ART Year 12's

ART Program The Next Steps

We have a new ART (Achievement, Retention and Transition) and Vocational Pathways coordinating supervisor assigned to us from MOE.  Her name is Dr Christine Pritchard and her role is to guide the programs we have in place for achieving 85% of our students getting Level Two.

Here is a timeline that I've created to try and illustrate the events that we'll put in around our students (those that we identify).  The mantra for the ART programme is the idea of working with the three N's (names/numbers/needs).

The intent at this stage of the year is to narrow down our year 12 cohort into those 25-35 students that we will assign individually to teachers (hoping for teachers to have a one to one relationship).  These teachers will mentor these year 12's through this year of schooling.  This is a too big of a job just for a dean or for the learning advisors - although they are key stakeholders too.  

This week we will be looking at our cohort and which students are in greatest need (remember that we're looking at the amber students (those on the margins of passing).  What I am hoping for is that for these students we will have one staff member each who will be able to engage with these students about their progress.

Green - Those students who will pass.
Amber - Those students that are on the margin.
Red - Those students that won't pass.


This post is related to RTC #1. "Establish and maintain effective professional relationships focused on the learning and well-being of ākonga." And RTC #7. "Promote a collaborative, inclusive and supportive learning environment part ii. foster trust, respect and cooperation with and among ākonga."

ART - Achievement Retention Transition - June Audit

How To Use Kamar Interview

I've set up on Kamar a place where staff (ideally the Learning Advisor) can sit down with a year 12 student and go through some questions about how their year is progressing towards NCEA level two. 

This is a pretty big job (about 5-10 minutes per student).  So ideally we want the Learning Advisor to pick out those students that they feel, probably indicated by their reports, may be in trouble with NCEA level two. 

I've set up a slide show that will show the teacher how to get to the right place on Kamar...



I'm available during morning Learning Advisory times to come an assist any year 12 Learning Advisors with these interviews.  The better the quality of these discussions the better our interventions can be for these students. 

Achievement - Retention - Transition

One of the things that I really wanted to learn about recently is the use of web based learning.  I've had a go at www.myportfolio.co.nz website and also moodle.  Both of these systems had some benefits but I found that they were quite 'clunky'. 

With the change in my role I felt that this would be a good time in my career to try out an educational blog.   I'm in no way a techno pro - and I've been learning as I go. 

All of the pd sessions that I'll be doing (plus a few other little things) are recorded electronically.  I thought however that I'd try an open source idea.  

The presentation that I'm going to do today is saved on the s drive under admin - pd - staff presentations.  But I've also included it here online by using a slide generator (free web site "slideshare.net"). 

All done in a matter of between five and ten mins.