PBL Meeting 21/9/17

PBL network meeting

Term 3 2017

Present - Silverdale, Glamorgan, Mairangi Bay, Willow Park, Forrest Hill, Dairy Flat, Northcote, Coatesville, Orewa, Torbay, Milford, Wainui and Stanmore Bay

Another great turnout, almost 60 people Wow!- Thank you everyone for being so passionate about PBL!

A huge thank you to Mairangi Bay for being wonderful hosts and being so willing to share.

Mairangi bay shared some great photos of PBL in action and explained how PBL looks like in their classes. They call it Discovery Time. Provocations were discussed - Teacher would find equipment / resources following an interest expressed the day before and often would find a lack of interest because ‘that was yesterday,’  Their PBL program is still evolving and they are trying to add something new to the program each term.
Students planning – just like teachers need to plan students also need to plan their work, letting them show off their planning has helped create motivation for doing this.

Year 2 classes will be starting PBL soon, need to look at equipment for Year 2 as need next level up of equipment, their amazing caretaker has built a lot of equipment for them which is rotated every 5 weeks between NE Year 1 classes

Main aspect coming out of PBL is the social skills. The kids love it, favourite time of day.

We then had time to look at numerous classrooms (it is always inspiring to see how other schools set up their rooms and what equipment they have)

Using Seesaw

This week we started using Seesaw in Room 9

What a cool way to communicate with parents! I am managing to post to families most days whether it is reading groups or a photo of some cool work and the families are really responding! I much prefer this as a way to quickly share learning with parents it is much easier then a blog. This image is after the first week - I can't wait to see how much better it is next week!

Amy -

Wow, what a week! Here’s your weekly Seesaw summary for Room 9 Torbay School.

Sep 4 - Sep 11 in Room 9 Torbay School

11 New Posts

10 Likes

2 Comments

6 Family Visits

Maths Observation

Observation in Nikki's class - place value

Similar to what I am teaching - refined questioning and resources

Make - number cards to 100 so they can be given a number on a square rather then two cards.

After seeing this I am reassured about how I am teaching I just need to...

Rethink planning - more space to move students around in groups rather then being stuck in groups.

Highlight the students I am working with so everyone is covered

more independent games that are worthwhile

Associate Teacher Meeting Notes

Associate teacher meeting notes

Notes re-written to help other teachers from the course attended at AUT

Asia NZ PD

Disruptors- things that change the way we interact

• Internet- ability to connect
• Work and trade is globalized
• Aging- life expectancy is rising
• Accelerated technoloical change
• Mobile internet
• Automation of work
• Rapid Urbanisation
• Happening mostly in China and asian countries
• People moving from rural areas into the cities is pulling them out of poverty
• Rapid rise of the middle class in Asia Pasific- more so than any other country
• With economic growth comes cultural influence
• Since Asia will be the largest source of economic growth it is safe to say they will begin impacting more of the cultures worldwide
• Currently- 12% new zealanders at asian descent
• Global Competency
• A push to create an inclusive practises
• Openess to different cultures
• Interacting with people of other cultures
• Start with what is in your own culture
• For children to be culturally competent they need to first understand their own culture

Why will asia matter to our students

• Global competency
• Rapid rise of middle class in asia
• Cultural diversity in new zealand
• Jobs and future careers

What can we do to improve

• Incorporate asian culture, history, and language
• Recognising the diverse parts of asian culture to connect to student interest
• Help students recognise the importance of asian cultures
• Infusing and blending asian content into study
• Using members of the community to help engage students

What Asia New Zealand Offers

• Teacher trips to Asia
• Indonesia Cultural Connections
• Stay with a homestay teacher and go to school with them
• Working to decide ways to link up classes in Indonesia and New Zealand
• Building relationships with Sister Schools
• Events
• Online teaching resources
• Country Maps
• Fund school events for students
• School consultations and presentations

asianz.org.nz