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| Aroha Heaslip |
- Modern Learning Environments
- Assessment For Learning
- Maori Medium
Aroha educational background is very wide, working in mainly in Secondary, with a little of Intermediate, Co-curricular and establishment of a full immersion Kura Kaupapa.
The main message of today's presentation was around - having the learning as the 'captain' of their own education. That being questioning how we can empower our students to be active navigators of their learning.
What are the things that act as a barrier for students to operate with self efficacy in their learning? Typically this will be specific limitations around the individual students level of literacy.
What is our awareness as a community of students about the progression of akonga from our feeder schools? What are the implications exist for those students if they arrive at Waihi College and 'start from square one'?
The reflection of the presentation is found in 'front end' of the NZC where 'Effective Pedagogy' is outlined;
Aroha based much of her foundation of her discussion about what Waihi College presents in our prospectus and website about what is important in education here at school.
A core part of Aroha's workshops activities 'Coherence at Our School' - where staff divided into smaller groups and work through the shared understanding of how things are done here at Waihi College.
- How do we make available the information about our tamariki? Can we sharpen up our lines of communication?
- The use of exemplar materials - spelling out the steps through the curriculum. Our teachers know what "level four" looks like - but do our students?
- How can we get the staff to act consistently in a student centered manner?
- How do we make explicit use of learning intentions and success criteria?
- What are the core learning that needs to be the basis of education here at Waihi College (example of the use of being able to write coherent paragraphs)?
The latter part of the presentation we were presented with an open ended invitation - "What are the next steps that can be targeted for our community to move towards in the immediate future?"
- More access to the information (say with a rotated option class) knowing a little bit more about the group before we have them. (Bob's group)
- How can we extend success some teachers are having with certain students to be shared success with all teachers? (Aroha's observation)
- How can we increase the parental/whanau buy-in to education? (Levonne's group)
- Exemplars on the walls - students who say "why didn't I get a merit?" after the assessment - this should/could have been presented earlier to empower that student. (Peter's group)
- We could be talking more between groups. (Bridget's group)
- Use of the APP's task being a more deliberate method of presenting shared understanding. (Norm's group).
- If we can't see it how can the kids? (Jo's group)
- How can we improve the collaboration with the feeder primary schools - can this proactively be acted upon? (Sean's group)
- What about the 'uncontrollable' (e.g. truancy)... can our systems be improved? How can we make our flagging of issues more ready actionable? (Carlene's group)
- Developing of Ako meetings - especially in the start of the year. (Jay's group).
- Shared rubrics/exemplars across the learning areas. (Jay's group).
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| Archway of Teaching Capacity |
n.b Aroha's presentation was through an online program called 'Sway' this is a free product available from Office 365.
This post relates to RTC #7. "Promote a collaborative, inclusive and supportive learning environment." And ERO's School Evaluation Indicators Domain 4 "Responsive Curriculum, Effective Teaching and Opportunity to Learn - students develop learning to learn capabilities."
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