What are the most significant develops for teachers?

Top 5 most significant digital environment developments

New direction for teacher pedagogies

-Challenging the way we understand learning

-Passive learning vs active engagement

-Knowledge building rather than knowledge gathering

-Redefining what is required learning essential for students to cope in the future both as capable citizens in society and online

-children teaching children

-fostering curiosity and passion for learning

-fluid grouping and transparent planning, goals, and assessment

-team teaching approach that reflects collaboration team work and interacting ideas

-facilitating the exploration of information available

-children understand and own the learning process

Personalising learning

Education is about bringing out the best in people while preparing them for a future that none of us know or can imagine

Our planning, assessment and teaching practises need to reflect this

Teaching will be more about deliberate acts of teaching and quality use of questioning Questions that will

extending ideas

challenging current beliefs

engage a problem solving approach

The school / classroom culture that reflects and values

Every idea is a fractal part of the best idea

Collaboration creates a community of learners

A connected, digital citizen whose attitudes reflect empathy and respect, valuing the need to share and source knowledge from a variety of places globally, nationally and locally.

Knowledge building pedagogy values all ideas

Developing a sense of a reputation that reflects who they are and what is important to them. This is both online and face to face.

Specific teaching reflecting where child is in their learning

Opt in workshops for passion projects and interest learning.

Workshops for specific teaching developing goals and reflecting on prior knowledge

Professional learning communities

An attitude of innovation in the work place to meet our diverse needs and unique potential in our classrooms is almost essential now

Improve effectiveness of pd

Cycle of continuous learning appropriate and relevant to you

Potential to clarify thinking, gain support from like-minded people, generate new thinking, Sustain improvement of an idea over time.

Opens doors to network with other like-minded professionals, locally, nationally and globally

Teaching as Inquiry Ariki

Collaborate, share knowledge - blog, tweet Facebook, build knowledge with specialists, leading educators, mentors, other schools that are making a difference. Adapting best practices from around the world and adapting it to suit our needs.

Become a lurker – core ed, simon breakspear, jaqui sharp, hey millie, allanah king, Edtalks, Tedtalks, You tube.

Online professional development – vln, Facebook (emerging leaders, e central leaders)

Don’t be afraid to ask questions!

Flexible learning environments

Recognising students learn in different ways at different times.

Digital technologies provide anytime anywhere learning not just the classroom

Invite opportunities for children to share, engage and inspire each other

Range of devices that allow learning to become mobile, integrated and collaborative

We have access to global knowledge and collaboration let’s use it

Variety of seating options

No teacher desk – teachers are modelling the engagement of learning interacting and questioning rather than providing the knowledge at the front of the room. Increases collaboration between teachers

Goes hand in hand with 21^st century pedagogy

Cloud technology - Online data management

A structure like this you get to know your students well.

Provides instant access - not a minute wasted waiting for access to a resource, teacher time, lack of direction and ownership of learning

Impacts students getting access to resources and expertise

Access to learning 24 / 7

To cater for just in time learning and creating a team of learners you need to communicate between students, teachers and parents

Student achievement data

Students provide evidence of their understanding of their goals then set new ones

Provide 24 7 access to their learning, resources to consolidate new learning, a portal for sharing learning, inviting feedback and feedforward, invite collaboration between children globally,

Redefining what is important valid and informative data

Structuring this online for access by any teacher, student, parent

Transparency

Keep up with changes, monitor progress and learning overtime, enabling 1-1 computing, reduce waste and photocopying and expensive stationery.

Collaborative planning online

Meetings from all parts of the country

Work is seen and supported by colleagues

Everyone’s responsibility for that child’s achievement and success not just one teacher.

Top 5 key words

Collaborate

Flexible

Innovative

Connected

Responsible

Watch out for

Social media

Games based learning

Virtual classrooms