Charlotte Verity Professional Learning (School Based)

The Collaborative Journey Term 1, Week 4 2020 Team collaboration As a team, we meet every morning and most afternoons. The morning conversations allow us to assign roles during our Discovery time, allocate speakers for our daily korero, and also share current pastoral care or other student needs. We continue to plan weekly as a team also. Partner collaboration As well as this, my wonderful colleague Katie and I have been experimenting with different forms of collaboration throughout the learning programme. Our long term goals for collaborating are: To provide a varied and needs-focused learning for our students. To experiment using different roles, and the impact of these on student engagement, happiness and learning. To model & share different practises &  styles of explaining and teaching. To reflect, discuss and develop deeper insights around each of our students, and use this to inform our planning. Some of our collaborative moments so far:...

This will be my first full year teaching in a collaborative, modern learning setting.  The Children: What is working well?  * Spending time getting to know the children through their interests. We have spent lots of time outside, playing games and also doing science. * Connecting with parents/whanau: to share good news, photos, tips for home and to seek their input and ides. I am keeping a log of parental contact so I ensure I touch base with all parents regularly. * Lots of movement & song: song and gonoodle are particularly effective for re-engaging E and L (two children who can become easily disregulated or disengaged). * Partner games: with a focus on active listening & getting to know each other, and observing/changing partnerships that aren't as effective as they could be. These partnerships will form the basis of our maths problem groups. * Social emotional teaching: sessions on friendship, being special (we've taken this into our writing using this clip ...

We began by discussing and deciding definitions for key terms, including: Dialogue: share ideas Discuss: debate ideas Pause: wait, without talking Inquirer: questioner, explorer Advocacy: support or represent ideas (persuasive) Paraphrase: briefly recap and most important for me, listening set aside s: the things to stop doing when listening/talking! * Judgement * To do lists * Autobiographical stories * Solution finding * Unrelated information We practised having 'challenging conversations' with colleagues, using the process below (e.g. challenging conversations may be sharing an issue with a parent; discussing differences with a colleague): 1. Prepare and plan  your words 2. Converse Name the issues  Focus on evidence Clarify importance: impact and consequence Identify your contribution 3. Invite and listen to others' response and perspective 4. Open the conversation for mutual negotiation and resolution: decide action 5. Follow ...