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<span style="font-size: small;">Due to the organiser's illness, this event has been postponed. Keep an eye on Twitter (#educampSelwyn) and Facebook (#ChchED) for updates.</span> <br />
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On Sunday 3 September, Rolleston College is hosting an EduCamp - the first one on the Selwyn District! This is a great chance for some <b>FREE</b> professional learning and sharing, as well as an opportunity to see one of Canterbury's newest campuses.<br />
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The day starts with a tour of Rolleston College at 10am, followed by morning tea and a chance to mix and mingle. At 11am, the quickfire SmackDown will start in the staffroom, followed by the first "unconference" session.<br />
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After lunch (not provided, but many of the attendees are going to the Pedal Pusher in Farringdon), there are two more unconference sessions. The aim is to wind up before 3pm. Being Father's Day, attendees are encouraged to come and go as suits them and their family commitments.<br />
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Matt Nicollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01425549774267107543noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-12286310316102206482017-08-04T10:11:00.003+12:002017-08-04T10:11:55.261+12:00Robocup Junior<b id="docs-internal-guid-64c92951-aa24-c5a2-2fdf-827b23658df4" style="font-weight: normal;"></b><br />
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Today like so many New Zealanders I watched an ANZAC ceremony paying respect and remembering NZ (and Australian) soldiers who fought in wars over the last 100yrs.</div>
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In Wellington at Pukeahu National War Memorial Park<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">,</span></span> four young women read two poems that captured the essence of today. Yes it is probably true that English teachers "trot out" their favourite war poems at the end of Term 1 or the beginning of Term 2 - <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47380">Flanders Field</a> or <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46560">Dulce et Decorum est.</a></div>
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However, the growing number of New Zealanders, especially young New Zealanders who visit Anzac Cove or attend Anzac day ceremonies around the country show that it is seen as a significant day. And yes, I am one of those English teachers who shares WW1 poetry with my classes around the date of ANZAC day. </div>
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The notes behind a song that seem<br />
Another song, a different dream –<br />
The past we harvest that was yours,<br />
The present that you gave for ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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own<br />
And left behind, and what was said<br />
To husband, father, lover, son,<br />
Are stories that were lost instead,<br />
That ran to darkness where you bled –<br />
Are what we owe you, we who say<br />
'See morning in its usual way<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bright<br />
Day broadening on the river,<br />
The warmth of cities wakening, the sight<br />
Of roads ahead and doors forever<br />
Onto families, friends, whatever<br />
Life allows us, one another –<br />
What we have and you do not, our brother.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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That draw you to the unguessed tomb,<br />
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To us as once to you, from<br />
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‘Now and forever, home is good'.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 160%;">Sourced from </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.nzojis.co.nz/uploads/76603/files/The_Tomb_of_the_Unknown_Warrior.pdf">The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior - TeToma o te Toa Matangaro </a></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-27902279082417825412017-04-19T10:24:00.001+12:002017-04-19T10:28:05.755+12:00Edu Ignite ChristchurchRead all about the latest Eduignite held at Haeata early April. Thanks to Sue McLachlan for this blog- also posted at Sue's <a href="http://suemcled.blogspot.co.nz/2017/04/eduignite-3rd-april-2017.html">My Education Blog</a><br />
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<span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">EduIgnite is new thing for me. I read more about it on </span><a href="https://emergingleaders.school.nz/ignite-evening/" style="color: #b5653b; font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this site</a><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;"> and was excited about attending my first evening. Speakers are given 5 minutes to get through 20 slides and share their ideas. This was the first EduIgnite for #ChchEd this year and was held at Haeata Community Campus. A lovely spread of drinks and nibbles was provided beforehand (thanks to Mark Osborne form Core-Ed and Emerging Leaders) </span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">which gave us the opportunity to chat with other educators. I know I made a great contact with someone in that first 30 minutes and I recommend that you turn up early to the next one (follow #EduigniteChch). Andy Kai Fong opened the evening then everyone introduced themselves. Many connections were made, and there were a few laughs as we went around. These are my notes, so my apologies for any mistakes and sometimes disjointed comments. The 5 minutes goes past very quickly and my typing skills are not that fast so I hope I got all the information right. For those that spoke, please feel free to add in the comments below if I missed anything!</span><br />
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Tara O'Neill (@Aratoneill) - A case for play</h3>
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Play allows for curiosity and for relationships to be built. If students don't play and be curious they get turned off learning. In playbased learning, the child learns through their own effort rather than being directed.<br />
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Play is the child's natural way of learning skills and teacher direction needs to be learnt at the right stage.</div>
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Motivation = autonomy + a sense of competence</div>
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She talked about a student who didn't know purpose of writing. One of the learning scenarios she talked about was playing firemen and the students took notes after a fire callout. A good example of the purpose.</div>
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To do this we need to be providing a playbased learning environment plus integrate learning, for example using a student biking and doing skids turned into a maths lesson by using the skids and deciding which is longer and estimating lengths.</div>
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One book she mentioned was <i>Free to Learn</i> by Peter Gray and I managed to find <a href="http://www.bc.edu/sites/libraries/facpub/gray-free/book.pdf" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this pdf </a> of it which I will have a read of later.</div>
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During the short changeover, someone asked about what was needed to teach this way. You need to see learning in what children are doing and find the learning within it. It is a different way of approaching learning, not standing in front and delivering. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">When asked about when we should move on from play-based learning, Tara explained that we still all play, with our gardening and our hobbies.</span></div>
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Matt Nicoll (@mattynicoll) - Proof</h3>
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set up a site with video evidence, synopsis and pictures of the crime scene. They used SOLO rubric and did reflective writing. They used Padlet for exploring the learning they wanted. Could they find people to run things? Used SOLO to get down to specifics like fingerprinting. Staff wrote a new crime scene - what next? Crime scene, murder mystery? Used SOLO Assessment rubric. They wanted students to solve a crime using evidence, be collaborative and write about this. Only problem they had was in finding mentors for students.</div>
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Matt kindly shared his <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oXr3dwLaHHtNtQxbcTKygXzmh_i2927Gd7RIhAheel4/edit#slide=id.p" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">slide deck </a>on Twitter.</div>
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Tom Bijesse - Code club</h3>
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<a href="http://www.codeclub.nz/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Code Club Aoteoroa</a> is a nationwide network of after school coding clubs. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Volunteers run it - some are developers who know how to write code, not always the best teachers, but they learn from each other.</span></div>
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They learn Scratch, HTML/CSS, Python, and Sense Hat (Raspberry PI). <span style="font-size: 11pt;">They also use <a href="http://csunplugged.org/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">CSUnplugged</a>.</span></div>
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I liked the explanation of the Emotional Learning curve where they start at the top thinking they will be able to make <a href="http://www.xbox.com/en-NZ/games/halo-5-guardians" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Halo</a> then go to the bottom when they realise they can't make Halo, then rise to the top again when they realise they can make <a href="http://thesimplearcade.com/play/snake.html" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Snake</a>.</div>
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Most of their projects are from the UK but they have one in Scratch to teach Matariki which looks great.</div>
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Would you recommend it for teachers - yes</div>
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Codeclub.nz - yes you can volunteer/ yes you can host one - put venue on the website. They can help recruit. Kids can join as well.</div>
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Mondays 4-5.30 New Brighton library</div>
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Tues 4-5.30 Upper Riccarton Library</div>
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Wed 4-5 Halswell Library</div>
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Here is the <a href="http://bit.ly/CC4T-CHCH" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">link to the flyer</a> for the Code Club 4 Teachers courses in term 2 a<span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">nd the </span><a href="http://techweek.co.nz/whats-on/2017/pd-code-club-211/" style="color: #b5653b; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">link to a Tech Week event</a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> - an info session on Code Club 4 Teachers, being held at Haeata</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> or you can email Tom at </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">tom@codeclub.co.nz</span></div>
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Lex Davis (@lexynz) - NCEA in FLEs</h3>
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NCEA is silo heaven - trapped in one for years. I liked his slide when he had a beanbag in the middle of the room to show the change to modern environments with the title: MLE/FLS/ILE/FLE/LOL.</div>
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Seen many schools in the last 6 months:</div>
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Templestowe College - doing amazing things in some areas, then they have classes for their assessments separate.</div>
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Hobsonville - amazing - big rocks and small rocks to get through</div>
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Rototuna - cross curricular modular based learning</div>
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How do we want to run at Haeata? NCEA is the spanner in the works. Constrained by qualifications and the more walls we build, the more complex it becomes. Want to push down the walls. Want individuality. How do we manage the admin of NCEA?</div>
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V1.0 - tried a careers based module system. </div>
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V1.1 - broke learning and standards into kete so they could pick up and go</div>
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V2.0 - portrayed by the harakeke - versatile. Long and short courses. Self-management is an issue - we want them to, they don't want to - they love classes.</div>
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External Providers - have lots at our fingertips and we need to create relationships with them.</div>
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Communicating this to whanau - they are scared, need to assure them that we are authentic and credible.</div>
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Early days, nice to share our journey.</div>
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Karyn Gray (@karyngra) - Changes</h3>
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We know serious changes are needed in our system. We know there is a culture of assessment learning in schools. Need to change. What is success - in life not in school and grades. To get from one form of success to another is a great leap. <span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dispositional curriculum - are we modelling that?</span></div>
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Every assessment procedure should match your purpose. Sometimes schools do assessment driven work.</div>
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Need to show leadership and have a sense of urgency. If we all stand up and stand together we can change. We join groups and get involved. Twitter is educational - huge amount of contacts and information from Twitter - I agree with Karyn that Twitter is the best PD I could ever ask for. If you are not part of it, you should seriously join. Check out #EdChatNZ, #ChchEd. #eduignitechch and if you are up early #bfc630nz (or if you are like me and can't make 6.30a.m., you can read it later!).</div>
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In Korepo (one of Haeata's hapori) a different teacher is blogging every week. We have a responsibility to do this and share our practice. As leadership we need to encourage people to move out of their comfort zone. We need to challenge people on why school should be the same as it was 20 yrs ago.</div>
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She left us with this quote (of which I found many slightly different versions and 2 different authors attributed so spent time trying to find the original - hoping this is it!)</div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;">It's too high!</span></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="posted-on" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Cross-blogged with permission. Originally posted on <a href="https://savilleblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/27/impatience/" rel="bookmark" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit; color: #e8554e; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: 0.2s;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-03-27T22:10:05+00:00" style="box-sizing: inherit;">March 27, 2017</time></a></span><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: inline;"> by Steve Saville, Principal, Rolleston College Horoeka Haemata.</span></div>
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It was a damp Sunday last weekend and with no Premier league on this weekend it was a perfect time to catch up on some of the articles that have come into my Twitter account recently.</div>
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The first one was an article titled, <span style="box-sizing: inherit;">“Re- Imagine Space For Learning” by Alastair Blyth. As I am the principal of a new secondary school this was a topic that was of particular interest to me. The debate about the functionality of flexible learning spaces in schools continues to rage in New Zealand, to the point where we often seem to be focused on the buildings and not what is happening within them.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">There was nothing in the article that I could disagree with, far from it, I was in total agreement with all that Blyth said. Statements like the following made perfect sense to me.</span></div>
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<em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">“Accommodation no longer consists of uniform classrooms, each equipped with thirty desks, a teacher’s dais and blackboard. Standard classrooms give way to a variety of spaces… Space for work in small groups, for discussions, for seminars, space for independent study and investigation.”</em></div>
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The comments around the importance of using all spaces in a multi-functional way also resonated. The need to see the canteen and corridors as legitimate learning environments is something that I personally feel very strongly about. Learning can and must take place anywhere and everywhere.</div>
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As I am working in a purpose built physical environment that offers a wide range of learning spaces to accommodate a wide range of learning environments and expediences, this was an article that I could easily relate to.</div>
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The next article I read was Dr Lucy Hone’s column published in the <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Sunday Star Times</em> magazine. I have been fortunate enough to hear Dr Hone speak recently and was profoundly moved by her words, especially those comments relating to the responsibility we all have to ensure and maintain the well being of our children, so I read anything she writes with interest.</div>
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This weeks article was on the concept of <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Grit,</em> a concept that is currently a hot topic in education circles. The article talks about grit as being defined as passion, purpose and perseverance. It talks about emphasising the importance of showing up on time, working diligently, sticking with the task even when it gets tough, being respectful and handling honest and sometimes critical feedback. All of these are ways that an individual develops the grit necessary to have the strength to face challenges.</div>
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No argument there. Much of what we did at Rolleston College in our first few weeks was designed specifically to ensure that our learners were in a safe and supportive environment where they could be encouraged to develop their perseverance or grit.</div>
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Back to Twitter then and an article written by Shelley Wright.</div>
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Again all of what she said struck a chord, especially when she talked about how important it is that young people d<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">iscover what they are passionate about while they are at school. That they should discover that they can make a difference now. That they should leave school knowing what the are good at not just whether they are good at school [or not].</span></div>
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She went on to claim that that as they grow young people lose their natural sense of curiosity and how they need to;</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">constantly ask and be asked three questions. What are you going to learn? How are you going to learn? How are you going to show what you’re learning?</span></li>
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Nothing here that could not be taken directly from our school vision and values statements.</div>
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So far so good, The next article was a report of comments made by Mark Cuban, b<span style="box-sizing: inherit;">illionaire software developer and owner of the Dallas Mavericks.</span></div>
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The essence of what he was saying was that as computers become increasingly sophisticated an increasing number of what we see as occupations will disappear. To the extent, he argues that the key skill that will be in demand in the world of work in the near future is that of <em style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">creative thinking</em>. This is where he says that some of the ‘creative thinking’ areas such as the learning of languages or studying philosophy will become increasingly relevant for the type of thinking and creativity mind sets that they develop.</div>
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Cuban argues that we need to be aware that, “community building and creative thinking to create social impact,” are going to be increasingly important in the workplace.</div>
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Again no argument from me, I have long advocated the need to develop and foster creative thinking in schools.</div>
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Moving on then to <b style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 400;">Christiaan Henny and an article claiming that traditional academic content focussed learning is an inefficient and ineffective way of enhancing learning. Henny identifies the following nine factors that will shape education in the near future.</span></b></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;">9 Things That Will Shape The Future of Education.</b></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Free choice</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Project based</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Field experience</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Data Interpretation</span></li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Exams will change completely</span></li>
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Yet again this article is synonymous with the way we are delivering learning through our three learning vehicles at Rolleston College.</div>
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All of this should have filled me with an inner warmth on an increasingly grey morning. Surprisingly it didn’t, in fact it left me feeling quite annoyed.</div>
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So why did a series of articles and reports that only supported the educational direction of Rolleston College cause such annoyance?</div>
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The theories all make perfect sense, they are rational, logical and similar to the straight line on the left of this diagram. The reality on the floor is a little messier though. It involves people, limited hours, administration and bureaucracies. In short real life is a tangled line.</div>
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I am by nature an impatient person, in the words of Freddy Mercury, “I want it all and I want it now.”</div>
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So the tangled line, that is the real path to success means that after eight weeks everything is not perfect and not every question has been answered. Having the patience to work through this tangle is ultimately what was annoying me.</div>
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This though is our reality, smooth seas never made a great sailor and nothing worthwhile is easy so every time I feel impatient, frustrated or annoyed I have learnt to sit down, calm down and reflect.</div>
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Time then to reflect on what I had seen in the last week or so as I had visited learners, escorted visitors and generally wandered around the various learning spaces. What had I seen?</div>
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On Friday I was sitting in one of our meeting rooms in a cluster meeting with local primary school principals. From my seat I could look down one of our circulation corridor areas and watch with interest one of our teachers on her hands and knees in the corridor with a group of learners also working measuring , cutting, assembling, and racing backwards and forwards totally engrossed in a learning activity that was obviously something to do with Maths. Every part of me wanted to race out there and see exactly what they were doing but I didn’t, I just smiled as I observed how learning can take place anywhere. So this is what Blyth means when he refers to the multi functionality of space.</div>
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Later in the day I sat with three learners in the coding class. it would have been easy to be impressed by the web page that one of these 13 year olds had developed, animations almost jumped out of the screen, it looked professional and aesthetically well designed. What was more impressive though was listening to how she guided her peers through their web design whilst continuing to work on her own project. Here was a fully functioning team, each working on their own projects but where one ‘expert’ could assist and guide.</div>
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A first hand example of academic mentoring.</div>
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Minutes later I heard a conversation between a teacher and a learner about his project, designing and building a skateboard ramp. The conversation was about where he was going to access the materials to construct the ramp. The teacher was not providing the materials, the teacher was not even saying where they could be obtained from, the learner had already figured that out and was about to make some phone calls to arrange sponsorship to assist with the purchasing of these materials. The teacher was saying that they wanted to see the script that the learner had prepared to guide them through these phone calls. In other words the teacher was not making it easy for the leaner but they were ensuring that the learner was being guided through the tricky phone calls and ensure that they were well prepared for the phone calls before they made them. So I was observing project based learning and genuine learner ownership and accountability with the teacher supporting.</div>
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Our learners are busy working towards completing their first individual Quest project where they follow a passion with the aim of producing an event or artifact. As a result quite a few of my observations at this time related to these Quest projects. The day beforehand a group of three learners ran their cake stall that was the first part of their Quest work for this term. I could talk about the learning that went with this fairly straightforward project [budgeting, advertising, cooperation, social awareness in choosing the charity that they were going to support etc. but what really struck home was when I came across some further work that one of these learners had just completed. Working on her ‘nature verse nurture’ assignment she had decided not to just write an essay but instead use an app that enabled her to develop a visual presentation on an iPad and by holding your phone over the visual you activated her prerecorded narrative. I came across this when it was being used by a teacher to engage two boys who were struggling with the task as a way that they might be able to present their work. This particular learner is quite a shy and reserved learner yet in two situations I had seen her lead, innovate, create and provide material that was helping in the learning of others, I had seen her feel confident enough to make herself totally accountable for her own learning and feel the genuine sense of accomplishment that comes from operating just outside of what is comfortable. Her confidence was being transferred and as a result her engagement was soaring.</div>
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The list of precious moments continued. I watched a group of our learners practice the school haka that some of them had written and remembered the conversation that I had had with a learner about the personal karakia [prayer] that she had written as part of their learning and another conversation with another learner about the research she was doing into her iwi [tribe] and the stunning artwork design she had completed that represented her iwi.</div>
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All of these learners felt safe enough to explore their Maori identity and were excited about what they were discovering about themselves in the process. The fact that the Te Reo teacher who had created this supportive environment and had encouraged them is but eight weeks into his teaching career is in itself an amazing accomplishment.</div>
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As I reflected further I thought of how a group of our Mandarin learners presented their language skills to a full school assembly and how our French learners had suggested the French language song for out bell music of the week so that other learners could experience hearing a language that they were rapidly growing to love. Examples of learners who are demanding to showcase their learning and be accountable for what they are achieving and wanting to share this with their peers.</div>
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Sure these are small examples but when they are added together they start to paint a picture, that our tangled web is heading in the right direction and on the way sparks of creative thinking are stating to ignite. So the group of learners working with a local supermarket to trial boomerang reusable shopping bags are not only showing their entrepreneurial skills but also a sense of social awareness and responsibility, they are taking their learning beyond the school and out into the community.</div>
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Yes maybe I am wearing rose coloured spectacles but it is hard not to get excited when I watched a learner in our recently completed three way partnership conversations hold her parents and her Ako coach captivated as she led them through her E -Portfolio that showcased her learning. Here was a 13 year old speaking with confidence and considerable animation and holding adults in the palm of her hand. A further example of learner accountability and ownership.</div>
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I stopped reflecting at this point, I was comforted that as we journey down our tangled path I could easily see specific and real examples of all the features that the readings I had just completed had identified as being important and vital. We were doing it, even more important our learners were doing it.</div>
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The seed will not be lost.</div>
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Well it feels like the seed is bursting through the surface. It is still a young seed but all of the examples above are our little seeds and they are growing, slowly but surely.</div>
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And then as Sunday afternoon loomed I wasn’t annoyed anymore, still impatient, still wanting to clear the tangles into a straight line, still wanting to speed up the growth of the seeds but that is the reality of a life in education.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Over the past two days I have spent time talking and remembering my school years at Christchurch Girls's High School. We were the class of 1967 - 50years ago! It is quite scary to think about how quick the years have passed. It was wonderful to catch up with ex-classmates, find out what has happened since we left school and of course discuss our old teachers, the school, our two Principals, friends who were absent, look at the old photos and discuss our education compared with today.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One of our classmates produced the school rules, hand-typed (with errors) on 4 yellowed pages.Yes, we did wear hats and gloves, were silent in assembly, rode our bikes in single file in Hagley Park (both hands on the handle bars) and certainly did not talk to students from Christchurch Boys' High or Christ's College!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">However, as we shared what we have all been doing with our lives and we discussed our education, it was obvious that we all felt that we had all received a solid academic education. Yes, by today's standards of ILE's, student agency, coding, flipped learning etc, it was very traditional - but that was 50 years ago. Some girls in the "A" stream learnt Latin and French, while the "G" stream could continue with French and some classes where University was not seen as a choice, did typing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">As we talked about what we had all done with our lives, many of us went on to be teachers, principals, doctors, and lawyers. Many had Masters degrees or a PhD. There were farmers, women who worked in a wide variety of business ventures or were business owners, even a Minister. Saturday saw 55 women at lunch sharing our lives and memories of school. It is true that we didn't like all our teachers or subjects, some of us may have failed Physics because we did our English homework sitting at the back of the room, but there were also subjects we enjoyed and did well in,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">teachers who we had affection and respect for, lifelong friendships made.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Life in 1971 was more predictable, slower-paced and school leavers could be offered several jobs to choose from. Fast forward to 2017. Can someone really make money out of sharing their life on</span><a href="http://gazettereview.com/2016/06/ten-highest-paid-instagrammers/" style="color: #666699; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Instagram</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> or </span><a href="http://mashable.com/2016/12/05/forbes-highest-paid-youtube-stars-2016/#iLGYfoVXn8qR" style="color: #666699; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">You Tube? </a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Can a 17 year old design an app in his bedroom and </span><a href="https://www.aol.com/article/2013/03/25/nick-dalosio-summly-yahoo-sale/20517350/" style="color: #666699; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sell it for several million dollars</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">? Can a few friends get together with an idea and start a company before they leave school?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Yes, all this is possible in 2017 - but what what can we teach our students that will also help them to be successful in life if being a You Tube celebrity is not for them. Do we go back to the</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="http://parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school/learning-at-school/key-competencies/" style="color: #666699; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">key competencies</a><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "petala_prosemilight" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">thinking, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "petala_prosemilight" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">using language, symbols, and text, managing self, relating to others, participating and contributing.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Although we didn't have the key competencies in 1967 perhaps what we learnt could fit under those headings.</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, what would we like our students to say about their teachers, their school, their education when they leave and meet up for their school reunion? </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cross-posted from <a href="http://mspaulinehendersonsblog.blogspot.co.nz/2017/03/class-of-2017-what-will-they-say-about.html">HERE</a></span></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-27942227869656998762017-03-12T07:15:00.000+13:002017-03-13T20:15:07.173+13:00Prove It!<span class="posted-on" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on 16 February 2017 </span><span class="byline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757575; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by Matt Nicoll. </span><span style="color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: inherit;">Cross-blogged from </span><a href="https://classroommatt.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/prove-it.html" style="color: #78469c; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">HERE</a><span style="color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px; font-style: inherit;">, with permission.</span><br />
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Last year, none of my Selected options had enough enrolments for the courses to run in Term One, 2017. Instead, I was asked if I wanted to take a class of "Proof", a course about forensic science and New Zealand law. Fortunately for me, and sadly for two other staff members who did the original course design and brief, there was a timetable clash which meant I was being offered the chance to lead one of the two classes of Proof.<br />
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Today was my first 100 minute block, and all of the effort was worth it. I can honestly say that was one of the most invigourating, enjoyable "lessons" that I have ever "taught". Not only were the students engaged, they were challenged and having <u>fun</u>. Word must have got out, because we had a lot of visitors during the lesson...</div>
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We are very lucky. This is a Selected course, so students opt into it. We also have two uninterrupted 100 minute blocks on subsequent days (Monday and Tuesday for one class, and Thursday and Friday for my class). We have a small roll in a big school, so can close off a lab to set up as a crime scene. Only the last of those things will change in the future, and it is definitely not an insurmountable barrier.</div>
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The grand plan goes something like this for "Proof 1.0":</div>
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<b>Week One:</b> Use evidence to solve a crime scene - Crime Scene #1. The evidence has been collected for you and suspects interviewed. Now use this information and your own observations to create a timeline and deduce "whodunit".</div>
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<b>Week Two:</b> Reflect on Crime Scene #1. What went well? What did not? Reveal the true story and reflect on our own conclusions and assumptions.</div>
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<b>Week Three:</b> Learn about some forensic and other crime-solving techniques via online games. Students will decide which skills they want to become experts in. We will seek out experts (and do some actual teaching and experiments, of course) to help students become competent at, for example, collecting and analysing fingerprints, or interviewing suspects, or collecting and analysing fibres. The students decide, we guide them to those who can help...</div>
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<b>Weeks Four-Six:</b> Learning skills and proving competence and/or proficiency in these skills. During this time, I will be writing Crime Scene #2, based upon the skills the students have elected to learn.</div>
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<b>Week Seven:</b> Crime Scene #2</div>
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<b>Week Eight: </b>Reflect upon Crime Scene #2. The class then plan and set up Crime Scene #3. This may be a Murder Mystery evening for teachers, parents and/or friends. It may be something completely different. The students get to choose how to celebrate the amazing learning they have achieved.<br />
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Then, we are looking at where we go from here: Proof 2.0. What will the next level of course look like? When will it be offered? Just for Year 10? For any student from any year level who has completed Proof 1.0? Will the timetable allow for that? Should it? Will Proof 2.0 provide opportunities for students to earn NCEA credits? Should it?</div>
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This is what teaching can be like. This is what learning can be like. And I get to do it all again tomorrow...</div>
Matt Nicollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01425549774267107543noreply@blogger.com0Rolleston, New Zealand-43.5908451 172.37915139999996-43.774874100000005 172.05642789999996 -43.4068161 172.70187489999995tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-9314195188480037502017-03-05T18:31:00.002+13:002017-03-05T18:33:23.069+13:00Unlearning what Schooling is<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;"><span class="posted-on" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on <a href="https://sophieralphnz.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/new-year-new-school-new-approach/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1279be; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2017-02-12T19:56:24+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline;">February 28, 2017</time></a></span><span class="byline" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #757575; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Karyn Gray<span class="author vcard" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">Cross-blogged from </span><a href="http://learningandleadinginanewworld.blogspot.co.nz/">HERE</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #757575; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">, with permission.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">"This school isn't strict enough," was the lament of the 14 year old girl I followed as she was leaving the learning space for the fourth time during the morning and I was remonstrating with her to return to her allocated group and space within the flexible learning environment 280 11-15 year olds and their 12 teachers were thrust 10 days earlier.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">"Tell me about that," I requested. "Every time you have left I've followed you and requested politely that you return. What do you mean by strict?"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">Her answer saddened me. It also angered me, and challenged me.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">According to this beautiful young lady- who so obviously has much talent and potential, but also has been very challenged by her past schooling and in turn has been and is immensely challenging of schooling and authority in any form, I was informed that strict meant shutting you in a room where you couldn't leave and making you do a worksheet silently.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">So the conversation went on with me explaining that I didn't really think a random worksheet would help her learning. The response: "this isn't about learning, it's about being a proper school. "</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">My heart sunk. Here I was observing a group of teachers working harder than they ever had, who were pushing themselves way outside their comfort zones and their past specialist teaching areas, creating and delivering high interest, practical, hands on learning activities requiring discussion and debate and thinking, and here they were facing a group of pre- teens and teenagers who have an understanding after 6-10 years in our education system that proper learning, or at least proper schooling, consists of sitting in a room silently or quietly doing worksheets. Or at least being told what to do and what to learn and how to learn it and complying.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">Since when did learning have no place in schooling in some of our young people's minds and lives and hearts? What are we going to do about that? Are we going to continue to perpetuate the myth that "well-controlled" classrooms where everyone is silent or at least quiet and appears to be actively following instructions and doing the task adds up to effective learning? Or at least effective schooling?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">Are we going to continue to explicitly and implicitly give young people the message that learning (or at least schooling) is something that an adult has to do to you in order for it to be proper or real?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">We spent three months together as a foundation staff working on unschooling ourselves from our notion of what learning in the school system has been in the past and what it possibly could be in the future. We knew we would be working alongside some young people who have been completely disenfranchised with the schooling system they have worked in and we were determined that we will re- engage these young people. The ones who couldn't conform to the old system, the ones already jaded by a system that so clearly doesn't meet their needs.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">We knew we would have to work hard to induct young people who have achieved and had a traditional sense of school success validated by their past experiences. We are having to work even harder to induct young people who have been failed by their past experiences of schooling into an understanding that schooling can equal learning and that this learning can be meaningful to them in deeply personal ways. We need to accept that just because they have been failed by one system they are not just going to magically accept and become part of a new system.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">We worked solidly, and without the normal interruptions of a school, for 7 hours a day on this for three months as a staff in our build up to opening. And we just broke the surface. We need to very careful we don't judge ourselves, or allow others to judge us, because some of our young people haven't immediately fallen into line with a completely different way of schooling- even if they were failed by previous systems. We need to have patience, and tolerance and belief in what we are doing. We need strong support systems around us to prevent disenchantment in what we are doing and to prevent temptations to fall back to the past when it gets hard. We need to reflect back on all the talking and learning we have done about implementation dips and learning pits.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">And we need to keep going. To keep changing and transforming what being at school is and means. How learning and schooling could be. One day at a time. Sometimes even one hour or one minute at a time. Definitely one young person at a time.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">To all our kaiako and kaiārahi and kaiawhina working so hard every day delivering and every night preparing I want to publicly say- you are awesome. You have a vision and a commitment to developing individual young people to be both learners and the best people they can be that is admirable. You are showing resilience and compassion, passion and commitment and it is an honour to stand amongst you.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">It will take time, And that is okay. Change, real change, has to if its to be effective and sustainable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">I look forward to the day I can have a conversation with the young lady quoted above and she can equate her schooling with real life learning that is meaningful for her and where she is in her life right now.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px;">And I have every faith that with the support of our Haeata staff that time will come. Every faith and a total belief.</span><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01537354866714206115noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-14861046531355084342017-03-03T08:36:00.000+13:002017-03-03T08:37:38.719+13:00Come to Eduignite at Haeata<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>When: Monday 3 April</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 20px;"><b>What: Share a five-minute talk with auto-advancing slides OR come along to listen and connect with Canterbury educators. </b></span></div>
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What is EduIgnite? Ignite Evenings are held in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. EduIgnite is an Ignite Evening run by educators, focused on education.</div>
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<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-size: large;">“Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all of these and more. It’s a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local volunteers who are connected through the global Ignite network, Ignite is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections in each city. And, via streaming and archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge and passion with the world.” (http://ignite.oreilly.com/)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-26721272761939215972017-02-14T22:15:00.000+13:002017-02-15T06:56:28.477+13:00New Year, New School, New Approach?<br />
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The 2017 academic year has kicked off and after what seems like an age we have opened the doors to our new kura. We have a sparkly new building in a reasonably sparkly new setting (The Town of the Future…)</div>
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However I am certain in saying that if we were located in any building we would most certainly be engaging in the innovative, exciting and learner-centred kura that is unfolding before my eyes.</div>
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The team of Learning Coaches….or teachers… applied for the positions were selected on their dispositions rather than their ‘subject’ areas. It is inspiring to hear teachers when asked “what subject do you teach?” reply ” I teach learners, not subjects”. To have an open minded staff willing to learn, willing to push the boundaries and try new things is heart-warming and I know I am in the right place for my own learning journey at this time.</div>
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We ARE lucky, yes, but we could have gone down the same path as always with teacher centred content delivery, but the establishment Board of Trustees (eBoT), who we are wholeheartedly grateful for their vision, have supported innovation and the challenge of bringing learning into the 21st Century in this the ‘Town of the Future’. The eBoT support giving learners the opportunity and tools for life rather than content driven secondary education which would suit some teachers and communities. Challenging the status quo is where it’s at and the eBoT and Principal are up for the challenge and they have a crew of passionate, driven staff who are willing to go the extra mile to make this a benchmark school which others may get some inspiration from.</div>
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The pastoral care that has always been hinted at is in action and the <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">time </span>that we are always so lacking in schools has been given. (Biggest gripe of teachers ‘more time’) Remember ‘form time’, ‘registration’ or ‘tutor group’? Well give it 500mins per week and you have something that we can call pastoral care where relationships count. Now this is not new for NZ or the world but it is a growing trend that is working. The <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learning Coach</strong> is responsible for the learners in their <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ako group</strong> and will establish a home -school partnership which will span the learners' time at the College. An individual reading programme (Rolleston Reads) will be established to encourage if not a love of reading, but the tools to read widely and with depth. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quest</strong> projects will be undertaken by learners to see where their passions are, to spend time working on areas of difficulty, and to see if that is really what you want to do when you grow up. Learning Coaches will support learners as they ‘<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">navigate</strong>‘ through secondary school with the support of caregivers. This will lead to no surprises and all learners getting the individual support that is needed. No more factory assembled learners here. Of the 12 learners in my Ako group I am intrigued as to where they will take me on their journey and what learning I will need to do to support them. I can’t wait!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Multidisciplinary learning</strong> is also a key focus. <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Connected</strong> is where learners spend 400mins a week supported by 3 to 4 teachers in what would traditionally be known as the ‘core subjects’. Making connections between these areas and seeing the fit in the wider world is key to creating well rounded learners who understand the world they live in and the connections within. This block of learning begins this week, I was asked by a learner where is math and science on my timetable. I wonder how long before they are talking the talk that they will be walking?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Selected</strong> learning is about learners finding out where their place might be in the world and once again making links. Learners will experience two different blocks of 200mins of selected per week. Proof, Bandquest, Power of Team, Web Design and Be a Creative Rebel are only some of the choices available to learners in term 1. How did we come up with these options? We surveyed the learners and asked them what they wanted. The research behind <a href="http://ollyusofalhaj.ipgkti.edu.my/sumber/resosbestari/PENDEKATAN/scl/7%20SCL-Nanney.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 197, 197); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1279be; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Student centred</a> learning tells us that replacing the chalk n’ talk style lectures that we are familiar with, with self-paced, authentic and engaging learning experiences develops greater retention of knowledge and confidence for a learner to move forward and either dig deeper or broaden their horizons. Therefore we recognised we need to listen to the learners, caregivers and community from the outset so we are delivering an authentic, appropriate curriculum.</div>
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In answer to the heading of this blog, it’s a resounding ‘YES’ for now. We are open and on track to listen and learn from those around us. As a teacher I am continuing on my learning journey and am yet to set a personal learning goal for the year, but I know it is going to be difficult to decide where to focus my energies. Should it be on developing my Hauora vision to make it something that may be a benchmark for others (crikey!) or should it be on developing a learner-centred leadership programme (The Power of Team) or should it be working on <a href="http://talesoftheroad.direct.gov.uk/stop-look-listen.php" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 197, 197); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1279be; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stop, Look, Listen</strong> </a>something I remember from my first year at primary school <a href="http://www.powershallinfantschool.co.uk/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(197, 197, 197); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1279be; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">(Powers Hall Infants School)</a>. Something to consider when crossing the road <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AND </strong>when learning.</div>
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The purpose of this blog post is to discuss the vehicles for learning in our kura and for me to reflect back at the end of the year on our journey. This post outlines nothing new from what I learnt in July 2016, but now that it is a realisation I feel that it is important to acknowledge and document this story as it unfolds.</div>
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Finally thank you to the eBOT, Tom and Steve for all they have done thus far. I know the staff will do you proud and we could not have got this far without you. I hope we get to walk beside you on this journey for some time to come and that your vision shines through in all whole spend time in this valuable kura.</div>
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Waiho i te toipoto, Kaua i te toiroa.</div>
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Let us keep close together, not wide apart.</div>
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Matt Nicollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01425549774267107543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-35058726328942611672017-01-30T10:08:00.001+13:002017-01-30T10:08:20.118+13:00Good Luck three new schools in Christchurch!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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2017 sees three new schools open here in Christchurch. Haeata in Aranui - a Yr1-13 school, Lemonwood Grove, a new primary school in Rolleston and Rolleston College a new Secondary school in Rolleston. Rolleston college begins the year with just year 9 students while Haeata has students from Aranui Primary, Avondale and Wainoni Primary as well as secondary students from Aranui High School.<br />
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Here are the links to their websites<br />
<a href="https://www.haeata.school.nz/">Haeata Campus</a><br />
<a href="http://rollestonsec.school.nz/">Rolleston College</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.lemonwoodgrove.school.nz/">Lemonwood Grove</a></div>
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New teachers and leaders from both Rolleston and Haeata contributed to the 2016</div>
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<a href="http://chched.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/%2331daysof%20blogging%23CENZ16">"31Days of blogging"</a> challenge and shared their views on moving to new schools and their learning journeys. They are all great posts and well worth reading.</div>
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It is 11.31pm as I write this and certainly time for me to go to sleep. But just a wee post to wish all the Christchurch Connected Educators a very Merry Christmas. I hope you have a very happy morning tomorrow.<br />
Some people in our house seem to have lots of pressies on Christmas morning, often from themselves or even labelled from the cat -not sure how the cat manages to get that present buying done - probably taking advantage of online shopping!<br />
For me Christmas is really about spending time with whanau, friends, time to reflect and be grateful, a few sleep ins, good books, some home made goodies and I really do love Christmas cake! A big thank you to the two people who gave me cakes this year.<br />
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"May you days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be..."<br />
spending time with family, resting and recharging for 2017<br />
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Meri Kirihimete, Ka kite ano <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love going to these TeachMeets. I always come away being inspired by something and getting excited by little bits of information, or a new tool, or just hearing about what others are doing in their schools. Today was certainly no different - including the awesome food put on by our host school, Villa Maria College.</span><br /><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aidan gave us a quick digital korowai before taking us through his learning as a bilingual teacher. He went through a short Cultural Narrative for Villa Maria College, reminding us all that every school should have one and we should all be aware of this. I thought at this time how lucky we are at <a href="http://www.haeata.school.nz/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Haeata</a> to have had time to explore our Cultural Narrative and how much it underpins all that we will do there. He talked about <a href="https://educationcouncil.org.nz/sites/default/files/Tataiako.pdf" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tātaiako</a> - Cultural competencies for teachers of Māori learners and I found this reinforced the learning I have been doing at Haeata over the last few weeks (see other posts on my blog for more info on this). He mentioned about the challenges for staff around not feeling confident with Bicultural learning and he offered support for anyone wanting to know more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Schira spoke about promoting wellbeing though Character strengths. There are 5 schools in a cluster on the southeast of Christchurch who are using the <a href="https://www.viacharacter.org/www/Character-Strengths/Science-Of-Character" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">VIA Institute Character Strengths</a> to promote wellbeing in their schools for staff and for students. They get everyone to do a survey to start with (on the site) to help them discover what their strengths are. The school focuses on 2 strengths each term (there are 24) for example, Bravery and Persistence and they look at topics such as the Olympics or books on these topics. Their school musical production is based around Creativity and Confidence. This approach works on being comfortable with who you are which I like.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to do this test and it was surprisingly correct for how I see myself so I was pleased to see my top 6 character strengths were Honesty, Kindness, Leadership, Judgement, Fairness and Perspective. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://answergarden.ch/welcome/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Answer garden</a> - She found out about this at ULearn and I must say it looks great. She asked us "What do you enjoy about being part of TeachMeet?" and we had only 20 characters to answer. A really good way of getting quick brief feedback to get the most popular theme or idea and you can also export to Tagxedo or a wordle, send to Twitter! The <a href="https://answergarden.ch/about-AnswerGarden/" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">About AnswerGarden</a> page is really useful to describe this in more detail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just before the break we were shown <a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">nGram</a> which shows how many times words have been used in literature over a period of time. We were challenged to think about how this could be used in a classroom. At the end of the TeachMeet, Matt Nicoll shared his ideas with Pauline Henderson and myself and I got very excited about how you could use this tool to ask the "what if" questions. It also got us thinking about what happened in the past and what effect it had on literature and society. It certainly created a lot of discussion with us at the end of the day. Some of the searches that had interesting results were:</span></div>
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Duncan Bond, Nadene Brouwer, Richard McBrearty (Burnside High School) <complete id="goog_1109357228">@bondteach </complete>- Collaboration in a Secondary School Curriculum Area</h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They made it optional for their faculty to be involved. The timetable had to be changed around so that all the classes were on at the same time and they have ended up with 2 trios at yr 9 and 2 trios at yr 10 - about a 3rd of their students are going through this style of learning that has a skills emphasis rather than content focus. They meet once a fortnight to plan next fortnight and their non-contacts are aligned with each other so they have the time to do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lee introduced us to the <a href="http://www.vln.school.nz/file/download/852642" style="color: #b5653b; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Educultural wheel</a> which was devised by Angus Macfarlane in 2004 which she learnt about in her Post-grad studies at the University of Canterbury. She talked about how to understand the culture of the child, you have to understand your own culture. Lee encouraged us to share our background with our students and get to know our student's background. We need to demonstrate that we care in actions, not just words. <span lang="en-NZ">The four parts of the wheel go together to create a culture in your school but are not designed to be taken in isolation. </span>There is a blank version to record examples of when/where the concepts have been present in your class, or not present as the case may be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If anyone that attended has other comments to add about what they heard today, please do so in the comments below. These are just my thoughts and what I took from the session, others may have different takeaways from this. </span></div>
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Matt Nicollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01425549774267107543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-31213789890285806162016-11-17T22:39:00.000+13:002016-11-23T21:42:57.458+13:00Christmas DrinksLet's all get together to celebrate the end of another busy year for the wonderful educators in Canterbury.<br />
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When: 30 November from 4pm (most people have indicated that they cannot make it until 5pm, but some hardy souls should be there from 4pm)<br />
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Welcome to the third TeachMeet Christchurch event of the year <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">to be hosted at Villa Maria College on Thursday 17th November in the College library </span>starting at 4:15pm.</div>
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To learn about the <a href="https://teachmeet.co.nz/teachmeet-0-1-tuesday-17th-may/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #007acc; text-decoration: none;">first TeachMeet</a> earlier this year, <a href="https://teachmeet.co.nz/2016/05/17/tmchch-0-1-twitter-wrapup/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #007acc; text-decoration: none;">see this summary of it here. </a> <a href="https://teachmeet.co.nz/2016/08/11/tmchch-0-2-twitter-wrapup/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: currentcolor 0px 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #007acc; text-decoration: none;">A second TeachMeet</a>was also run in Term 3 2016.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit;">There is no theme or agenda – present a “wow” moment of something you tried, something you <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">want </em>to try, or something you’re studying about.</li>
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Come and hear Professor Peter O'Connor share a Pedagogy of Surprise. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">October PD activities included; - NPDL Conference with <a href="http://edtalks.org/#/video/new-pedagogies-deep-learning">Michael Fullan</a> in Christchurch, CORE </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Education's annual conference uLearn16, the famous <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23notatulearn16&src=typd">#notatulearn16 </a>Twitter group led by the equally famous <a href="https://twitter.com/Allanahk">@AllanahK </a> ,many educators around NZ joining the activities via Twitter, the live streaming of keynotes from uLearn, fabulous conversations from the Connected Educators lounge -again streamed live and available on YouTube. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And of course from our perspective, lots of blog posts from fantastic </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Christchurch/Canterbury Educators willing to share their school stories, their views and their practice. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you so much, you have been amazing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also several blog posts from staff at two brand new secondary schools, Haeata and Rolleston College, who welcome new students from the beginning of 2017. This was a unique opportunity to read just how a brand new school starts to create its culture and connect staff. Lots of educators have worked their way through aspects of the <a href="http://bit.ly/CENZkete2016">Starter Kete</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">with many teachers joining Twitter and becoming involved in the various Twitter chats that happen throughout the week. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Many thanks also to everyone who has read the blog, made comments, tweeted or re-tweeted throughout the month.Feel free to follow us @chchednet. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please keep reading our blog - we will be advertising upcoming events, as well as more blog posts by teachers sharing what they do - (but not for 31days in a row!!)</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-77627326590625776852016-10-29T18:20:00.000+13:002016-10-29T18:20:22.570+13:00Day 29 -Connections - Past, Present, Future<br />
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It is often said that we learn from the past, but how often do we take the opportunity to reflect on years gone by? With all this talk of connecting in education, do any of us take the time to connect with ourselves, our past, our present and our possible future, and the impact that life has had, and will have on our identity?</div>
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At a recent boarding school reunion, I reconnected with many friends and was able to reflect on the impact that boarding school had on my identity. One friend, Soo Bee explained to me how she had always felt that she didn’t belong anywhere. She no longer identified strongly with Malaysia her country of birth, and had always felt like an outsider in Melbourne her home for nearly thirty years. It was through returning to the boarding school that was her home in her formative years and connecting with her past, that she was able to make sense of her identity and through this gain a sense of belonging.</div>
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Soo Bee’s journey enabled me to connect with my past and through this connection I came to understand how boarding school had influenced me and my identity. In brief boarding school was a crash course on the key competencies. I had to manage myself, I had to learn to relate to others from diverse backgrounds, I had to participate and contribute, thinking was essential, as was understanding language, symbols and texts. I discovered that my identity was strongly linked to my time at boarding school and the independence that I gained through living away from home.</div>
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I spent two nights with old friends at my old boarding school. It had been a very long time since we had all gathered together to share laughter and fun. I took away with me a better understanding of my identity and a clear direction for my teaching. If I can embed the key competencies through my teaching, I will provide an environment where my students can connect with their own past and develop their own strong identity thus enabling them to achieve success in whatever future they choose for themselves.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927364549462510617.post-75726518511072733072016-10-27T09:00:00.000+13:002016-10-27T10:59:54.918+13:00 Day27 - Professional Development - Is There Another Way?<br />
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<a href="http://georgecouros.ca/blog/archives/5715" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Innovator's Mindset - George Couros</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> @gcouros</span></div>
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