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Taking the Leap

Taking the Leap. Global West ICTPD Cluster 2007-2009. Swanson School Birdwood School Sunnyvale School Royal Road School. Lead Teachers. Lead Teacher contacts. Project Team. Director: Bruce McLachlan, Principal, Swanson. Facilitators: Sue West & Robyn Vine

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Taking the Leap

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  1. Taking the Leap Global West ICTPD Cluster2007-2009 Swanson School Birdwood School Sunnyvale School Royal Road School

  2. Lead Teachers Lead Teacher contacts Project Team Director: Bruce McLachlan, Principal, Swanson. Facilitators: Sue West & Robyn Vine Management Team: Principals & Sue West Lead Teachers: From Each School New eyes…

  3. Roles & Responsibilities Management Team • Responsibility for the cluster outcomes • Ensure funding is distributed fairly and accounted for • Close liaison with the MOE national team • Review PD programmes with LTs • Report on achievements/variations New ways…

  4. Roles & Responsibilities Lead Teachers – Open to change • Develop needs analysis of staff and achievable action plans linked to appraisals. • Implement support for staff. • Implement ‘Champion’ book of staff skills. • Provide feed back to ICT facilitators and project facilitator. • Oversee the implementation of school action plans. • Adhere to time lines. • Use indicators from cluster action plan to ensure implementation of key tasks Creativity…

  5. Overview of the national MOE initiatives ICT Community TKI ICT in Schools – MOE Other MOE Initiatives – TDI, etc. Don’t know about that…

  6. What’s this all about? Vision: To provide a powerful and sustainable learning community across the cluster Mission: To empower our learning community through effective professional development that goes beyond application and equipment and into ICT integration, inquiry and thinking skills. Options…

  7. Figure I. Five Levels of Professional Development Evaluation¹ Professional Development Thomas Guskey – What Makes Professional Development Effective? “A couple of years ago, I identified thirteen lists of characteristics of effective professional development that had been assembled by different professional organizations and research groups. In analyzing these lists, I found very little consensus. There wasn't even agreement on the criteria for effectiveness. Some lists were based on the concurrence opinions among researchers, others used teacher self-reports, and only a few looked at impact on student learning. My conclusion was that we may not have a true consensus on what makes professional development effective, and that moving toward one may be more complicated than most people think.” Reference: The Evaluation ExchangeVolume XI, No. 4, Winter 2005/2006 Harvard Family Research Project 2006 http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue32/qanda.html 5 Levels of Professional Development Evaluation New colours…

  8. Why are we doing this? Readiness: Getting children ready for school and getting schools ready for children. ECE Foundations for Discovery Web Tools New Curriculum Face down in the grass…

  9. What do we intend to do? Learning Intentions: Critically reflect on the role of ICT/eLearning in the learning and teaching process Integrate ICT/eLearning within active and authentic learning contexts across the NZ curriculum Strengthen collaboration between schools Face up to the clouds…

  10. Term One - Overview Objectives have come from the proposal with a few extras. Your senior management team has a copy of the overview. There are some days assigned to your school that may want to decide on the content with Sue and Robyn. You may get lost…

  11. Resource-based Learning In our proposal we called this Action Learning. We need a common language, so we have named what we really meant as Resourced-based Learning. Robyn will talk with you about this. Correct answers or creative answers…

  12. Royal Road Learning Intentions Birdwood Sunnyvale Swanson What would be effective in your school? Don’t let imagination lack…

  13. Examples Cows Patterns Tower Fall Argument Mapping Dwarf Dancing Orc Hammerhead, ArtRage etc… Child like eyes …

  14. How would you start a project like this? The road less traveled…

  15. Designing a staff meeting about our project What information would be relevant for you staff? How would you start? Would cues would you use to get everyone onboard?

  16. Designing a staff meeting about our project Continue with designing the staff meeting. What if you get tricky questions?

  17. Global West ICTPD Cluster2007-2009 Do you have any questions or points of interest that you want to discuss about the project? It can’t be done…

  18. Take the Leap

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