Gretchen's learning

Where am I now: own practice: improved wait time, more scripted lessons and planning infront of me, importance of questions, importance of basics right - social norms.  school-wide: interested in cross overs in Circle Time, Mantle of Expert, tier 2 interventions.  How to increase collaborative practice school wide? Goals - how can I best support new teachers - key first/next steps rather than wave of info.  Where else in our school setting can we improve dialogue/use pedagogical strategies? (i.e. staff meetings, with whānau) https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-productive-talk-looks-elementary-grades Thoughts for 2020: Oral language curriculum progressions? Should we be using the term 'talanoa' with our 'basic' discussion norms?  Or are we mis-using the term? TLIF team - cycle 3 to start term 1 so will schedule a meeting to share our planning template, expectations, resources and support

1. session with Heidi and Justine about Child Protection - gave us clarity around the process, reminder of how long the process can take - i.e. sometimes it seems there is nothing being done but you should be expecting cogs to be turning and something to be happening even if it's not visible immediately - clients confidentiality is important. As we discussed yesterday with Karen - a focus is for us to be objective and describe behaviours/changes we can see and/or hear. 2. Seesaw - Michelle introduced Seesaw for Skills - basics.  Alongside using Seesaw to record learning and share with whānau, we also talked about cybersmart teaching such as ask people before you take their photo.  All this will need to be taught to the children and some of it will be in our class matrices for using devices. Introduction to Seesaw for Skills. >As admin, we will need to ensure new students are getting enrolled into Seesaw, google accounts etc asap. >Add to my 'to do list' to updat...