Reflections+-+Karen

After reading through the scoping and action plan I have merged the school logo with the National Standards, now that all the testing is complete I will conference with each child and help them to set goals towards climbing the tree of educational success, these goals will then become part of their daily reflections. I have also linked our school logo to the current inquiry unit "Why are trees important to our environment". I also have the school values on display with the gold cards they are able to earn. And will be teaching the students more about these values and why they are important.
 * Date:** 23.2.12




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 * 26/01/2012**


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I attended the Learning at Schools conference 2012, Jill Hammond had some wonderful ideas about raising literacy which was really interesting. I can wait for her power point to be accessible so I can reflect on each of the parts and put it into practice in the classroom. Although I feel we are already making their writing meaningful and relevant. I look forward to access of the power points so i can make further notes and process the information further.

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Taking extra time to work with the kids. Some days we only got one sentence each, but they were really good sentences.

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I am really proud of Gibson, this unit has seen him succeed in writing and he is really proud. He cant wait to get up and share his work, which is a complete 180 to previous years.

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Now I need to get the students to use this in all of their writing.We are now typing our stories on goggle docs in order to show them on the data projector and get every to look at editing and reshaping work.

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Date: 15.12.11
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I don't really feel I have achieved a lot of professional development this term, however as acting principal I have learnt a lot about the operations of a school. This has been a huge learning curve, but one I have thoroughly enjoyed.


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Through being acting principal the biggest thing I have had to remain strong with this term was consistency in behavior management. Students know things are going on when the principal is away and they like to test the waters as much as possible.


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I feel this consistency has helped the students remain focused on their work and therefore a lot more has been produced.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Unsure of the schools future let alone my future here. I have had a couple of interviews for other jobs, but have withdrawn my applications in order to keep the consistency here for the students. Therefore I will be returning next year, even if it is for just one term.


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 * Date: 29/9/2011**

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt ** Last week Barbara showed us a few different websites for using with images. These sites have been saved into my bookmarks and I have used them several times to know my way around before using them with the students.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: ** I have used these skills this week, and got the students to make a poster of what they enjoy about the school. They then used anymaking.com to edit the photo then uploaded them into stainedglasscollage.com where we made a stained glass display of the these pictures, saved them and then opened them in MSpaint and put the school logo onto them. These have turned out really well.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: ** Students are more able to use the digital cameras (Including uploading to computers and saving into different drives). the different school network for saving work etc, editing pictures and use various websites to help them. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: ** Upload these into blogspot and explain how we did them and what they are about.

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**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">how to teach perspective etc to students. Sheena Camerons course was really good in working with the reading comprehension book of hers. The focus has paid off as the testing has shown a huge increase in student ability which is great for them. Next term I would like to try her format of shared reading and focus on the different reading areas. Then display these on our walls as our reading tools.=====

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 * Date: 18.08.11**

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt: **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I haven't learned, any new skills but our staff meeting discussions have refreshed my ideas about formative assessment. We are discussing our LI's and SC's with the students more, and the students have learning goals which they reflect on regularly. I feel we need to focus on our feedback to students by means of focused marking and student conferences.

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 * Date: 4/8/11**

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt ** I have learnt how to make a S.A.M animation project with the students. It was very time consuming and I felt it was very teacher directed. However over time with my confidence and student practice I feel it will be more student driven. I have learnt to source new and exciting ways to interest the students in character studies and hope to transfer this knowledge through our literacy areas and curriculum areas.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: ** Students completing learning contracts using ICT in their guided reading activities. More links in the student wikispace for the students to access related sites.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: ** The students have been on task and focused on their learning. They have enjoyed the activities and are starting to develop imagination and creativity <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Next Steps: ** transfer these ideas and interesting activities into other learning areas. Keep on adding more valuable links in the wikispaces for students to use. Still need to develop wi-board for classroom use. The one big problem is the data projector not being permanently set up in the classroom.

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 * Date: 9/6/11**

**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I am learning: I have been appointed Lead ICT teacher which I am really pleased about. I am looking forward to the challenge and the I am learning to use Stop Animation Movies with the students. I have practiced this with my webcam on my laptop but I am not sure how it works with a camera. Because the program used is already in my computer and uses the built in webcam. ** I have used MS paint with the students to publish retells and then inserted these into power point to write whats happening underneath. The older students and I worked together to find out how to get our pages timed so it auto plays. This was a huge learning curve that the students and staff embraced. I struggled to get the students into descriptive writing so one night I went home and made a power point for the students. we worked through it together and discussed what descriptive language is and showed examples then had activities to do. the kids really seemed to enjoy this and I think the next step would be to get the interactive whiteboard system working. To do this I need to sort the sensitivity of the wii remote. Then download a few programs and practice.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice: Using simple programs to replace certain follow up activities in guided reading. **

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The impact of my new learning on student achievement has been: The students have been more engrossed in their learning without realizing it. ** It is making the students enjoy learning because it is new and exciting. There has been a huge sense of achievement and pride when their power point retells have been published, bound and on display in the library.

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**Date: 23rd February 2011** LEARNING @ SCHOOLS CONFERENCE Breakouts: 1. Digital Painting with Photoshop CS5 for creative art projects 2. Unleashing E-learning Capability in your school through teacher Action inquiry Spotlight Melody: The integral Learning Model <span style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">New skills and ideas I have learnt ** 1. I learnt to utilise Photoshop to complete art projects with students. How to use the Mixer and Bristle brush to create art from photo's and how to cut a person out of an image and put something else in the background. 2. I was overwhelmed by this course, however I joined their wikispace so I can look into it further. I did get good ideas from it eg the Pick a Path book. Spotlight: This was an interesting spotlight about how people learn, and process ideas. And how to use this to help students learn. We were told the presentation was avalible on the L@S website however I have just been in and cant find it. I took a leafet about a course she is about to do that I would like to take. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Examples of how this new learning has been embedded in my teaching/leadership practice:

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**Date: 17th February 2011**

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<span style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I have learnt to use goggle docs, wikispaces, and blobspot. This will open a new window of learning options and follow up activities that I can use for the class. Furthermore it will increase the school-community relationship by publishing what we as a school are doing, and what each student is up to. I can use it to complete surveys about the students or get students to complete SWOT charts and make personal goals so their parents can view and possibly remark on these. **

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