Spiral of inquiry: New Learning

What?

For ELT we did some new learning to help us in our spiral of inquiry.

So what?

My new learning was about using the literacy hub & progressions to help learners to improve in their writing. My planning was based on skills that learners had to learn from the literacy hub, then practice and prove to me.

Now what?

After the learners prove to me that they use the skills learnt from the literacy hub in their writing, they update their literacy progressions.

Netball PD

What? 

For ELT we learnt how to coach netball some PD to help us to become a foundation netball coach.

So what?

We did a targeted programme aligned to the New Zealand coach pathway. As a prerequisite we had to know the netball rules as well as NetballSmart which is growing physical capacity. I did the Year 3-4 coaching module to receive the foundation coach award.

Now what?

I will use this knowledge to help the learners to improve in their netball skills.

Home learning Grid

What?
For ELT today we discussed what we as a school could do to create a home learning grid that would work with our learners.

So what?
First we had a look at Lillico's homework grid. Then we discussed factors impinging on 'traditional' homework. Next we spoke about parent's views on homework. Thereafter we discussed the why and what about the homework grid. After that we discussed the recommended cells in Lillico's grid. Finally we came up ideas that we would like on our school grid.


Now what?
I am looking forward to trialling out the grid that we roll out at the start of term 4.

How to create a professional blog and site

What?
I worked together with another learning coach, James Morrow, to help the new learning coaches at our school to set up their professional blog and professional learning pathway.

So what?
First we helped them to create their professional blog and showed them how to do a blog post. We also showed them how to add labels on it so that it links to the professional teaching standards which can be found on their professional learning pathway.

Then we helped them to create their professional learning pathway using Google sites. They created five pages. The first page was the 'home page' on which they will write something about themselves. The next page was the 'I am capable page' to which they embedded our school's strategic leadership plan as well as their goal document. On the following page which was the  'I am collaborative page' they embedded our school's spiral of inquiry which is based on literacy this year. The following page that they created was  'I am connected page' on which they inserted an image of the Standards for the Teaching Profession and inserted a link to the professional blog. The last page that we helped them to create was the  'I am Curious page' on which they embedded our Professional learning design for 2018.

Now what?
The learning coaches will post regularly on their professional blogs and their professional learning pathways and if they require help, I will assist them.