M6+-+G3+-+Teachers+to+integrate+eLearning+effectively

• Teachers will demonstrate digital leadership in their classrooms. • Teachers will increase the use of digital resources and approaches as an integral part of all class programmes.

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Awapuni School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: have joined individual groups on the VLN. || All teachers names are registered under VLN and have received ongoing emails which they have read to enhance their e-learning areas of interest || Ongoing || planned ICT components for integrated units. || Teacher planning || Ongoing || blogs which are updated regularly. || These have already been uploaded in previous reports || To keep blogs updated regularly || have met and shared digital development within their groups. || As our school were in the process of developing a teacher inquiry system we have only allowed the ICT lead teacher to experiment. This presentation will be uploaded at the end of term 3. || Ongoing || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Teachers attended the cluster conference and attended relevant workshops. The meeting with other teacher in the cluster, at the same level, helped clarify and develop skills for some teachers. || Staff meeting discussions, cluster wide meetings at all participating schools in 'Town & Country' cluster. || Communicate with cluster peers to identify workshops that may be of interest to our school. || and feedback. || Teachers have used websites to analyse good/bad sites, teaching children about 'Digital citizenship'. || Class displays of that time. ||  || 'Digital Citizenship & Cyber Safety'. Workshops were held at Kairanga school for four of our students to create a video on the new skills learnt e.g. Digital Citizenship || Teacher planning, Town & Country links to 'Student Workshops' || Ongoing monitoring of student interactions with websites and computer tasks. || remain at the school so teacher development has been ongoing however new teachers have picked up accordingly. Students are motivated and enthusiastic about using web tools to enhance their learning in literacy, numeracy & theme. Teachers are more willing to try new technology tools || We now have put in place these things:1) Term Calendar for all staff on google 2) Classroom blogs 3) School wide blog 4) Purchases of new laptops, I-pads, cameras, flip-cams, TV's, I-pods, applications from websites 5) Digi-Awards - annual entries from 2010 6) More children accessing websites with confidence || Continue with developing and enhancing e-Learning activities within our school to evolve with the technological changes that occur in our everchanging society. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All teachers
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will show evidence of the use of digital opportunities. || Teachers have purposefully
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || Three teachers have classroom
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Through teacher inquiry teachers
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || In term 1, a schoolwide focus was on
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || To begin, only two teachers and the Principal

Central Normal School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: have joined individual groups on the VLN. Sharing of good practice is occuring between some teachers. || All teachers names are registered under VLN || To continue to encourage staff to make connections with other educators and IT experts as part of their own professional learning goals and to actively reflect on their practices. || Most teachers are using the big screens TV's daily. || Classroom environments and the use of the TV's. || encourage all staff to include elements of IT into their long term plans and daily lessons. || 2013 Digi awards entries. || Digi Awards finalists. Blogs/ Wikis || ongoing || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Apart from cluster workshops, due to the workload this is being undertaken at mostly team or an individual level. || Team reflections on professional learning goals. Individual appraisal goals. || ongoing || and feedback. ||  ||   ||   || The purchase of our big screen TV's has had the most positive effect and the distribution of desktop computers form our computer suite into the classrooms has meant their is more opportunity each day for IT to be integratged into the learning. Staff who have joined our school during the three years have added enthusiasm and expertise to our teams. ||  ||   ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All teachers
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || Some teachers consistently plan with IT tools and their uses are evident.
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || Classroom blogs and Wiki sites || [] || To continue to encourage the children to be active members of class blogs and wikis making contributions. ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Some teachers have shared at cluster meetings/ mini conference.
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || All staff have clear understandings of the DCM and their responsibilities to be role models in the positive use of IT tools for learning and development. ||  ||   ||
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || As a large staff, it has been difficult to be able to track the progress of all staff members, however, there has been an increased willingness by many staff to continue to develop their knowledge and skills in the use of IT as a teaching and learning tool.

Cloverlea School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: and joined interest groups. || All teachers names are registered under VLN and have received ongoing emails which they have read to enhance their e-learning areas of interest || On going as per individual teachers interests. || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Teachers attended the cluster conference and attended relevant workshops. Teachers have one on one sessions with lead teachers up to twice a term. || Town and Country wiki ||  || and feedback. || We are still developing and amending our own assessment tools to meet the needs of our learners. Teachers do link to the ARBs, Maths Online and TKI to access tools. || These are mostly available within children's individual folders. || Develop a school wide approach. || http://cloverlea8.wikispaces.com/ || on going || Teachers have more hardware available to use; cameras, recording devices, more computers in classrooms. || This will be evidence in the milestone reports from 1-6 and through work on class blogs and wikis. || Develop a school plan - where to from here? ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All staff members have joined the VLN
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || More evidence within classrooms of digital use and student involvement. || Teachers Planning ||  ||
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || These are continuing to evolve and develop across the school. || Blogs and wiki pages as evidenced elsewhere. || Continuing development. ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Through the teacher inquiry teachers have met and shared digital development within their groups. || http://town-countryictpd.wikispaces.com/Chris%2C+Sue%2C+Jill%2C+Becky%2C+Kathy#Junior%20Team%20Inquiries%202012 ||  ||
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || Teachers have taught digital citizenship within their classrooms. Teachers are consistently modelling this within their classrooms. || http://room5cloverlea2012.wikispaces.com/Cybersafety
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || Three years ago very little ICT or digital work was happening in most classrooms. Today it is happening in all classrooms and in all learning areas. This is a result of the knowledge and skill development of teachers across the school. Every teacher have attended professional development in this area via, conferences, cluster workshops, and individual lead teacher sessions.

Hokowhitu School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Discussions at staff and syndicate meetings about digital learning, ICT cluster activities and up coming digital learning events. Teachers have had opportunities to attend Digi awards workshops. || Teacher profiles can be found on the VLN. || Continue to use the VLN as PLN. || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Teachers have been involved in half day workshops with Lead teacher developing digital skills that could be used to enhance their classroom program. ||  || Ongoing || and feedback. || Class blogs promote quality work. Principal and other teachers have begun to post feedback about children's blog posts. || Class blogs || Ongoing development. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All teachers have joined the VLN. Lead teacher has run workshops in school with each syndicate.
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || Digital work now seen as a common part of daily activities in middle and senior syndicates. Integration of digital tools into literacy and numeracy programs has been trialled and needs further development. || Class blog posts. || Ongoing development. ||
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || All classes have blogs of which some are updated regularly. || Class blogs. || Review the use of how class blogs are used and promoted. ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Teacher inquiry reflective summaries to be added to cluster wiki. || Cluster wiki ||  ||
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || All teachers promote and set standard for digital citizenship. || Class blog pages || Ongoing ||
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. ||  ||   ||   ||

Kairanga School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: The Lead Teacher has led staff meetings in the use of the VLN. ||  || Continue to use the VLN as PLN. || be planned for and included in all core areas of the curriculum. ||  ||   || learning which is happening in their class. || Kairanga wikis || Wikis will show examples of individual or small group learning, rather than more of a whole-class focus. || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || All teachers attended the Town & Country ICTPD Conference, choosing workshops that related to their areas of interest. All teachers attended half day and whole day workshops run by the Lead Teacher. || Town & Country Conference 2012 iLife 101 Kairanga ICT PD Day One 2012 || eLearning will remain a minor focus, with PD sessions during various staff meetings throughout the year. || and feedback. || StudyLadder and Google Docs are being used by several teachers within the school, allowing for online commenting and tracking of the students' progress. ||  || To explore Google Apps for Education and PD into using our SMS 'Assembly' for assessment. More student work displayed on class wikis. ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All teachers have joined the VLN and they receive ongoing emails from the interest groups they have joined.
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || There is an expectation that eLearning will
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || All classes have a wiki, that reflects the
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || All teachers completed a 'Teaching as Inquiry' project and embedded a Google Presentation onto the cluster wiki to share with others. || Kairanga, Takaro, Hokowhitu ||  ||
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || Teachers worked together to come up with a Digital Citizenship model that runs along-side our 'Kairanga Kid' model. || [[file:kairangaschool/CDP Kairanga E-Learning.pdf|eLearning CDP]] || To continue to teach students how to be a positive digital citizen, using the model. ||
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || Teachers see eLearning as an inherent part of teaching and learning. They love their new big screens, and use them everyday to model and share learning experiences with students. The demand for new technology is now coming from teachers, as they can see the benefits that they have for their students. ||  ||   ||

Longburn School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Teachers attending conference and workshops including LT at both IWB workshop and Fibre info session. ||  || on-goiing || and feedback. || Using Arbs, e-Asttle, Examplars, and Etap to promote quality assessment and feedback. Lead Teacher and Principal regularly working together to understand the functionality and potential of etap and sharing progress and understanding with other teachers. Our Behaviour Management data is stored on Google forms allowing quick and easy data analysis as part of PB4L-SW. ||  || on-going development ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || Teachers have joined groups on the VLN. || Teachers' names on VLN || on going ||
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || Planned ICT use included in teachers' planning. Use includes behaviour management website (Class dojo) in 2 classes, opportunities to use VLN to extend learning for students have been taken for Astronomy and Japanese, SKYPE to communicate with Japanese students in sister school. Frequently take up trial offers for websites to evaluate potential for student learning - most recently Sunshine online, Ziptales. || [[file:CyberSmart Curriculum - Room 1.docx]] ||  ||
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || No progress ||  || It is anticipated that blogs/wikis will be created as part of our Website re-design as we move from Ultrarnet to a fully school managed online presence ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Teacher inquiries shared with cluster || Cluster wiki ||  ||
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || Teachers teach and model DC within their classes ||  || on-going ||
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || Teachers are considerably more confident with ICT - understand the importance of Digital citizenship - constantly seek out digital opportunities to extend teaching and learning throughout the school. ||  ||   ||

Te Kura o Tākaro
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || Teachers have attended ICT Cluster conference and other ICT workshops at different school to extend their e-learning knowledge. There is also an ongoing PD for Activ-Board that the teachers participate in our school. ||  || ongoing || and feedback. || We are using ARBs, e-Asttle, NZMaths to promote quality assessments and feedbacks. ||  ||   ||
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All the staff are registered on the VLN site and individual teachers are participating in different learning communities. || VLN ||  ||
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || All planning (were necessary) have an ICT component in them to give the children more opportunities to develop or promote an ICT skill. || Teachersplanning ||  ||
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || Very slow progress. Some classrooms are regularly updating their page as others are not. Most of the blogs are still at its early stage since we just made the change from Ultranet to Blogs. One or two of the staff are still sure how to go about accessing their blog pages. ||  || More PD on how to use Blogs ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || Teachers have shared their teacher Inquiry to a small group within the cluster || Cluster Wiki ||  ||
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || Teachers are encouraged to utilise ICTs appropriately to model good digital citizenship. ||  ||   ||
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || Our school is progressing slowly. When we started this ICT journey, there were minimal ICT activities in the classrooms but now there are evidence of ICT or digital work in all classrooms. Some teacher have grown passion and became passionate about ICT which they have tried to utilise to the best of their ability which is evidence in some classroom more than others, but overall it is happening daily which is fantastic. With all the professional developments that the staff have attended or participated, they have further developed their knowledge in some areas of ICT. Overall, there have been a lot of changes such as moving from Ultranet to Blog, having a new website, change over of Server, new Activboards and TV installed in classrooms, most teachers have adapted to the changes and carried on while others are still slowly catching up with support from Lead teachers. ||  ||   ||

Tokomaru School
by using the VLN and cluster wiki to: Wiki link || Continue to use cluster wiki to share ideas. || learning knowledge, including cluster workshops and meetings. || All teachers attended all cluster meetings and workshops. They found some useful to utilise with their classes and these were discussed at staff meetings so all staff benefited from the knowledge. || Attendance at meetings || If there are further meetings with the cluster, we will endeavour to be there where we think it will be useful. || and feedback. || We used Powerpoint for reporting to parents this year. Students were able to enter their own goals to present to their parents.
 * **Cluster Success Indicators** || **Progress to date** || **Evidence** || **Next steps** ||
 * 1. Teachers will model a commitment to developing their own e- learning PLN
 * Reflect on professional readings
 * Participate in blended learning opportunities/discussion/collaboration
 * Have ongoing reflective practice about e-learning developments in their school || All staff have joined the VLN and some useful professional readings have been used for staff meeting discussions. ||  || Continue to use the VLN as a resource to find resources and readings regarding ICT development. ||
 * 2. Teachers’ planning and teaching will evidence the use of digital opportunities. || All unit planning has a space for any ICT elements to be included. || Example of unit plan || Continue to use ICT where appropriate in lessons. ||
 * 3. Active class blogs/wikis will be evident in all classrooms. || See blogs || See blogs || See blogs ||
 * 4. Teachers will share their digital developments with the cluster. || All teachers were involved in an ICT inquiry process. They shared their findings at cluster group meetings. || Meeting,
 * 5. Teachers will be provided with opportunities to enhance and extend their e-
 * 6. Teachers will use a range of digital opportunities to promote quality assessment

GoogleDocs has been used for writing activities in the senior classroom to give feedback to students. || Example of Powerpoint. || Continue to use ICTs where we can to provide quality feedback. || Teachers are encouraged to utilise ICTs appropriately to model good digital citizenship. Two classes used 'Hector's World' from NetSafe to model what good digital citizenship looks like. || [| Digital Citizenship] || Continue to promote and model digital citizenship. Junior class to participate in Digital Citizenship programme on NetSafe. ||
 * 7. Teachers will promote and model digital citizenship. || All teachers have signed an ICT User Agreement.
 * 8. Progress made across the 3 years of the cluster. || All teachers are more aware of the varying uses of ICT and how they can be used in the classroom to benefit the students' learning. ||  ||   ||