Visible Learning

It has been a busy week where a lot of visible learning has taken place.
At our staff meeting   Aspects of Effective Practice
We had a student share her Leadership Passport and she shared how she had been gathering evidence of her learning. Eileen shared how she had been mentoring the student in gathering evidence.
We had Anna share the presentation that she put together for the MOA cluster.


In addition I loved seeing how Ginny made her learning visible by sharing her Pepeha. So do check it out.

MOA Cluster

On Wednesday 6th of May we had 40 educators visit us from the Moa Cluster in South Taranaki. 

The three schools involved were Matapu, Opunake, Auroa.

They were with us from 9.00am until 11.00am.

I forgot to get a photo of all the vans in the top carpark.

Connections were made via twitter from Myles Webb @NZwaikato so it was great to meet up with him again. I found out that they are #3Dprinting buffs so it was fabulous to have Heath Chittenden @macca24129 spend time with me and give me a quick demo of our brand new printer. 

In addition to this dedicated group of educators breaking outside their echochamber, we had Hazel Abraham  ‏@HazelAbraham1  from Herekino School who is on an an educational sabbatical.

Below you can check out the slides from the day created by our hosting teachers and principal.

I also forgot to get a photo of the scrumptious morning tea coordinated by Gayle.

Video is the new text, a Q & A session with Sonya.

This session is a Q & A session about Youtube. Let Sonya Van Schaijik know your burning technical questions and she will endeavour to answer them during the session. Bring your youtube account and channel and join her and she showed some tips that have learnt along the way of creating nearly 80x 3 min clips of teacher’s stories.

Connect Collaborate Co-Create Celebrate with like-minded educators using Google+ Hangout

TeachMeetNZ is a professional learning community and environment that provides asynchronous and synchronous opportunities for New Zealand teachers to connect, collaborate, create and celebrate with other educational professionals beyond their own school communities. Sonya Van Schaijik showed how she plans for and runs a #TeachMeetNZ event using Google+ Hangout. Live global guests joined the hangout. Then participants were invited to a hangout and were shown how to stream and record a google+ hangout.

Making Learning Visible using Student Voice and Digital Badges.

At Newmarket School we are using a variety of google tools to amplify student voice such as blogger and google apps for education. This year student badges have been created as part of our Positive Behaviour for Learning Journey. Waveney Bryant will share with you how student voice is conveyed through a Leadership Passport and through the allocation of digital badges. Children can download the badge onto their google drive and add them to their portfolio. The use of badges keeps the learning visible.

You can read her blog reflection here about presenting at the GAFEsummit 2015.

Connecting the dots: Using Hapara - Teacher Dashboard Session Description

What happens when you ask for something and actually get it? Shock. Awe. Panic. Excitement. Most of all, the overwhelming realisation that your practice is about to take a huge turn and will most likely never be the same again. This is Anna Speir's story of making the leap into one to one devices and starting our school's first digital classroom, using Hapara - Teacher Dashboard and her challenges and successes along the way.

Here is Anna's reflection from the GafeSummit that she presented at.

TeachMeetNZ Celebration