GAFE Summit - Day 1

Outline of the Day:

• Keynote - Falling in Love with the Future
• Breakout 1 - Genius Hour
• Breakout 2 - Google Classroom Introduction and Best Practice
• Breakout 3 - Assessment in the Digital Age
• Breakout 4 - Creative Agency
• Demo Slam

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Highlights:

• Took a tour of Hobsonville Point Secondary School at 7:30am when it was very quiet and empty
• Was able to take some awesome pictures, check out the learning that is happening in the spaces and think about how we can transfer what is happening here to our ILC space.
• The food and service of staff/helpers was phenomenal
• Especially because I forgot my water bottle
• Every session I went to was amazing - Which very rarely happens, normally I find some stuff it aimed to low and other stuff I am always using
• I learnt lots of new tools, had time to play and explore, made new connections and reconnected with people I know from twitter and I consolidated lots of stuff that I am currently doing

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Reflective Thinking

Google Classroom

• Talk with Toni about using this for our ‘Chapter Chat’ group
• Would be great to use this smaller number of students as a trial group
• We can also use it to gain assessment and bring our option to the next level providing the teachers of the students with some quality feedback
• Once we get the hang of using it with our Chapter Chat group we can begin to use this with our class
• Setting assignments, using it as exit slips and entry slips
• Can we link it into Evernote?

Genius Hour

• Use the design thinking model as the beginning of this session (Ideation)

Assessment in the Digital Age

• Flubaroo
• Doctopus
• Edpuzzle
• Google Feud
• Quizizz
• Love this one - so much quieter and more engaging than Kahoot. Want to try this out
• Pear Deck
• Docentedu

Creative Agency

• An insane amount of tools shared - very exciting!
• Looking forward to having some play time to check these out.
• Give students time to explore chrome extensions and see what they find

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To Do:

• Flick through the Genius Hour resources
• Might be able to find a quality model to share with students
• Make a resource about the 4 main ideas/thinkings for a successful Genius Hour session
• Create a Quizizz
• Create a peardeck
• Both of these could be used during an E-Learning workshop on exit slips/assessment
• Add all today’s tools to Only 2 Clicks  

Maeroa Intermediate: Preparing our Students for their Future

Maeroa Intermediate: Preparing our Students for their Future 

• Enacting our vision, values. learner profile ✓ 
• Fixed Vs. Growth mindset ✓ 
• 7 principals of learning ✓
• Collaboration ✓
• Co-teaching ✓
• Learner Agency ✓
• Learning Spaces ✓

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Our Vision: To develop confident learners who are able to take their place in communities

Our cornerstones: Positive citizens, organised learners, critical explorers, effective communicators

Team Summary: What have we done to enact our vision and values this year?

This year we have unpacked what the school shield symbolises and its history, we have unpacked the cornerstones through group work of looks like, sounds like and feels like. We created a rubric from the cornerstones and used this for the students to set goals.  We have unpacked the school motto 'I will note cease from mental fight. We have included on Class Dojo, behaviours rewards that link to the cornerstones and vision. We have set up high expectations of what this looks like at Maeroa in terms of actions, book work learning, moving around the school etc. The learner profile is included on all unit plans and is openly discussed daily. The language is used and integrated into classroom life.

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Fixed Mindset Vs. Growth Mindset:

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7 Principals of Learning:

What is required in our teaching and learning programmes that ensure our student's are set up for their future?

1. Learners at the centre 

2. Learning social

3. Emotions are integral 

4. Recognise individual differences 

5. Stretching all students

6. Assessment for learning 

7. Building horizontal connections 

Link to the Reading

Where would you put these 7 principals on a continuum?

Reflective Questions:

• Where would you place yourself in terms of each of these seven principals?
• What is your evidence for this positioning?
• What are your next steps?

Team Tanekaha's Continuum: What we consider least important to most important

Note: We consider all of these principals to be interwoven with one another and are all of equal importance

Building horizontal connections  > Stretching all students > Learning social > Emotions are integral  > Assessment for learning  > Recognise individual differences  > Learners at the centre 

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Links from the workshop