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 **Staff Meeting - 1/06/11**      

 **﻿ Milestone 3**  **Goals**

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In Room 9 students are applying the inquiry process to their learning. Students are currently inquiring "How does a garden grow?" As part of the tuning in stage children have accessed their prior knowledge. These have been recorded on the class blog using text and digital photos. ======

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In Room 10 students are developing reflectional skills which will enable them to become life-long 21st Century learners, some of which have been shared on the class blog using text and digital. The format used of these reflections is based on one introduced at the Kath Murdoch professional development day. ======

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In Room 1 students have been developing an understanding of and use of e-learning tools to enhance and support thier critical thinking. Children selected to use powerpoint to share thier Student Led Celebrations. They described thier learning and thought critically about how to describe this and how to set it out and enhance thier slides visually. These students practised with each other and gave and received feedback which helped them to make thier final slides. ======

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In Room 4 students have been using e-learning tools to enhance and support their critical thinking. As part of their reading learning (WALT: infer), e-learning tools were used to support their critical thinking. They were asked to make inferences and use bubbl.us to identify what they thought of Georgia - the main character. Below is an examples that was posted onto the class blog. ======

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In Room 2 students are becoming confident to transfer their ICT capability to new situations. They used a vaiety of ICT skills to prepare and present a powerpoint to reflect on their learning for their student led celebrations. ======

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In Room 3 students are becoming critically aware of their own cybersafety. They have completed lessons 1 and 2 of Hector's World with the remaining lessons being taught throughout the year. An important aspect of learning from these lessons for children was what a 'Privacy Statement' was and what they tell you when you sign up for a sight. This allowed them to be more critical about giving out personal information. ======

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Students are becoming confident at apply thier ICT capability to new situations and are applying the inquiry process to their learning. For example, they applied their knowledge of moviemaker to create a video about a key competency as part of the knowledge synthesis stage in their inquiry "How can we reach our potential?" ======

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In Room 7 meaningful e-learning experiences are being planned for. For example students used digital cameras to take photos of 2D shapes in the school environment as part of the current mathematics strand. Students then reflected using Thinking Hats. ======

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Teachers are implementing ideas gained when participating in professional development led by Kath Murdoch (which the whole cluster attended). In particular they the children have been setting personal goals, reflecting on these and talking to eachother about how they can meet these goals. They have also been collecting their first ideas and collecting these on the inquiry wall. ======

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In the Rooms 1 and 4 teachers are planning e-learning experiences across the curriculum. For example, they are using [|www.studdyladder.co.nz] as part of there literacy and mathematics rotation and are setting tasks at differentiated levels for their students. ======

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In Room 2 the teacher is developing an understanding of using e-learning tools to enhance and support critical thinking and reflective practice. Students used a PMI to reflect on how they worked as a group using the Key Competencies as their success criteria. They then selected an important reflection for them and add this to a WallWisher. The entries on this were then shared as a class. ======

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In Room 3 the teacher is developing an understanding of using e-learning tools to enhance and support critical thinking and reflective practice. VoiceThread has been used on a number of occassions, in conjunction different combinations of the Thinking Hats, to enhance and support reflective and critical thinking. ======

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Ideas from participating in PD with Kath Murdoch (which the whole Cluster attended) have been implemented into the class. A 'Skills Toolbox' has been added to the inquiry wall, with the skills children are taught being added to it. Children have also set Key Competency targets and these are displayed together on the wall. Children then discuss these with each other each week and form a 'support group', giving each other ideas about how to meet thier target. ======

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In Room 5 a range of meaningful e-learning experiences are continously planned for, modelled and used by students across the curriculum. For example, a digital photo of a lion was used to stimulate the collect on nouns and adjectives, which was then used as a stimulus for writing a decription. This was posted on the class blog using **scribd**. ======

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E-learning is also integrated to support the inquiry process. For example as part of the tuning in for the inquiry "How can we reach our potential?", children watched Space Jam. ** Fotobabble ** was used to support this tuning in stage with children recording inital thoughts about the characters. ======

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 * 4 . Investigate, develop and implement ways to involve Family/Whanau in order to actively participate in and celebrate students learning success. **======

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The principal has used profesional readings (e.g. []) and investigation to implement new ways to involve Family/Whanau to actively participate in and celebrate students learning using facebook. ======

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To encourage more parents to leave comments on the Class Blog, so that they are celebrating and reflecting with their children about their learning, parents were given a "workshop" about why leaving comments can be beneficial to the students learning and how to leave comments on the class blog. ======

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To follow on from this in the Senior Team, as part of the children's homework the parents were given a "Parent Challenge" to visit the class blog and leave a comment. ======

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During TeKids sessions on Monday students are making choices about what the most appropriate e-learning tools to use are. This can be seen in the different ways children have chosen to present their reserach in the Term 2, Week 2 session. ======

The key competencies have been developed through TeKids sessions with each group reflecting on those they have developed each session.
http://mantartekids.wikispaces.com/Session+Group+Reflections

**Staff Meeting 22/02/11 - Cluster Goals, Teacher Inquiry into Practice, Cybersafety**
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 * Staff Meeting 29/03/11 - Integrating ICT QLC and Writig Teacher Inquiry into Practice**
 * Staff Meeting 13/04/11 - Custom Google Search**
 * Kath Murdoch Inquiry Day and Staff Meeting**
 * Staff Meeting 10/05/11 - Developing a Thinking Toolbox**
 * Mentoring Junior Team - Term 2**