Reflections+-+Jocelyn


 * E-Learning Professional Learning Reflections - Jocelyn**

//What has changed in your teaching practice as a result of professional development this year, such as, conferences, call back days, workshops, sharing sessions, staff meetings, collegial support, 1-1 facilitator time, professional discussions, own investigations, etc.?// //**Date: 30/08/11**// **New skills and ideas I have learnt: ** I have learnt how to set up ePortfolio access to the students so we can use it to record their goal achievements.  **The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: ** This is still to be determined as it is early days  **Next Steps: ** To regularly heck students goal achievements and discuss with them how best to record this in their eportfolios I was a bit anxious about setting this up and hope I have been successful. Our kids are now really keen to use the computer for their learning and not just for playing games! I think this will give them motivation to start achieving their goals. //**Date: 4/08/11**//
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**New skills and ideas I have learnt: ** I have learnt how to put a link onto the school wiki so the students can have easy access to two maths websites to practice their skills. - collegial support I found an interactive website for numeracy so the students could practice their numeracy knowledge and skills. This was for a month's free trial before we decided to register. How to use paint to draw a garden plan, cut a segment of a plant photo and input into the plan, reproduce the segment to get the number of plants required, save as a jpeg and print.  **The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: ** Children are now used to going on-line to practice these skills. Initially the seniors went for the kindergarten levels but gradually got bored and found challenges at their own level deriving intense satisfaction from their successes. Now new sites are on the wiki they are able to easily access these and are quick to login. By explaining the steps to slower students has reinforced this learning for me. Some students pleased with the outcomes of their plans and will present to the BoT. Others did a rough drawing using paint. This happened because of the time consuming procedure of explaining the steps. Listening skills still hampering progress.  **Next Steps: ** To regularly investigate new maths websites to find appropriate activities for practice. Keep working in paint and saving as a jpeg. Work on listening skills and getting kids to explain the procedure to each other so it is not always teacher driven The pressure of ERO has gone - feel as though I can now concentrate on up-skilling myself in ICTs needed for the classroom.
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//**Date: 9.06.11**//

**New skills and ideas I have learnt: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To use paint/powerpoint with students to present their Maori Legends retells

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Some students initially rebelled against the awkwardness of using the mouse to draw but were happy to achieve stick figures and sketchy backgrounds. Developing sequencing skills in a more logical way.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: ** Get into the Blog!!!!! Bus broke down - monitoring all students, contacting bus company, parents etc.
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//**Date: 17.02.11**//

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have learnt how to use graphic organizers with my class and which ones will be best for what kind of activity. I have also learnt how to use Blooms Taxonomy to develop higher thinking skills in my students and how to include it in my planning.

<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: I am now experimenting with teaching my class how to use different formats. We have used a decision making matrix and an extent barometer to decide how good our holidays really were. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: **

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: ** To get Karen and my planning and evaluations on to googledocs so we can plan collaboratively and evaluate effectively to give continuity to our classroom teaching.


 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Comments: **<span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Planning going on to googledocs. I'm not consistent enough yet so will need to upload as soon as weekly plan completed. Maybe I need to learn how to set a plan up in googledocs itself rather than do it in word and copy and paste. 4.05.11

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Date of Reflection:** 18.11.10 **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Downloading photos from the digital camera so they turn up into the shared space on the server and not stay in 'My Pictures'.

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Will now be able to confidently pass this knowledge onto students so they can download their own photos **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Enabling the students to use these photos in their own photo stories and blogs **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To use these photos to create a photostory, **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Comments: ** <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Can organise my emails more effectively and can find things more quickly; able to complete and return documents to others; had lots of practice doing this and am now confident with this procedure so am now using electronic data storage instead of printing everything off. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sharing, collaborating and reflecting with planning; created targeted, differentiated, depth of learning,; planning no longer disjointed - working together as a team ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Date of Reflection**: 11.11.2010 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**New skills and ideas I have learnt:** Using Gmail - can now search keywords to find the attachments I need to use for management. Using Googledocs for planning and can now create a table in word and import into googledocs; organised school trip to Wellington using email replying to venues, completing booking forms and emailing back ||
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been:** learning programmes are seamless when shifting between staff - no longer disjointed, the planning flows and either teacher can pick up from where the other left off. has worked brilliantly for us sharing a class. The learning is now far more consistent for the students; Able to teach my students about effectively saving work using appropriate file names; ||
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