Meetings

Areas for reflection and consideration from Nick’s feedback.

· Significant positive progress · Strategic planning in place – how can we ensure these continue to be living documents. //Start of sessions – how is your plan going? Now have increased awareness. Chance to reflect, revisit and look at timelines (in a term and a half). Need for leadership development and support.// · Development of a more needs based PD programme – //better at identifying things we need to develop, need to go deeper into certain areas. Don’t see that we are getting a lot out of the cluster at the moment. Have specific sessions ie. Like other cluster – use internal strengths. Feedback from classroom teachers – whose role is this? Set a week (Term 1) as an ICT staff meeting week with a range of meetings across the cluster – largely led by Lead Teachers. Developments from this year have set us up to move forward. Need to be selective at times. How do we develop the inquiry teacher approach – action plan – improved clarification – for 2011 but must know this year.// · The LT programme has provided cross cluster sharing opportunities and learning within the group. Professional readings – Allan’s emails? //One or two a term – use the LT network. To be trialled in Term 4// · Involving other teachers – cluster meetings have now started this. //August 3 started this.// · Developing collaborative learning as an integral part of the programme. //Developing – talk to LTs// · Use of the wiki to capture/develop professional readings – pedagogy discussions. · Capturing teacher voice? //We need to have a structure - Allan will develop under Milestone 2.// · Use of conferences to provide impetus and information. //Recommend management group look at planed options for cluster. This will enable cluster budgeting and school planning. Meaningful reporting back is non-negotiable.// · End of year required to report against all cluster goals. //Sub headings on the wiki with individual school contributions?// · Revisit the ICTPD Self Assessment rubric. //To be covered with the LTs// · Employment of a cluster facilitator. Feeling stretched as a group of lead teachers. //Cross pollination. Support for the employment of a FT to work around and across the schools. Work specifically with the LTs – individual needs based. Look for commonalities that may be worked across the cluster. Might different ways of working. Reality hit this year as some of the things have not gone as planned. Need to increase the ICT focus for 2011.//

//One option – internal person – co-ordinator OR cluster facilitator.// //Visit lead teachers in schools – support, ICTPD, cross cluster info sharing, needs, strengths.// //Running and/or organising cross cluster programmes.// //Organising LT days.// //Attend management meetings.// //Promote, support cluster strategic plans.// //Support the development of milestones.// //Managing cross cluster collaborative learning 'activities'//

//Need to look at:// //Personnel cost// //How many LT meetings – change timing.// //Release time for LTs// //Release time for LTs to work with teachers.// //Management time// //Cross cluster// //Other (course, CORE programme,) etc. costs//

Other areas to be covered Question of shared purchase - //a space to be developed on the wiki where schools can list items that they have on their expenditure plans for the year.//

Specialist support. //Applications can be made to the cluster.//

ICTPD Management Meeting August 11th.
Central Normal @ 9.00 am

Agenda 1. Looking Back: Milestone 1 Report -Discussion on feedback from Nick Rate.

2. Looking Ahead: Milestone 2 Report. - what needs to be done from now until report date. - refer to ICTPD contract

2.5 How are your strategic plans going? School feedback. What is on target? What needs tweaking? What might change?

2.75 We have 10 weeks to start thinking about the structures for 2011.

3. Online digital learning policies Digital Citizenship

Respect youself  Protect yourself  Respect others  Protect others  Respect Intellectual Property  Protect Intellectual property. Develop some I will ... statements Some policies in kidspeak from Allanah (check out the Voicethreads at the bottom of the page.) Andrew Churches has developed a range of useful ideas to support digital learning.

3.5 [|National (as in US) Education Technology Standards for Principa]ls.

4. Have you tried [|Maths Buddy] (yr 5 +)

5. Tools for Schools - calendars and google docs (for a start) [|Maybe] Stephen asked about this [|sticky thing] - excellent questions let's try one. .media type="custom" key="6680889" 6.Looking ahead - might the new tablet be a $100 IWB??? media type="custom" key="6680955"

7. [|Developing Reading logs]

8. [|Professional reading with an NZ focus]

9. Have you explored our own NZ [|software for learning site] - this should be a pre budget and certainly pre-spend visit.

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[|A few other questions - look at the first few bullet points]. What do we need to know.

Lighting the way Lighting all of the bulbs!

Alastair's Ideas for the Variation...