Focii for Professional Development 2019
Goals:
To consolidate and improve student achievement in Writing, focusing on language acquisition, development, sustaining and transfer supported by Dr Jannie van Hees
To raise student achievement outcomes in Reading through the development of formative practice and systematic learning design
To raise student achievement outcomes in Maths through focused Mathematics PLD supervised by Drs Roberta & Jody Hunter via the DMiC Programme
To continue to inquire into and develop the Manaiakalani Learn, Create, Share pedagogy across the school, support the Cybersmart curriculum and develop Digital Fluency for new staff
To improve Wellbeing of learners, whanau and staff with the development of an in-school strategy linked to an area wide strategy
To continue to develop Teaching as Inquiry for Pt England staff as well as the Kahui Ako staff and to have these connected and coherent
To continue to investigate and develop culturally responsive practises and pedagogy across the curriculum and across all of school life
This Professional Development is being overseen by the school management team.
Learning Behaviour/ Managing Self/ Setting of Norms
Cultural Responsiveness
Wellbeing/ Hauora
Language Acquisition
Professional Development Mathematics Structure:
DMiC Mentors will set the scene via Staff Meetings and then spend regular scheduled time in all classrooms supporting teachers. DMiC staff will also provide capability building input at Teacher Only Days
Professional Development Writing Structure
Jannie van Hees and Woolf Fisher Research Centre Staff, Drs Rebecca Jesson and Aaron Wilson will supply direct input twice a term to all Kahui Ako staff. Jannie van Hees will support the SMT via staff and team meetings by supplying rich content based examples. The SMT will analyse and synthesise learnings from Dr van Hees and WFRC and will focus the staff on formative practice and responsive learning design. Walk-throughs from T2 will support this development.
Professional Development Reading Structure
Initial commentary and reporting will come from the WFRC Team and will be discussed at Kahui Ako Level as well as at whole school and team by team level. The SMT will apply formative practice and responsive learning design capability at a whole staff, team and individual level. Walk-throughs from T2 will support this.
Professional Development Manaiakalani Learn, Create, Share Structure
All staff new to Manaiakalani will attend 2 days orientation in January 2019. All staff new to Manaiakalani will receive in class mentoring during their 1st year. This will typically take the form of the Manaiakalani Mentor modelling the delivery of the Cybersmart curriculum in those classes. Manaiakalani makes termly after-school toolkits available, the weekly 9 week Digital Fluency Intensive course for nominated staff, a termly focused staff meeting, professional learning groups and on-call assistance at any time.
Professional Development Wellbeing Structure
A Kahui Ako based working party will be established to design and help launch the integrated area wide strategy. Pt England School will focus on the same 3 items as the area strategy; -Healthy, Kai, Healthy Activity, Healthy Weight. The actual unit of work will go live in the 2nd semester of 2019. Pt England School will also re-run, using our own design and build, the Student Wellbeing Survey, in T1, in order to gather more meaningful information. We will use this data to inform our development design. Pt England School will re-instate our Student led Health team to ensure we are gathering and acting on Learner Voice, and in order to build engagement, empowerment and capability among our student body. We will also re-run the Staff Wellbeing Survey in T2, once we have tested the rebuild of the student survey.
Professional Development Teaching as Inquiry Structure
All staff will be guided toward a valuable inquiry focus that must be of value for them in their teaching practice and must also be addressing one of the school's priority development areas. Staff meet with the A.P. supervising the inquiries to talk through the inquiry focus and and challenges. Inquiries must link evidence to practice in meaningful ways and must meet the criteria promoted by the NZC, Woolf Fisher Research Centre and be coherent with the requirements we are placing on Kahui Ako Staff. Inquires will be evidence based and should be firmed up by week 6 or 7 of T1. Inquiry focused staff meetings will be held twice termly, one near the beginning of the term to set/discuss the direction and one near the end of the term to present findings and hypotheses to peers and colleagues. Teacher Inquiries will be blogged publicly and need at least twice termly updates, though monthly is to be preferred.
Professional Development Culturally Responsive Pedagogy & Practise Structure
This area is 'sustaining and developing' area in 2019, rather than a major focus. These issues will be referred to regularly at staff and team meetings. We will remind ourselves during T1, of what Tapasā is asking of us. We will remind ourselves (via staff meeting) during T2, of what Ka Hikitia is asking of us. We will ensure that 'The Pt England Way' theme in T1, provides multiple opportunities for our learners to connect with their culture, their whakapapa, their origin and their place. We will work on and continue to promote a blended cultural approach that works for our learners. We will pursue culturally appropriate pedagogy via DMiC, Manaiakalani Learn, Create Share and the responsive learning design and practice we apply to Reading and Writing.