Teacher Inquiry and reflective questioning

Staff meeting today was led by NpEW on reflective questioning and peer coaching

Wrote down strengths and weaknesses then fed back to partner- neutral

Looked at levels of questioning and wrote a series of questions based on them.

Asked partner the questions.

Discussed challenges of questioning. We looked at and developed and questioned the use of the following.

Found it tricky to not want to show agreement or disagreement or to add own thoughts or interrupt when listening and difficult when not given any acknowledgement when talking. Something I need to learn. Will also try and use these reflective questions with the class, may help in my inquiry this year on self-directed learning.

What is the vision for our school? TOD 2017

An interesting day looking at the our mission and vision statement and what we see as our vision moving forward. Having read the book The Leader in Me and listened to the talk from Western Heights Primary I really like the 7 Habits and their initiatives especially as it fosters an inside out approach, starting with teachers and that it is not a curriculum, it is integrated throughout the school and community. I will try and introduce this into my practice and life this year. A summary of the day can be viewed here

ULearn 2016

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-M3neOoHjNFdG3Cxz1_sirlNcbv7bqjjPAP9-53DQ4s/edit

End of Mindlab

http://ncarrington-apc.weebly.com/

The above site was used to reflect on applied practice for the last 16 weeks of the Mind lab course on applied practice in context and also includes a reflection of the course.

Using ICT to enhance Literacy workshop

Had a great evening presenting 2 workshops at this event organised by the Waiariki literacy association. It was an honor to be asked and great to meet and share with other teachers.

Reading to Learn TOD

Reading to Learn PD workshop

Melanie Winthrop

Teacher only Day 19/5/16

Important to integrate different reading genres and across curriculum.

Engagement-thinking critically, making the code, managing meaning.

What is my response, what do I think?

Many strategies working together-children need to know this when comprehending.

Reading and writing as interactive tools.

Discuss with children why reading a book set up success.

In silent reading go round and question children on what and why they are reading and gow they might have worked things out.

High 5 strategies

1. Activating background knowledge
2. Questioning-who is asking
3. Analyzing text structure
4. Mapping a text
5. Creating mental images

Critical literacy- what is the information, what is the purpose, what is the author's intent/message.

Mind Lab

Work covered in the first 16 weeks on the Mind lab course.