group improvised in rehearsal and kept changing their piece not developing their ideas.
• only group A continued working as a pair other groups merged, which gave them more confidence and groups B & C developed their work but individuals didn’t meet all the assessment criteria

what worked - checklist was good, all shared a performance with a wider audience

next unit {Musicals}- combined with 10 music, group size firmly limited to 4 maximum; will give checklist again but with set check points to encourge focus and accountability.

New spaces encouraging collaboration with 10Music - who drift to join us and 2 have actively asked to participate in Drama, next term we will work together on the Musicals.

Personalised learning

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/02/16/personalized-learning-action/2/

http://esheninger.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/a-pedagogical-shift-needed-for-digital.html

Te reo homework

using GOOGLE effectively

November Learning
see also Cyber safety resources [workshops for students 1-2 March]

TAI 2017

TAI 2017
see Arts shared google doc.

Developing flexible learning area for performing arts.

High expectations demonstrated in differentiated learning activities.
Project based learning
This is positive propaganda but short on specific catagories.

2017 TAI

How to get students to rehearse independently and bring their project [performance] to completion.
1. Success criteria- broken down per lesson
2. checklist
3. Reflection and evidence on blogs

Creative Excellence

Creativity at HHS

The Maker Movement- A portal of possibility: article filed PDF in DOCS  folder PD resources

• can do attitudes
• messy, collaborative
• more affordable technologies, eg:3-D printers

Most important is the "maker-mindset"; not following step by step instruction but creating using your ideas.[a compass not a map} Has applications to performing art technology, eg: the make-up standard we did in 2016.

Challenges: cost of make-up materials; messiness

Opportunities: self-management of mess; space in dressing room back stage- needs a table and mirrors; seats at correct height ;[later - when new staff facilities built- the shower room could be used too]. 

An Innovative Spin

• focus on setting up environments where constant innovation can occur
• start with relationships of understanding and respect
• trust people and processes
• need clear processes so people feel safe to risk innovations
• collective responsibility for agreed norms [it is the way we do things here]

Perspectives - Dr Linda Bendikson article: high expectations means providing differentiation, choice and high level work for students.

focus-process-results-will-follow-nathan-barber
"What makes this philosophy perhaps both counterintuitive and ironic is this: athletes and teams perform best when their coaches focus on the process and train to mastery, not when their coaches train them to perform. This approach holds huge potential for transforming classrooms."
http://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-press/20161228/281818578493390
Originality cannot be copied