PrincipalsandICTLeadTeachersMeeting14July2010

14 July 2010

Principals and ICT Lead Teachers Meeting

Re: Highlight our future direction

Nancy shared the 2010 Implementation of the RCICT Programme.

Discussed the sustainability of the programme in the future, continuing with SOLO

Looking at using SOLO as our main focus of inquiry learning

Looking at a PD Day with Julie and Pam for all teachers within the clusters

Choosing a sprinkling of year 4 Maori students from all clusters and have them work with ICT Lead Teachers to give them the ICT skills and opportunities available. E.g. attending ICT sessions up at the Education Centre honing their skills, the children sharing their ICT skills with other children in the cluster.

10th of August PD with Julie and Pam for same cluster staff who went to the previous course with Julie.

Maori potential approach – Lead Teachers to work with Nicky on the Ka Hikatia programme. Te Marautanga is another document which would support Maori Achievement 1st of September

Each school should have a policy on community partnership and Maori achievement policy.

We need to collect baseline data within the cluster so we have pre and post assessments/surveys that will show what shifts have been made academically and with attitudes.

We need to look at our teaching staff and their levels of empathy toward Maori students and relationships developed between teachers and students – Angus Macfarlane’s teachings.

Policies, procedures, data and action plan to develop to address Maori achievement in ICT.

Web 2.0 Tools – blogs, google.docs and wiki

Lead teachers will focus on wikis, making e-books, digital storytelling, google docs, uploading videos to youtube, uploading pictures and hyperlinks

iTALC is free application which can give you a snapshot of what children in a suite are looking at on their computers. It also gives you the ability to lock out all the computers so you can gain the attention from all the children.

Target Maori students who have leadership potential and some ICT skills. Teachers would have to take some responsibility that the child would be given opportunities.

4th of August first meeting at Westbrook with ICT cluster and have the four children and sizes for their tshirts.