Lead+Teachers+Practicum+October

Welcome to our Lead Teachers Practicum Information page. This page provides information and links for several of the professional learning activities for this Lead Teachers Practicum
 * [[image:LeadTeachersPractImage.png align="left"]]Lead Teachers Practicum Information **

Wednesday 13th October @ Timaru South School
 * Agenda: **

· School leadership workshop on providing ongoing in-school support · Exploring ways in which school leaders are, or can, providing ongoing support for their teachers ICT development and integration · Sharing how ICT leaders have, or plan to, follow up the teachers identified next step from the in-school support visits · Building leadership into the in-school support provided by eTime
 * [[image:InSchoolSupport.png width="166" height="165" align="left"]] In-school Support – Leadership PD on providing on going support **

|| media type="custom" key="7121351" || Confirm Term 4 in-school support dates and key focus - Lead Teacher support with ICT leadership - Action Research/Teaching As Inquiry - Teacher support with practicum follow up (PowerPoint/Keynote, Wiki) ||
 * [[image:Term3Dates.png width="563" height="443"]] || ** Term 3 In-school Support Overviews and Next Steps **
 * ** School leadership workshop on providing ongoing in-school support **
 * [[image:ISSTerm4Dates.png width="580" height="388"]] || ** Term 4 In-school Support **

**Term 4 Practicum - Digital Literacy Using Multimedia** - Friday 22nd October (Week 2/Term 4) & Highfield School - Teacher ICT requirements (laptop, cord, no internet access) - Image resources around Term 4 planning if required (fiction/non-fiction contexts) - i-works 09 – Keynote - Microsoft Office 07 – PowerPoint - Please ensure all teachers are booked into the appropriate workshop and know their group number and the location of the room.

**Cluster Sharing** - Wednesday 1st December - Geraldine Primary School & St Josephs Timaru - 4:15pm – 5:30pm - Sharing Action Research/Teaching Inquiry - Booking tables, session outline & organisation information will be added to the Cluster wiki by host Schools.

**Milestone 2 Report** – Collaboration & organisation for completion - Working collaboratively to address key goals of the Milestone "What progress has been made towards achieving these goals and how is this evidenced" Glyris Sullivan Megan Cahill Mandy Gregan
 * [[image:Goal_1.png width="147" height="147"]] || [[image:Goal_2.png width="143" height="147"]] || [[image:Goal_3.png width="145" height="145"]] || [[image:Goal_4.png width="144" height="151"]] || [[image:Goal_5.png width="141" height="147"]] ||
 * Lamea Brittenden

|| Lindsay Robertson Anna Miller Louise Reeves David Pirie John Palmer || Tony Climo Robyn Cooper Ali Talbot Murry Davidson

|| Siobhan Hayward Lorraine Frances-Rees Mike Hogan Charlotte Messervy

|| Chelley Leov Brandon Payne Jonathan Young Leonie Chapman

|| Explored the Success Indicators aligned to the National ICT Goal that your group is focusing on. Discuss the goal and identify how they have being addressed so far, identifying areas of success and evidence to support this.
 * Explore success indicators in our ICT PD Contract and providing evidence of progress made **

**Milestone Report - Google Docs** Briefly review milestone requirements for schools to follow up on.

**Increasing Community Understanding** Collaboratively work through the ‘Increasing the school community’s understanding of the educational contribution of e-learning’ workshop
 * Building leadership towards achieving Goal 5 **

Leading your community – Each school identifying their future strategies for achieving this goal

Click on the image link below to access this section...

**Cross Clusters Movie Competition** North/Mid/ South Canterbury cluster competition to foster links between the three clusters. Advertises and celebrates your school to the wider Canterbury community. Building on skills from practicums (Digital Literacy Using Still Images). Encourages community involvement through online feedback. Monday Week 5 Term 4 is the new closing date for getting movies uploaded and we will judge in Week 6.

Please access all details and information through the competition wiki using the image link to the left.

**Guskey's Five Levels of Evaluation** Thomas R. Guskey, Ph.D., is a professor in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky and an expert in research and evaluation who has authored or edited 12 books, including Evaluating Professional Development (Corwin, 2000). In the link he discusses his five-step process for evaluating professional development in education and its connection to professional development planning. Below is Gusky's 5 Levels of Eveluation Table. Go to our 'Professional Readings' section to access further information.

**Increasing Collaboration on our Greater South Canterbury ICT Wiki** We started to identify ways in which we can build collaboration on our cluster wiki the lead teachers some responses below: PLEASE add any other suggestions!
 * Lead teachers and teachers from throughout the cluster can add to the library of resources in our "Professional Resources" section in our cluster wiki. (share these with staff, in syndicates)
 * Specifically focus on getting teachers to add to the "Web2 Links" section in the 'Professional Resources" section in our cluster wiki - great widgets and web2 tools & resources.
 * Exploring "Increasing our communities understanding of e-learning" section
 * Invite other schools into our wikis
 * Celebrating success by teachers and students by having a "Showcasing Success" section
 * Develop a - How do you? (tech support section for teachers to post questions or problems, and other teachers to post possible solutions)