My Teaching Vision

Classroom Teaching 

What do I want to achieve through my teaching in the Classroom?

In order of importance to my Vision

The Atmosphere - Orangatanga

1. Develop strong relationships/Kotahitanga- Peer to peer and between students and teacher
2. High engagement and motivation through choice of activities.

Planning

1. Skills based approach - You can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, or you can teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
2. Interactive approach - Students engage with meaningful decision making that influences their learning
3. Assessment primarily focused on understanding application of skill...

What pedagogies am I using that support this Vision?

Orangatanga Vision	Current Pedagogies I Use	Opportunities For Further Action
Develop strong relationships - Peer to Peer	Mixed groups on group work not only with friends. Sitting in different seats Peer assessment	Sitting in different seats with different people every class Use circle time to share how their week has been
Develop strong relationships - Student/Teacher	Be nice Door open approach Fair and controlled interaction always so they know what to expect Humour	Working with students learning together on projects, e.g. Sam and I working out how to put photos onto Kidblog and move them around Develop co-construction projects between students and teachers
High engagement and motivation through choice of activities.	Quandary App, United Nations Debate, Class Dojo Level up system	Parents involved with their blogs. Could do this through mid year reports.

Planning Vision	Current Pedgogies I Use	Opportunities for Further Action
Skills based approach	Developed 7 Key Skills needed to be a good citizen Each unit is underpinned by an aspect of these skills	Review the 7 key skills and their sub skills.   Focus on what skills we are learning before, during and after units.
Interactive approach	Provide enough instructions for students to continue at their own pace and progress individually where possible Class dojo random feature to select students to share ideas and opinions Personal Reflection that encourages thinking about how to apply their learning	Give students opportunities for decision making that impacts their learning e.g., topic choice, task choice Explore effective methods for students to record evidence while doing an activity, e.g., forms, photos, short vids - 20sec,
Assessment primarily focused on understanding application of skill	Assessment based on the 7 Key Skills	Develop literacy aspect of social studies teaching and assessment Use literacy resources from others e.g., for Paragraph writing, spelling and punctuation, document layout,  Develop engaging assessments

E Learning Vision

What do I want to achieve through the use of the E-Learning environment?

Learning (Equal importance)

• Develop effective collaboration within the classroom and around the world
• Connect with the wider community - Parents, Dilworth School, The world
• Prepare students for workplace increasingly focused on the digital world

Hardware Logistics (In order of importance)

1. Use multiple formats to evidence learning
2. Have single place for all significant learning to be displayed in multiple formats
3. Easy access to work any time for teacher and students

What pedagogies am I using that support this Vision?

Learning Vision	Current Pedagogies I Use	Opportunities For Further Action
Develop effective collaboration within the classroom and around the world	Small group work in class, Units that include groups work Kotahitanga Model United Nations Quandary	Greater collaboration between classes on projects, simple google doc stuff
Connect with the wider community - Parents, Dilworth School, The world	Include parents with access to student blogs.	Increase wider community involvement in student blogs Find another teacher outside Dilworth keen to do a collaborative project. Make google sites of shared interest with like minded member of other classes extension activity. Start with google doc of all possible subjects then assign the creators and go for it.
Prepare students for workplace increasingly focused on the digital world	Digital citizenship unit Using Blogs as portfolios

Hardware Logistics Vision	Current Pedagogies I use	Opportunities for further action
Use multiple formats to evidence learning	Posters, Blog posts, Reflections, sculptures, short videos	App Smashing eg Skitch to Explain Everything.  Focus on Explain everything as the final app to feed stuff into.
Have single place for all significant learning to be displayed in multiple formats e.g., photos, video, txt.	Using Kid blog	Use Blogger, as it could fit better with other digital infrastructure of the school e.g., hapara, google docs.
Easy access to work any time for teacher and students	Kid Blog, Google Docs with Hapara

Cabin Coach (Pastoral Care) Vision

What do I want to achieve as a Cabin Coach? 

• Strong Relationships - Peer to Peer and Coach to Cabin Members
• Develop Interdependence - Cabin Members can manage the daily running of the cabin with direct supervision in term one and they progress to indirect supervision by term 4
• Develop independence in daily life - cleaning, punctuality, prepared
• Cabin Member do the Right Thing when not being supervised

What are the pedagogies I do to support this?

Vision	Current Pedagogies I Use	Opportunities For Further Action
Strong Relationships	Firm but fair.  Always keep calm adult state when in conversation.  Plan shared fun experiences. Explain group development stages Use Bucket meeting to clear the air when needed	Operate as a part of the team more often, e.g. games, cleaning, evening meals cleaning
Develop Interdependence	Start very directive leadership in term one and move to supportive leadership in term 4 Hand over ownership of cleaning checking Plane Crew Concept Session	Develop a clear step system with performance indicators for when I should be adapting my leadership style, perhaps link it with group challenge and reward of privilege/freedoms
Develop Independence	Ensuring they are accountable when they don’t meet expectations Frame Concept Session	Talk about concept of no bell more regularly.   Develop and use a self assessment tool for how well they are meeting expectations.
Do the Right Thing	Always follow through with future based conversations when not so good decision has been made by them My Word Concept Session Line of Choice Concept Session	Run a Cabin Coach on doing the Right thing not the easy thing - especially when no teachers around.