ICTClusterMeetingWestbrookSchool19May2010

Today the cluster met as Willow and colleagues from Sunset Primary were presenting charts that they had produced on SOLO Taxonomy so far.

Today I met Lorraine Watchorn for the first time. She will be our facilitator next year!

I thought the work that Sunset had done thus far with SOLO was fantastic. Their school had obviously taken SOLO on in a big way. They had rubrics for their school values which was on their report forms. They had created school wide rubrics on their Sustainability Unit with examples of activities the teachers could implement that covered pre-structural through to extended abstract. They had rubrics that were translated into te reo Maori. The reo teacher had a book that she pasted all rubrics into (Great idea)

Since Julie Mills SOLO workshop last Thursday, we found out that we weren't delving deep enough with the rubrics we had been creating. Willow had already gone back and started modifying the rubrics they had created.

I know that Glenholme Staff will need to ensure that the language of SOLO is used through the entire rubric. We will also need to use the visual maps to delve deeper and give our students a better understanding of what they are learning. The Community Learning Team will meet in the next couple of weeks to plan how we will present Julie's latest workshop to the school.

The rubrics need to be set out with pre-structural at the bottom and work upwards. Staff to be advised.

We also discussed our trials and tribulations working on the wiki, however there was some satisfaction from many about the learning curve.

I was given release today before our meeting at 1:30PM. I really appreciated this time where I reinforced my wiki skills and uploaded files, edited movies for the wiki.