Intended+Outcomes

toc **__Intended Outcomes__**

**How will we achieve this?**
**What are the intended outcomes?**

E-learning will be an integral part of the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum / Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, Ka Hikitia, Pasifika Education Plan and the Literacy and Numeracy Strategy.

Leadership:

 * School Leaders will be flexible and open to continued improvement in their e-learning pedagogy to maximise student achievement in 21st century classrooms.
 * Principals will be empowered to provide leadership and direction to the implementation of e-learning in their schools.
 * Principals, Senior Management and Lead Teachers will lead schools in critically evaluating and implementing ICT/e-learning applications in the teaching and learning process.
 * School management will monitor student achievement data in foundation learning areas to gauge effectiveness of ICT strategy on teaching and learning.
 * Lead teachers from each school will be empowered to lead the development of e-learning within their schools, through providing professional development and guidance.
 * Boards of Trustees and School Management will provide the capacity to establish and review systems and resources (hardware, software, policy, guidelines) for safe e-learning.
 * Principals and Boards will have systems in place to ensure long term sustainability of ICT use, including development of policies, teacher induction processes, equipment management plans and resourcing. This will include effective use of SMS to monitor achievement patterns, to provide evidenced based data to inform planning and development.
 * Leadership will develop and implement ICT strategies to increase effective sharing of information that will lead to a step up in performance of education system for Māori students, their whānau and communities, and Pasifika students and their communities.

Teachers will:

 * Be flexible and open to continued improvement in their e-learning pedagogy to maximise student achievement in 21st century classrooms.
 * Demonstrate understanding of current pedagogical theory and practice, and the benefit of ICT tools used to enhance children’s learning and achievement, including:
 * The nature of 21st century educational needs.
 * Providing for personalised learning, collaboration and communication.
 * The use of ICT/-e-learning in the fostering of students' key competencies.
 * Integrating inquiry learning, including critical thinking skills.
 * Fostering creativity.
 * Digital literacies.
 * Creating flexible use of classroom environments for optimum learning experiences.
 * The use of student data to maximise learning opportunities for all students.
 * Use of e-portfolios to provide increased opportunities for students to demonstrate and celebrate achievements.
 * Be active learners, as role models to students and their community.
 * Create supportive environments to encourage students to explore and use ICT in their learning activities.
 * Celebrate, reflect and report with peers about their learning and influence of this on student achievement.
 * Explore and use ICT to lift the quality of, and support, Maori language learning and teaching
 * Implement school systems and understand the pedagogy behind a safe e-learning environment.

Students will:

 * Use an increasing range of ICT to support e-learning across the curriculum, as confident, collaborative and connected learners, especially in foundation learning skills (literacy and mathematics).
 * Develop 21st century skills, e.g "Digital Literacy, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication, High Productivity" (NCREL, 2003)
 * Add their voice to authentic audiences across the globe.
 * Use e-portfolios to celebrate and reflect on their learning.
 * Develop key competencies to enhance lifelong learning skills.
 * Be able to:
 * Access high quality learning of Te Reo Māori
 * Use e-learning as a mode for learning Te Reo Māori.
 * Access their languages.
 * Apply their understanding of their responsibilities to being an active and safe member of the e-learning environment.

Cluster will:

 * Establish collaboration and sharing across the cluster that will enable schools, and teachers, to view ‘best practice’ classrooms and ICT use, resulting in clusterwide high standards of student achievement, teacher effectiveness, ICT application and long term sustainability.
 * Teachers will be involved in face to face and online communities of practice that support the exchange of knowledge, information and reflective practice.
 * Support schools to take responsibility for Māori and Pasifika students’ presence, engagement and achievement through ICT.
 * Cluster workshops will assist teachers to:
 * develop knowledge and understanding of a wide range ICT/e-e-learning applications.
 * successfully and purposefully implement these in their classrooms to improve student achievement.

Schools will:

 * Develop appropriate infrastructure, including hardware, software, maintenance systems, networks and funding for equipment replacement to provide reliable and sustainable learning experiences and programmes.
 * Make best use of resource personnel in all schools across the cluster, through the sharing of expertise.
 * Be assisted to develop a Professional Development Plan, that will meet cluster goals, as well as their own goals, including;
 * Development of a school-wide philosophy and vision of ICT use.
 * Focus points such as effective pedagogies and use of ICT for quality learning and teaching.
 * Implementation timelines and outcomes.

Community:

 * Our parent communities will be supported to have access through interactive technologies to relevant information about their child’s learning and to be able to communicate with staff about this in a way which maintains personal privacy and dignity.
 * Development of Learning Management Systems/e-portfolios within each school will run hand-in -hand with the development of learning programmes.