Staff Meeting - PYP - Who We Are - Thursday 25th January 2018

- Shared themes in each class because of the connections in the programme of inquiry.
- Concepts should be able to be understood internationally - Te Reo related concepts but programme does need to be written in one language.
- Unpack each of the related and key concepts.

Investigation/Activity Ideas:
- Naming story
- Pepeha
- Where were you born?
- Essential Agreements
- Recipe for Learning
- Vogels ad as provocation

What do we want the students to understand by the end of this unit?
- What a community is
- That they fit into more than one community - That they have a culture and a place
- The classroom and school community/culture
- The Berkley community and connections within this
- To feel that sense of belonging - feeling of empowerment, feeling that they have something to contribute
- Who am I as an individual (personal history) and how do I fit into the Berkley community

Staff Meeting - 2018 Preparation/Exhibition - Tuesday 14th November 2017

Staff Meeting - POI Review - Tuesday 24th October 2017

Associate Teacher Course - Friday 22nd September 2017

Role of an Associate Teacher:
- Consistent, positive teacher role model
- Can communicate effectively with a variety of students
- Meet the university requirements
- Set up well from the very beginning
- Make time to give regular feedback
- Let the students make mistakes
- IDEA (3rd year) - Push all desks to the middle, before full control get the students to practice the set up of a class.
- Give specific feedback with 1 or 2 things to focus on.

Students:
- Planning to you 24 hours before teaching
- Follow your guidance - day to day or weekly planning
- Direct to Fraser & Hill textbook for planning
- Watch for downloading of planning - ensure it is relevant
- Encourage them to talk to you about any issues first - Can go to the liaison person with any issues also (Pip or Clark)
- Are they making progress to achieve the goals?
- If the have an evaluative lecturer coming in, make them do what they would normally do at that time. Don't put on a show. Demonstrate good solid teaching practice - Keep it simple. 40 minutes to an hour.
- Student Handbook - Minimum requirements. Work from last week backwards because time goes quickly.
- CUSP - Half a day of activities when it suits.
- Year 2 - Minimum of a weeks full control
- Written feedback - Google Docs - Feedback on what you have seen, Feed-forward, Student Reflection
- Planning - Make them go over the top first then you can ask them to slack off a bit if you see appropriate
- Don't be afraid to talk to them about outside influences if these are effecting their practicum
- Don't be afraid to be realistic in their report - Contact Clark if not sure
- School Camp - Still only classed as helpers
- What is Full Control? Taking on the role of the teacher - Can look different in each classroom
- Report Guidelines in the Handbook
- Recommend that they need more time if need be
- Students must make up the time if they are off for more than 3 days - Must have a medical certificate for three days or more off

End of Practicum - Students give feedback on AT (Can be used in PLJ)




What happens when things go wrong?
- Go to liaison person first
- Next Clark will work with AT and student
- Don't leave it until the end
- When students do fail a practicum they are able to appeal to redo
- Be honest with feedback and keep it simple and to the point

Coaching and Mentoring
- David Clutterbutt
- Powerful Questions - PRAIRIE

Professional Readings - Rethinking the Associate Teacher and Pre-service Teacher relationship

Exhibition Workshop - Monday 11th September 2017

- Possible issues thought about by Weds Week 10

- Silent discussion: (by end of Week 10)
- Loose themes on A3 paper
- Paper - Students write three themes and can't work with

- Groups decided over the holidays

- Individual SUPP Planners for each team saved in the Year 8 Exhibition Folder

- Speaker Series - Week 10/Week 1

- Front loading using Exhibition Site

- School Kit - The heART of the Matter

Cool Resource
- Student Volunteer Army

Staff Meeting - Numeracy - Tuesday 5th September 2017

IXL

How is this used in class?
How does this operate in my class?

Learning & Analytics
- Should mostly be working in the Year 7 & 8 sections of IXL but you are able to dip back into the other year levels to solidify learning in certain areas.
- Use the search bar to find specific areas of numeracy that you are looking for e.g. ordering fractions.
- Use IXL in groups - all students on laptops but working on the same problem.
- Can star certain tasks that you would like them to focus on.
- Use of real-time to keep track of how students are getting on.
- Can pull students down to look at trouble-spots (questions that they are not sure of). IXL automatically generates the group that need to work on each skill. Allows you to see gaps really quickly.
- Can show topics down the side rather than year levels.
- Set time for each day e.g. 10 mins - could be linked to class dojo points.