Lead+Teacher+Meeting+22+August+2011


 * Lead Teacher Meeting - Monday 22 August 2011 - Te Kura o Tākaro - 9:00-3:30pm**

This meeting was attended by.. Michael, Ben, Alana, Kathy, Ronald, Mel, Melissa, Trevor, Shona, Janice, Raina (half day), & Martin (half day)


 * 1. Welcome -** thank you Te Kura o Tākaro for agreeing to host us today - a reminder that lunch is BYO.


 * 2. Feedback from Cluster Mini Conference -** please comment in the discussion tab here and ask your teachers to do the same.


 * 3. Buddy Teachers -** make contact by week 5 - please contact the Lead Teacher of the school if you have any problems.

NZC to ground your intent firmly in best or desired practice. || The "Principles" of New Zealand Curriculum state:
 * 4. Feedback from MoE about the first Milestone report 2011 -**
 * **Main Points** || **Lead Teacher Ideas** ||
 * In future summaries consider how you could link these objectives to research and/or the

Community engagement
The curriculum has meaning for students, connects with their wider lives, and engages the support of their families, whānau, and communities.

The Key Competencies include:

Using language, symbols, and texts
They confidently use ICT (including, where appropriate, assistive technologies) to access and provide information and to communicate with others.

Participating and contributing
This competency is about being actively involved in communities. Communities include family, whānau, and school and those based, for example, on a common interest or culture. They may be drawn together for purposes such as learning, work, celebration, or recreation. They may be local, national, or global. This competency includes a capacity to contribute appropriately as a group member, to make connections with others, and to create opportunities for others in the group. || wikis being used in all classes in the cluster and to what degree of success? || As suggested, perhaps we need to create a directory of blogs/wiki/webstes for each school and put this on cluster wiki || cluster activities are directly having on teaching and student learning and progress. || Capture teacher voice of OTJ's about the difference that ICT tools are having on children in your class - a video from each school showing teacher reflection on the impact ICT tools are having on their children. || and interactive and collaborative environment...” where responding rather than simply viewing is the challenge. I look forward to this momentum being sustained and inclusive of all principals. || * Principal Buddy Wiki the wiki including name, school, year level, blog/wiki URL, Skype, twitter and delicious user names etc to provide details and a window into digital identities and networks of all teachers. || As suggested, perhaps we need to create a directory of blogs/wiki/webstes for each school and put this on cluster wiki - Blogs and wikis are linked via school websites which are listed on the home page of this wiki. || mechanism for communicating with parents. Your target audience is the biggest facebook demographic. || * Google + || using it as your sole mechanism for reporting back on progress towards all national goals, consider how you will make a closer alignment between the goals and your progress. For example there is no clear indication of how you are working towards building successful digital citizens in your summary. It is shown in the individual school reports but is not clearly highlighted in the summary. Creating goal subheadings or grouping progress directly against the goals may help in this area. || * Would make an excellent beginning of the year - link it in with a 'School Citizen model' and the stated measures of success that are recorded there. These indicators should guide your discussion of progress and evidence, key lessons and next steps. Your methodology for collecting this information through lead teachers relates very well to the indicators but this does not always flow through to the summary. ||  || development since the beginning of the contract, what is not clear is the impact the cluster activities are directly having on teaching and student learning and progress. || Teacher and student voice recorded as short video clips talking about the impact digital technologies, including the class learning hub (eg. blog, wiki, ultranet) is having on the learning within their classrooms || and evidence? A good example of this is acknowledging the difference having a facilitator has made to the cluster. I have heard nothing but positive comments re the facilitators role, yet none of this is captured and reported on. Clearly a success for the cluster but not acknowledged in your report. || Teacher and student voice recorded as short video clips talking about the impact digital technologies, including the class learning hub (eg. blog, wiki, ultranet) is having on the learning within their classrooms || //or contribute to the Ministry’s e-learning web presence”//. As the year unfolds and more relevant material and discussion populates the VLN, I look forward to seeing some online participation happening from the principals. || Principals to join up to VLN, join groups of interest and post links to their thoughts || about next year’s programme and how it will shape up. A tool that may help with the planning for this is the soon to be published eLearning Planning Framework. || [] || between the Government, Telecom and Enable Networks. A deal to provide UFB for rural schools had previously been secured. ||  ||
 * To what extent though are blogs and
 * What is not clear is the impact the
 * Reference to the principals and creating “...a real
 * Google + (allows you to create ICTPD Cluster Principal group)
 * Write down what tools you or your school is using and how it is going on the Principal voice page - other Principals can respond in the discussion tab ||
 * Consider putting a directory of cluster teachers on
 * Consider to the place of social media such as facebook as a potential
 * The reflective summary is a good overview of progress to date. However, as you are
 * Make it explicit rather than implicit
 * []
 * Include in rubric ||
 * In reference also to future reports and summaries, refer to your contract variation
 * While each school is progressing and looking back can no doubt see considerable
 * Rather than anecdotally, how are you going to deliberately capture this teacher voice
 * Your contract variation includes a national directive for principals “//to participate and///
 * As you are at the half way point in your contract it is a good time to start thinking
 * Ultrafast broadband for your school is a reality with the recent signing of the deal


 * 5. Meeting our cluster objectives, Term 3-4 2011**
 * Collaboration - classes, teachers
 * Digital Citizenship
 * Learning Hubs - blogs, wikis, Ultranet


 * 6.** **Sharing workshops and other ideas from the Mini Conference**
 * Ben shared his iPad through the data projector - animation software, including 'I can animate' (for iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Mac or PC), 'Angry Birds': maths angles, 'Dermander' - panoramic photography, KidgitZ: Tetris-like maths game, Digital Books: Interactive - can be set so it records the child reading it
 * Kathy and Melanie spoke about there conference workshop blog: []
 * Trevor talked about Numeracy sites: [[file:Town and Country ICTPD Cluster Junior.pdf]]
 * Alana spoke about 4 links she and Ronald had introduced at the conference: [], [], [] and []
 * Mel talked about [] - Jing is a PC & Mac programme that you download - it records whatever you are doing on your desktop - great for creating tutorials or recording Skype conversations!
 * Janice talked about [] - this site has fantastic educational links - check it out!


 * 7. Professional Readings, Term 3-4**
 * http://town-countryictpd.wikispaces.com/Professional+Readings+2011#xInnovate,%20Collaborate%20and%20Achieve!**

In pairs, respond to the main ideas that speak to you from the reading. Reflect on: Please post these responses in the Discussion tab on the Professional Readings 2011 page.
 * What was the main message?
 * What would this mean for... our children/our school/our class/where we are now?
 * What further questions would you have?


 * 8. Tour of Te Kura o Tākaro -** thank you to the teachers for allowing us to see your classes in action.


 * 9. Aims for next LT Meeting**
 * -** Visit some other Manawatu Schools with the following aims:
 * Digital Collaboration between students and/or teachers with other schools
 * We would like to see effective examples of how you use ICTs in your classrooms to enhance students learning
 * How have you sustained digital learning, technologies, and what provisions have you made for future technological developments?


 * 10. Thank you Alana and Tākaro School for hosting us today - and for the yummy morning tea.**