Reflect & Comment on Professional Standard 3: Professional Relationships

Reflect & Comment on Professional Standard 3: Professional Relationships/ Ngā hononga ngaio *

I have copied and pasted this from our termly Teacher Self-Check. It's a reflection against one of the professional standards.

How have you engaged in reciprocal, collaborative learning-focused relationships with:- 

learners, I offer students the opportunity to be involved in the process to design their own learning.

I assess them and share their learning data with them. They are able to see what they know and what they need to know. I support them to choose ways to meet those goals in ways that work for them.

family and whānau- I am very open about what my class is doing.

Here is a link to my newsletter that shares my intentions for the term with my whanau. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/my-drive

teaching colleagues, 

In our staff we regularly talk about what we are doing, why and how. I think we are all very close as a staff and we work closely together to support one another.

support staff and other professionals-  

I worked very closely this term with Haley my teacher aid. I trained her how to teach multiplication strategies and set her up with a group, resources etc so that she could be successful. As a result of this, many of my students made accelerated progress in maths last term with their number strategies.

Agencies, groups and individuals in the community.• 

I have worked closely with RTLB Pam on my spelling programme

I have liaised with CORE ed working about my teacher inquiry

I connected with our Enviro leader and the DOC Scientist to support learners in my class.

I also arranged many other members of the community to be interviewed by my students for their documentary project.

This question is also massive.

How do you communicate effectively 

I talk to people. ‘

I email. 

I text.

I listen.

I reflect and think.

Actively contribute, and work collegially, in the pursuit of improving my own and organisational practice, showing leadership, particularly in areas of responsibility.• 

I attend staff meetings

I attend COL meetings

I seek professional development eg anxiety workshop

I read the shared text to discuss at staff meetings

I read numerous other articles about teaching and learning

I organise things eg kapa haka trip, Matariki, kapa haka uniforms, school pantomime

Communicate clear and accurate assessment for learning and achievement information.

I communicate assessment on etap

I have quite a lot of assessment on my computer which is organised in ways that make sense to me. Much of this is not on etap.

I have written progress and achievement reports for my students 

I have had parent teacher interview to communicate achievement

Kahui Ako Term 2

The reason I have shared these pics is  because as I was given the role of WSL for our Kahui Ako and I have begun attending COL meetings in Term 2. I attended 3 meetings. The following documents are focused some of the things we are focusing on as part of our COL. 

There are 4 achievement challenges. There are 2 that our school will be focusing on specifically. 

1) Cultural Capacity linked to our desire to connect with our iwi to create culturally responsive programmes at Mount Biggs and 2) Pedagogy- linked to digital technologies and the work we are doing with Tessa Gray from CORE education.