What can schools do when students find inappropriate websites?

It's not "if"; it's "when." Despite schools' best efforts, some students will access pictures and videos that we'd prefer they didn't see. However, with best practice in place, the number of opportunities for things tp go wrong are far fewer. Here's what you can do to mitigate internet distractions: 1. Linewize (infrastruture) Many TTS schools use Linewize for internet filtering. One of the Linewize options is "Classwize" which enables teachers to see what students are doing in real time and intervene immediately should they need to. It also keeps a record of everything students do on the internet at school, even if the device is owned by the student. Click on the video to hear more or drop us a line at info@tts.co.nz and we can arrange for Colin to give you a demo. Click here to read more. 2. Classroom Management Transparency and accountability is key to ensuring students stay on task. A good way to do this is to make sure that their screen is visible at all times. Students who sit at the back of the room and hide their screen from everyone else need to move towards the middle of the room so that they can be kept accountable. If you'd like one of our Professional Learning team to speak to your whole staff, please contact us at pl@tts.co.nz.  3. Discipline Process Again, transparency is key. If students think there will be an over-the-top punishment, they are far less likely to report when they see or find something inappropriate, guilt when they have strayed, or let the teacher know when others have been up to no good.

Staff PYP Professional Development Day - Concepts - Friday 21st July 2017

Connecting provocations and wonderings - Understanding the types of engagements that will result in deeper and more enduring learning.

Thinking about what is essential to include in class - eliminating nice to dos. Student are excellent at accessing new knowledge through their use of technology so we need to think critically about what we will include in class - there must be a good reason.

How do you open up so that students have a voice in where the inquiry will go?

Rocket Writing - 1 minute to write
What is knowledge building?

How can you engage all students in the first 2 weeks of the unit?
How can you make units meaningful/purposeful for students?
What is the piece of the unit that the students are going to personally engage with?

Related concepts give you the direction of the unit and it will be these that you can use to engage the students.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Most Human Activity

How do you get in the way of student discovery?

How is this learning engagement going to take the students deeper in their understanding of the conceptual ideas? - Learning engagements can serve as a formative assessment.

What does documenting look like?

How curiosity changes our brains

Primary resources - People, places and things

Investigation to engage with something.

Using books is inquiry for information NOT inquiry for meaning.

Inquiry-Based Learning: From teacher guided to student driven

Authentic and purposeful experiences that are trans-disciplinary.

Real-world contexts.

"The greatest enemy to understanding is coverage" - Howard Gardner

Which are concepts and which are facts?

Concept - through the lense of...

You have to be connected for you to validate prior knowledge.

Provocations are key to help students connect their prior knowledge.

Look into: Upside-down drawing

UOI Review - Conceptual Unpacking

Provocation

Curiosity and Wondering Activity

What concepts may be focussed on in each provocation?

How could you adapt and change these to suit your on UOIs?

Resource Ideas - Austral Ed - Glee Books

Science Literacy: Sparking curiosity and solving real-world problems

Professional Readings - Learners in the driving seat

Staff Meeting - Tuesday 4th July 2017

Breakout Box

Useful Links:
https://sites.google.com/view/2017breakoutedunz/home
https://kerileebeasley.com/

This afternoon I attended the Team Leader meeting to share my experience of using the Breakout Box in my class. I discussed how I used this resource with my students and how I incorporated it into my Numeracy rotation.