key principles for growing e-learning teacher capability in nz schools a pilot project with a focus...
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Key Principles for Growing e-Learning Teacher Capability in NZ schools
A Pilot Project
With a focus on meeting the needs of Māori students
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Kathe TawhiwhirangiWarren HallAnne Sturgess
Ehara i te toa takitahi engari i te toa takitini
My strength is not mine alone but that of the multitudes
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Whakatauki
Ki mai ki ahau he aha te mea nui i tenei aoTe tangata! Te tangata! Te tangata! Ask me what is important in this world –It is people! It is people! It is people!
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ICT PD BeL PLD➞
• Began in 1999 - 23 Schools finishes 2012 (3yr contracts)
• PLD reviews from 2007
o BES, Helen Timperley et al
o ERO Managing PLD reports
Evidence based PLD (student outcome focus)
Regionally delivered and co-ordinated
Reduction of centrally funded PLD
Increase in differentiated PLD
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1. Accelerates student achievement with an urgent focus on Māori, Pasifika and students with special education needs
2. Is flexible and responsive to the diverse identity, language and culture needs of students
3. Is based on evidence of student needs within a school or kura 4. Has clear and measurable outcomes for students5. Is based on The New Zealand Curriculum6. Builds sustainable school-wide inquiry and practice within
schools in collaboration with school leadership, parents, whānau, iwi and communities
7. Increasingly considers the role of ICT in PLD delivery and student outcomes
MoE’s 7 Core Principles for PLD
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Vision
Capabilities for living and lifelong learningThe New Zealand Curriculum identifies five key competencies:thinkingusing language, symbols, and textsmanaging selfrelating to othersparticipating and contributing
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Using language, symbols, and texts…
The aim is that NZ students will confidently use ICT (including, where appropriate, assistive technologies) to access and provide information and to communicate with others.
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Why?• MOE decision to move to a regional model of PLD
provision. • Feedback and data from this trial will allow the BeL
team to make informed decisions regarding the structure, documentation and processes for the new way of working.
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To achieve this we needed to…
• Develop an operational PLD model,• Provide feedback about the e-LPF,• Trial the Facilitator Tool, and• Operate in a blended manner.
We also needed to listen to and learn from schools and communities involved in the Pilot Project
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Selection criteria…
Looked for 15 schools who were:• Not Current ICT PD clusters• working within another PLD contract such as
literacy or leadership and assessment • High percentage of Māori students (Koha Team)
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Our 5-step plan was to…
1. Determine the nature and extent of their needs (gathering data) (Teacher Beliefs, eLPF).
2. Discuss causes where appropriate.3. Start with the primary unmet need (Analysis).4. Apply the right intervention to address the need
(Guide & Grow)
5. Evaluate current levels of functioning on each need/outcome (Review).
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What we actually did…
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What does this mean in practice?
• Manaakitanga
• Kotahitanga
• Rangatiratanga
• Manaaki tētahi i tētahi• KNOW the community of the school• Identity, Language & Culture
• Moving forward together• Collaboration (various forms/people/groups)• Interdependence
• Whanau/school partnership• Sustainability and growing capabilities• Utilising the ‘knowledge’ of the
whānau/wider community
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There’s a lot going on in schoolsSo…offer something that will make a difference
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A balancing act
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Schools found it helpfulWhen the facilitator:• Built relationships with a wide range of people.• Timetabled.• Left set tasks & trusted teachers to take
responsibility for their own learning.• Kept notes during other PLD sessions.• Brought expertise into the school.• Guided rather than told.
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Recommendations from Pilot Schools
• Face-to-face engagement • Acknowledge that teachers are busy• Include the wider community• Allow time – be organised• Build capacity by bringing in expertise• Use both personal and online involvement• Make time for principal to debrief with facilitator
regularly
Manaaki Whenua, Manaaki Tangata, Haere whakamua
Care for the land, Care for the people, Go forward.
Haere ra: Kathe Tawhiwhirangi, Anne Sturgess & Warren Hall