Cybersmart staff meeting - Term 4 2021

This term's staff meeting focused on being Cybersmart.   Being digitally savvy when you're interacting online is important for everyone, teachers and students alike.   

The Cybersmart staff meeting was an opportunity to revisit what this looks like in every day practice.  We then discussed ways that teachers could integrate more of the Cybersmart elements from the Cybersmart curriculum.  

End of year admin resources for students also featured.  Before the end of the school year, students need to make sure their Google Drives are organised and all files are put into subject folders in preparation for Hapara archiving.  Additionally, any draft blog posts need to be completed, labelled and published.  

Create staff meeting - Term 2 2021

There were t0o many events on the school calendar in term two so the Create staff meeting took place in term 3, the week after the country went into the second nationwide lockdown.    With teachers taking their classes online, this particular staff meeting was an opportunity to share and discuss ideas on how Create activities can engage students.  

The slide deck has a lot of resources and ideas. 

Term 2/3 staff meeting: CREATE

With our school being in lockdown for the majority of term 2, the Manaiakalani CREATE staff meeting  was postponed until term 3.   The professional development focus was based on how to amplify and personalise students' digital learning objects DLO.  Recent work by Dr Naomi Rosedale of Woolf Fisher shows teachers can accelerate students' understanding and engagement by raising the bar with student's DLOs.  Encouraging students to create DLOs as teaching resources helps increase students' understanding

Professional Learning Group: 

High Leverage Practice

On the 28th July, Bay of Islands College held the KEN PLG on High Leverage Practices.  Teachers worked in groups to determine what high leverage practices looked like in the classroom.