PB4L Follow up from July Team Day Next steps - Staff Session week 4 Coke Bottle example re negative and positive comments etc Our tree - 5 values - essence/dispositions/clear relation to KC/what could stay and go? What are the 5 top behaviours that we would really like to focus in on present? How do these align to our values? Mudmaps/Duty staff session (NM) PB4L Lead Day August The neuroscience behind acknowledgements. The release of endorphins. Feel good factor. Effective positive feedback to children. What you SAY is really important - then acknowledge with a free and frequent (verbal every time!) Revise active supervision. How's it going? Zone one, blue court presence. 4/1 is the "cake." The free and frequent is the icing. What is the mud map data showing us? NM to use slideshow in a Monday afternoon session also. 4/1 focus in the classrooms also. Focus for class...
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CAIMS PD with Lester Flockton What kind of leader am I really? Educationist or Managerial Technicist Follower Leader or Leader Leader 1st priority. Know your school. Know your students. Know your teachers. Avoid being an educational swinger! In education's NZ system the pendulum is constantly swinging. We need to encourage and engage in critical analytical thinking and debate before deciding whether to swallow ie current DMIC in CoL. Conversations around the steadily decline in our NZ results, especially in Mathematics and English. NS had absolutely no effect on raising achievement. When considering NZC ... LOCALISATION - the educational needs/interests of our school's students. ie Enviro, Preschool Opps, WearArts, Culture ... The character of the school's community. The range and availability of local resources and the resourcefulness of school leaders and teachers. Examples: Our street names, our water ways, our commu...
Taking the lead … Celebrating our New Zealand Curricula Lester Flockton · Te Whāriki · The NZC · Te Marautanga o Aotearoa Have a clear sense of direction. What sort of leader I am? Educationalist or managerial technicist Follower leader or leader leader Courageous or timid Beware of Education’s Swingers! “Do you openly encourage and engage in critical analytic thinking an debate before deciding whether to swallow?” In which direction, whose direction and how? Important for the principal to be leading the direction, not just delegating to senior management. Different mindsets around NSs …. Focus in on what each curriculum area really means (without looking at achievement objectives). The essence of each area. Curriculum Literacy: 4 vision statements *8 principles 7 values 5 key comps 7+ learning areas D...
MAC Hui 9 April 2018 Janina Konia and Andre Konia (Ngai Tahu Education Strategy) Mātauraka Mahaanui (MOE and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu Ekea te pae kahukura "Ascend the heights of excellence" Ngai Tahu - the claim history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUW3sp2CKU0 Local Marae in Ōtautahi: 1 Port Levy - Koukouāreta 2 Akaroa - Ōnuku 3 Little River - Wairewa 4 Rāpaki - Ngāti wheke 5 Leeston - Taumutu 6 Tuahiwi Te Kete o Aoraki - MOU Te Rautaki Mātauranga Mātauranga Māori is about a Māori way of being and engaging in the world – in its simplest form, it uses kawa (cultural practices) and tikanga (cultural principles) to critique, examine, analyse and understand the world. It is based on ancient values of the spiritual realm of Te Ao Mārama Mō tātou, a, mō kā uri a muri ake nei "For us, and our children after us" To create pathways, prioritise success, promote innovation, provide leadership 56,0...
MAC Hui Damon Ritai (new facilitator) Karakia timatanga (opening) From front page of Ka Hikitia. Slides from presentation including resources to access. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XjH5LiFBo4rP3-yLmUeQq3N6ie-V0gVLZILoTEH0chQ/edit?ts=5b0b5078#slide=id.p Ngā rangatira mo āpōpō - the chiefs of tomorrow. Pepeha for our school/CoL Ko Maugatere te maunga (Mt Grey) Nga Tiritiri o te moana ngā pae maunga (Southern Alps) Ko Rakahuri te awa (Ashley) Ko Takitimu te waka (canoes coming south with ngai tahu descendants) Ko Ngai Tahu te iwi Ko Ngāi Tūāhuriri te hapū Ko Tuahiwi te marae Ko te puna waiora o hereora te kura Tihei mauri ora. Next step to look at this in CRP PLG. To use when we are visitors on a marae. Kupu discovered NZ. Came in 7 plus canoes to various places in the NI. Whakapapa - how can we bring the stories from our whānau out and build connections between people. Could we do this whakapa...
MAC Hui 25 June Outline of the day My reflections I need to get my hands back on my copy of this Matariki book and re-read it. Sharing of Taonga a useful exercise to do with Breens staff early next term. "Know your own heritage the first step in being able to understand the cultures of others." Kāhui Ako karakia and waiata Catch up with Damon on 26 June In the kapa haka space - original programme School Haka with Matariki hangi next week Mana Enhancement model Chinese visitors - whānau class as tuakana Walking in two worlds - marae trip for our teachers? Tyrell - success in Te ao Maori. What about in the pakeha world? How to replicate the values of the marae in the classroom? Seeing another side of our kids. Building a model for wellbeing at Breens which reflects taiako and school values. Whānau student voice. What could we do more of in the classroom space to reflect the values/feeling in whānau class? Houtu document for BOT....