Meeting+Minutes

29/10/09 Present: MNL, MMR, DTM Apologies: Ann, Marion

Thanks Marion for putting presentations on here. Can we please invite Michelle to the Wiki? Diane has told Rikki and Avatar that they are presenting at next staff meeting. Phil has given us a copy of some information fromTechlink relating to key competencies. MNL to copy and distribute to rest of group.

Hi, its Anne reading the discussion.

Good to see the roster of people. Are we going to video the presentations and put them up on the wiki? If so someone will need to get a video recorder organised.

Marion 8/09/09 editing here: Should we introduce the Key Competency Posters that we are developing, with Managing Self being the first, in Term 1 2010.

We have now introduced the __Underlying Principle of the Key Competencies__ to staff. We have a Term and a bit to consolidate these and develop strategies to embed these in teacher/classroom practice this year with the staff meeting presentations to keep their profile high on teacher. Does it make more sense to hold the student focussed posters until next year?

Diane editing here: Notice to staff drawn to make a presentation to staff: Staff Meeting Presentation

Following the staff meeting on 31st August, I was asked to draw two teachers for each staff meeting to talk about or demonstrate in a short presentation a learning activity which reflects a key competency.

The selected teacher is asked to take up to 5 minutes for the presentation. Please do not feel obliged to create a masterpiece. – just an activity that you have used that you believe is an example of how the students’ learning reflects the principles underpinning the key competencies.

ACTIVE - Students are “doing” – applying learning and using learning in a meaningful way - Students are generating knowledge through their participation in learning.

REAL/PURPOSEFUL - Students interact with others in real, authentic contexts - Connections are made between learning areas

RELEVANT - Learning is relevant to students’ lives now and supports their development as life-long learners

EMPOWERING - There is attention to developing students’ learning dispositions – their desire, inclination and will to learn

Monday 14 September: PHN, DHB

Monday 12 October : BOL, AvD

Monday 26 October (Labour Day)

Monday 9 November: ALG, RIB

Monday 23 November: PCL, TMR

Anne? editing here: Rest of 2009 Hi all, read the minutes and thought that this is what we agreed on


 * Principles that underpin the KCs**
 * Get the posters put up in all classrooms
 * Shoulder tap two staff to demonstrate an aspect of the principles that they have used in their teaching
 * Video these presentations and get them put online - tagged by the principle(s) they represent
 * Key Competencies**
 * Complete the posters and have them ready to introduce to the staff in order to raise awareness and develop a common understanding of the KCs
 * Examine ways of including student discussion of KCs and have them introduced at assemblies by students for students
 * Examine introducing a common approach to research in 2010
 * plan for ongoing work with all key competencies using staff meetings and the sharing approach in 2010 - 1 poster per term

3 September 2009 Present: MNL, MMR, DTM, APW Apologies: MLM

Update on where we are at for MMR. Marion presented at staff meeting on Monday with the poster and active learning. Do we want to assess the key competencies? Many schools are using portfolios to capture evidence of student learning. It is difficult to come up with a tick chart for assessing. Where are we at with posters? Managing Self poster is on track. APW spoke about the audit. We may wish to develop a common language around research. Brainstorm: Where to from here? We have examined the principles and how they relate as underpinning the key competencies. We have found a way of distributing these to teachers. How do we get common talk around that? We have a poster in progress re Managing Self. Should we develop posters for all? How will we now start using these resources to develop common language throughout the school? We should have a PD session around each of the Key Competencies as each poster is created. Sharing is crucial. We need to push this through so that everyone is sharing. Presentations need to reflect the principles. What does relevant mean? What does empowering mean? Look like? DTM will shoulder tap people as opposed to a roster. 2 per staff meeting. Developing people's understanding around the principles. Can we video presentations? Work towards Staff meetings as PD. People reflecting on their practice. 2010: Raising awareness, common language Develop a portfolio of examples of what people are doing. Knowledgenet? Shared files? Website? Several tags attached to examples. Introduce in assemblies to students. Students presenting?

Staff allocations to form classes - consideration given to strengths.

Thinking - Participating and Contributing - Relating to others - Managing self -

1 poster per term in 2010 Getting some consistency around some key areas, like research or thinking tools. Reinforcing these constantly. Getting students to work towards a communications research standard in Year 10.

20 August 2009 Present: MNL DTM MLM Apologies: APW MMR

Links added to resource page - TKI site valuable tool for discussion and ideas. Pull out any vital reading and add to the resource page. Principles underpinning the Key competencies to be turned in to A3 posters for every classroom. Viv to send MLM the letterhead/OC kowhaiwhai graphics. Next staff meeting working group to present posters to staff and reasoning with examples of 5 minute sharing of active learning. Other teachers to share at subsequent meetings (3 per meeting, 15 mins)

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//23rd July 2009 Present: APW MNL MLM Apologies: DTM

MLM to chair meetings.

APW: Key Competencies are cross curricular and they stand alone so we could take the audit and move on to full coverasge of the key competency in ways the students can identify and use in other contexts. Then we could move onto how and if we will assess the Key Competencies. ** MNL: How do we use them and to have a common language across the school. MLM:Common language, visual prompts, assesing key competencies to be deep and rich, plan of action track progress and delivery. Use to build up our culture in a positive way and that requires buy to the key competencies in by all. That we end up with a concrete resource for teacher use on time.
 * What do you see coming from this working group?
 * At present we have:**//

(Members to add more detail to this list )
 * A school audit, a superficial overview.
 * Key Competencies and a Curriculum for the 21st Century - Megan
 * Wainuiomata Document
 * Rosemary Hipkins – Key Competencies – Marion
 * Rosemary Hipkins – Assessment

Key competencies in place in learning from audit: Language and Symbols and text are being worked with on a daily basis ICT needs a focus - Key competencies to specifically support student skill development in this area Equitable access ??? What did this mean

ICT – check list (Marion to find her example)

It would be good to have Key Competency Posters for walls - that provide a common language for Otaki College staff and students. Also raise profile of the Key Competencies.