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Eskdale Team A Meeting Notes
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Resilience to
failure- a skill set which can be taught or a learned behaviour?
This one is worth watching from a principal from USA
at a Ted talk.
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We are expected
to have completed our LLP’s for each of our writing target students and next
Team A meeting we will be bringing them along to share these.
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Anyone got any
resources/ ideas about how we can start the scanning process? Alex/ Debbie
shared the grid about students ideas, interests, family for writing ideas.
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Rich Task
assessment: We created (or Debbie gave us) our idea for the rich task
assessment showing understanding and learning on the big idea ‘community’
Rich
task outline:
The process is the rich task. Each
class will:
-identify problems in our community/
local contexts
-focus on a problem that has been
identified and create a plan to meet this problem.
-Students will follow their interests
and can work independently, or in small or large groups.
-The documentation of this process
will help with reflection/ assessment.
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IPAD app
sharing Collaboration.
Debbie shared:
-Scratch junior is an intro to coding.
Kits are needed as well as laptops, but it is still worth looking at.
-Memory king is a fun app to help with
memorising skills.
-Egg words is an app for high frequency
words.
-Phonics genius is an app for phonics
acquisition.
-Pieces basic and Place value are math apps.
-Kahoot has been used by Debbie’s class
as a way of focusing on questioning skills on a book.
Justin shared:
-Website
called Little Kids News about kid
friendly news.
Catherine shared:
-There
was a postcard app which is very good for writing.
-Write about this NZ is a good writing
app.
-Literacy
online- not an app but is internet access to ready to read texts online
Mike shared:
-Aljazeera news online has large
picture, and simple caption for looking at news globally (caution on content
still needed though)
Emma shared:
-Little writer for developing
handwriting skills
-Pocket Phonics and Caterpillar Phonics are two apps for
phonics development also.
Alex shared:
-Monster math is a gamified app to
develop basic facts skills.
Holly shared:
-Ready to Read texts on the app store
with built in activities and listening post function.
-Holly
also shared a magenta word playlist created on youtube.
Jo shared:
-Sunshine classics is an app to access
online copies of texts with inbuilt activities. The username/password is:
Eskdaleschool ,
ateam
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1.
establish and maintain
effective professional relationships focused on the learning and well-being
of ākonga
i. engage in ethical, respectful, positive and
collaborative professional relationships with:
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ākonga
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teaching colleagues, support staff and other
professionals
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whānau and other carers of ākonga
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agencies, groups and individuals in the community
The
minutes for the collaboration part of the meeting (IPAD app sharing) and Rich
task construction are an example of PTC criteria 1. These notes have been
created as evidence.
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Planning in
team a folders for reading, writing and math for weeks 1-4- Tristan is
checking this week for them.
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Has everyone
added the student name etc on the shared doc for likely target students for
reading/math/ (writing is the current target students for our inquiry.)
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Tui, Kea and
Kotare are away this Thursday for Beach Ed day so our swimming spots will be
free.
Added:
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Noted by most
that the swimming timetable is cramped, perhaps classes may get longer
swimming slots and have alternate days for swimming.
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Justin
mentioned some health and safety issues with the pool area- he will mention
it to Tristan/ Wally.
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Junior swimming
sports moved to week 7 to allow for equipment to be taken out of the pool
area, and to allow for more practice. Kotare, Kea and Tui to meet this week
after school to organise this.
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Mike is looking
for other staff members interested in collaborating in project based learning
development. No takers in team a, will try team b.
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Saturday, 4 March 2017
Syndicate Team Collaboration Example
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