Lead+Teacher+Practicums

** Lead Teachers Practicum Information ** Welcome to our Lead Teachers Practicum Information page. This page provides information and links for several of the professional learning activities that we will be doing during todays session.
 * Thursday 23 July @ Timaru South School**

Definition of an expert... “Is a person who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything there is to know about nothing.” Quote from TONY -Nice!!
 * Minutes:[[file:GSC Leaders Practicum July 2010.doc]]**

**Term 2 in-school support reflections**

In cross cluster groups the lead teachers completed a P.M.I reflecting on the last round of in-school support. Click on the image to the left to access these.



**Activities and Reflections Section** We have a section in our cluster wiki for Sharing Professional Development Experiences & Personal Reflections relating to these. This page is for members of our cluster to share the professional development and learning activities they have been involved in and their corresponding reflections.

Access these through the "Activities & Reflections" button on the navigation menu, or click on the image link to the left.

**Activities and Reflections Section** Leaders reflected on the Action Research or Teaching as Inquiry cycles. Using the prompt questions to the left, they recorded their reflections using the 'Discussion' tab in the action research section of this wiki. Please feel free to add more reflections to this sections.

This would be a great process to work through with all staff as you move towards your next cycle.

Access these by going to the 'Action Research" Section or by clicking on the image link to the left.

**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.

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

**ICT Leadership Workshop** As a key focus for this Lead Teachers Practicum we collaboratively worked through an ICT Leadership Workshop




 * Each group needs to start on a different section of the workshop


 * Two computers were used in each group, one computer to view the slideshare and the second to be in edit mode to add to the discussions


 * Click on this image to access the ICT Leadership Workshop

**Practicum 3 - Digital Literacy Using Muti-media Resources** Using: Keynote 09 or PowerPoint 2007 to complete to create a digital presentation. 5 exemplars to explore including: Step by Step (instructional text), Pick a Path(narrative), Pieces of… (descriptive tex), One Slide Wonder (factual information & problem solving), Music Mania (poetry & music) Skills covered in these are broad and can translate across all curriculum areas & different text types

Facilitators will have exemplars of ALL the workshops and teachers will be able view all and then work on one particular activity using supporting documents or work through a couple of workshops with step by step guidance. All information is avaliable in our "Practicum Information" section on this wiki, or click on the image link to the left.

**Gathering Evidence** Exploring evidence required and possible tools for acquiring it...
 * Levels of evaluation
 * Explore success indicators in our ICT PD Contract
 * Explore and use some tools for gathering evidence (teacher and student voice)
 * Use Voicethread to evaluate our Leadership

**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.

**Explore success indicators in our ICT PD Contract** We explored the Success Indicators aligned to each of the the National ICT Goals. As a group we discussed these goal by goal and decided they were addressed, identifying areas of success so far and areas for future focus.

**ICT Reflective Tools** **Gath** ** ering evidence of student, teacher and community voice... **
 * Discussion tabs on a school or class wiki
 * Comments and reflections against criteria with work sample. E.g.
 * Movie, criteria & student comments/eveluation on wiki
 * YouTube ratings & comments

**Some great Web2 collaboration and reflection tools**
 * Webspiration, mindmapping - []
 * Wall Wisher reflections - []
 * Voicethread reflections - []

**Leadership Reflection** media type="custom" key="6573723" align="center"

Add a text, voice or webcam reflection onto this Voicethread by commenting on:

//How have you increased your ICT leadership capabilities this year?//

//What area of leadership do you feel you need to further develop?//

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**Teachers Evaluations on Leadership**

**We created a Voicethread for each schools staff to evaluate the leadership and support their schools ICT Leaders have being providing through the ICT contract so far.**

Feel free to use this image for your school Voicethread reflection (Copy it onto your desktop and then upload into your Voicethread). Embed the Voicethread evaluation into your school's ICT wiki.

Voicethread note are available below:

**Increasing Community Understanding** Add lead teachers responses below: //Sue will develop a section on this for schools to use to help develop ideas and strategies for helping to achieve this goal and the identified success indicators.//

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

**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)

Sue will make a start of getting the suggested sections etc added to the wiki etc for cluster to collaborate on… watch this space

**Developing Your School's ICT Wiki** Toni Climo Share the Geraldine ICT Wiki to help the other schools develop possible ways to further develop their School Wiki **Ideas developed on the school wiki during our ICT Lead Teacher Practicum included:** Linked to each class Action research section with examples, PD readings and documentation Voice thread for Leadership reflections

**Other ideas for future development**
 * Use of discussion tabs - staff, student, community discussions
 * Staff discussion forums following up PD, readings...
 * Celebrating and sharing Staff ICT successes
 * School calender (google)
 * Professional Readings, resources, tools….etc.
 * Community information page
 * Links to web2 tools and resources
 * Celebrating teacher success, exemplars
 * Post practicum showcasing
 * Celebrating student success
 * Documentation (strategic plan,minutes, agendas, cyber safety)
 * Student Voice, News centre (by students for students)
 * Parent zone - links, discussions