Top tips for IWB use

D9 Teacher presents...

Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: St Matthew’s School, Hasting, NZ                                    
Using  IWB  software tools  to  empower  students  and   maximize  teaching  and  learning.'

… IWB + Literacy                20th March

We  explore  hardware,  software  and   freeware  options  to get the most from your interactive whiteboard to support  your literacy   teaching  and  learning.    

… interactive whiteboard for beginners    3rd April

Considering activities and strategies to maximize your students effective use of the IWB in the classroom.

… Inquiry and ICT               15th May

We explore ways  ICT tools can broaden, deepen and enrich the inquiry process. 

Email direct to book your place.  

Bio

Simon has spent time delivering ICT professional development to teachers around the North Island. Before that he was a primary classroom teacher for 11 years both in NZ and the UK.

Simon is particularly interested in the impact of Web 2.0 and other digital literacy tools on teaching and learning.

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Developing Independent, Self Directed Thinkers...

Auckland: 6th March

Hamilton: 7th March

Time: 4.00pm - 7.00pm

INVESTMENT:

$125 per person

$110 pp for groups of 3-9

$100 pp for 10+

We are living in challenging times... and also times of great opportunity. The very best gift we can give to our students is to prepare them to adapt and to develop their full potential in this fast-changing world.

Teachers make every other profession possible and, in a dynamic teaching environment, deciding what to include and leave out of the curriculum is important. This workshop will explore 7 key ideas as well as the importance of authentic learning and developing the dispositions of the Habits of Mind.



In this fast-paced 3 hour workshop, you will explore 7 important keys for teaching ...

• Understanding how the brain learns
• Minimising the Fear Factor
• Teaching contextualised content
• Empowering students to think
• Hook learners with authentic learning
• Never work harder than your students
• Assessing for Learning

Plus... you will explore how to teach within an authentic context and integrate the Habits of Mind seamlessly into your classroom.
You’ll also learn...

• What the 16 Habits of Mind are
• Practical ways to use and implement and develop the Habits of Mind
• How to foster the use of the Habits of Mind in school and at home
• How teacher language affects the thinking and learning process
• How a shared vision for teachers can make a significant difference to children’s lives.

Karen Boyes is described as Australasia's "Mrs Education." An expert in effective teaching, learning and living, Karen turns research into practical and simple to use techniques that create success. As the Founder of Spectrum Education, an author, publisher of the Teachers Matter Magazine and an Associate Director of the Institute for the Habits of Mind, Karen is an expert of teaching and learning throughout the world.  A dynamic presenter, she inspires teachers and students globally.

For further information and to place a booking.
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Do you know your next steps?

Presenter: Pam Hook

Hamilton • 15 March

About this seminar

During this presentation Pam will outline how teachers can build primary and secondary students assessment capability using a modification of SOLO Taxonomy (Biggs and Collis 1982). This approach will support teachers to monitor and give effective feedback and feed forward on how students are going and where to next with their learning.
Who will benefit from attending this seminar?

This seminar will be particularly useful for educators who are interested in practical approaches to:

• Improving student learning outcomes
• Raising student confidence
• Increasing student engagement

Further information

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CORE Breakfast: Leadership post the quakes

Presenter: Chris Jansen

Christchurch • 28 February

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About this seminar

Since the quakes, many organisations around Christchurch have lost staff and students, lost buildings, lost files and systems, and yet have re-emerged on shared sites, often operating in innovative and inspiring new ways. The quakes have not only triggered the temporary breakdown of conventional organisational structures, but also led to the spontaneous emergence of self-organisation, individuals and groups responding to the threat and the opportunities to support each other and create innovative solutions to the challenging situation.

This presentation will explore these phenomena. In particular, it will consider whether such self organisation can only occur post a traumatic event, or whether it is it possible for organisations to foster this level of self motivation, creativity, and generosity in its members (staff, students, communities) throughout its 'normal' operations?

Further information...

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CORE Breakfast: Sustaining curriculum conversations

Presenters: Christina Ward and Jane Nicholls

Dunedin • 7 March

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About this seminar

It is four years since the launch of The New Zealand Curriculum Online web site. 35,000 teachers a month now visit this site. How are schools sustaining the momentum of curriculum review and development?

At this breakfast, we aim to introduce a feast of curriculum resources available online to support these conversations and decisions. We will guide you to a number of important curriculum research, learning resources, and tools. We will talk about ways schools take these online resources and use them effectively to guide curriculum conversations and thinking.

• What recent research is available to inform school curriculum development?
• How might schools use curriculum stories to challenge, inform and inspire conversations and decisions?
• How does NZC Online support learning about the NZC principles?

This seminar will be particularly useful for:

• School leaders, middle leaders and classroom practitioners
• Those with responsibility for developing and supporting The New Zealand Curriculum within schools
• Professional learning facilitators working with schools on curriculum review and development.

Further information...

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22nd Feb - Flowers and Roadcones

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Sitech Roadshow

Venue: Taradale Intermediate, 6 Murphy Road, Taradale, Napier 4112

Date:  30th November 2011 & 01st December 2011 

Time:3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

You are invited to see a display of our latest equipment
See our new “Collaborative Learning Centre” complete with touch screen See our large 55” mobile monitor See our very popular teaching stations

We will also have on display:

• The new multiple touch, dual response Panaboard interactive board 
• A variety of classroom recording equipment 
• The sophisticated Moway robots 
• The very popular Aver Visualisers
• Acer Iconia touch tablets

Nibbles & Refreshments Available

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Final VPLD Hot Seat for the year

Christina Ward: Teaching as Inquiry

Session Overview

“Teachers are at the heart of school improvement, and with all the change in the
world and new understandings about learning it is essential that they too keep
learning. “
(Stoll, Fink & Earl, 2003)

In this session we will explore teaching as inquiry by:

• discussing the process and its place in The New Zealand Curriculum,
• taking a look at the characteristics of schools and classrooms where high
• levels of teaching as inquiry are evident
• sharing examples from New Zealand schools, and other useful resources.

Bio:

Christina Ward manages New Zealand Curriculum Online. Since 2004, she has worked with the education sector to ensure schools have access to quality information to support curriculum development and implementation. She also encourages them to contribute to the online environment, share their stories and make connections with each other.

Christina is also closely involved in a number of online environments, including Key Competencies Online, Middle Schooling, Secondary Middle Leaders, Community Engagement, Software For Learning, and Te Manawa Pou.

Christina was a classroom teacher before launching into curriculum resource development and publishing, then Social Studies Online and the exemplar project.

Follow up notes, summary and material available. 


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Nominate a New Zealander for TED

New Zealand Education leads the way globally. I am sure that there are innovative and engaging teachers across New Zealand who have a story to share.

TED 2012 are launching TED ED next year and they are wanting you to nominate educators that would be willing to share with the world. In their blog post they write:

For the upcoming TED conference TED2012: Full Spectrum we’re looking for 10 of the world’s best teachers to take the TED stage during a special session we’re calling The Classroom. We’re accepting nominations to help track these people down. You can nominate yourself or a remarkable educator we should know about — who doesn’t have to be a teacher in the traditional sense.” 

For full details follow the link to the TED Blog. Tweet

An Evening with Dame Alison Holst

CANCELLED

Join the Napier Central School PTA for a fabulous night with Dame
Alison - she will be talking about her memoir, A Home Grown Cook. Bring your Friends, Neighbours, Aunties, Mothers, Grandmothers and make an evening of it. Tickets are only $20 and include home-baking and $10 off her book. There will also be raffles and the chance to win a bakers dozen of Dame Alison's Cookbooks. So come and support Napier Central School and meet the Queen of the New Zealand Kitchen

We are excited to be able to support this event and Beattie&Forbes have plenty of her books for you to buy - a great Christmas present for only $30.

Tickets from Ticketek - Please Tweet or like and get the word out as this all goes to support the school. Tweet

CORE Education Breakfast: "Social Media for educators"

CORE Education invites you to breakfast

Come and hear

DK

Social Media Manager - CORE Education

Breakfast Seminar

Christchurch, Tuesday, 8 November at 7.30am

DK joined CORE Education in July as the company's first Social Media Manager after recently emigrating from the UK where he was the Founding Director of the highly successful MediaSnackers.

MediaSnackers inspires people to learn, work and live differently with social media. This work has included developing and delivering social media training for teachers and youth services, devising brand-raising strategies for national government departments and social media marketing strategies for games manufacturers. Recent clients have included the Welsh Assembly, UNICEF and The Gates Foundation. For more details of clients go to http://mediasnackers.com/clients

DK has also created Social Media For Suits, personalised mentoring for CEOs and executives who want to understand and effectively use social media.

More information about DK

COST

$30 including GST

REGISTRATION DUE

By Friday, 4 November

TO REGISTER

Register online for Christchurch

What's all this social media nonsense?

Using cross-sector examples of social media in action, DK will illustrate how organisations are utilising social media to humanise their brand. He will also explore how others are leveraging the power of social principles to achieve wider learning opportunities including the ability to connect with experts across the world.

What is the value of this to educators?

DK will demonstrate that, while Twitter and Facebook are two examples of social media, there are many more platforms to utilise, to adapt and adopt. He will also show what's really changed for young people, outline the opportunities for educators and clarify how this challenges the traditional model of education.

This CORE breakfast session will:

- give an overview of the shifting media landscape

- enlighten you as to what social media is

- explore the use of social media through a range of cross-sector examples

- give guidance about how NOT to use social media

- share why "playing is learning by stealth"

- make you smile/think.

This session is for educators who want to understand social media and its uses in the context of their work. It is not a session about the 'how to use' aspects of these applications, but rather for those who want a brain melting overview of how these social media platforms can be used to extend learning.

Breakfast will be served at 7.30am, with DK beginning the discussion at 7.45am (please note the earlier start time). He will wrap things up around 9am but you are invited to stay and chat with DK, other CORE staff and one another after the seminar.

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Fiona White - Open talking: Open communication

Wednesday 26th October 3.30 pm

Session Overview

“What we have to face is that the more we ‘manage’ students’ behaviour and try to make them do what we say, the more difficult it is for them to become morally sophisticated people who think for themselves and care about others […].  In saying that a classroom or school is a ‘community’, I mean that it is a place in which students feel cared about and are encouraged to care about each other”

(Alfie Kohn from Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community (1996).

How do we do this?  A fundamental factor is our communication with ourselves and with others.  Fiona will be taking you through the 4-step process of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and touching on other aspects of the NVC philosophy such as ‘Reward & Punishment’ and ‘Rules & Values’, with a view to creating a holistic, respectful classroom community.

This session will provide you with:

• Strategies for developing classroom communities
• Some culturally responsive approaches to communicating with students
• Ideas for engaging students who are not engaged
• A range of ways of thinking about how dialogue can influence the 'social' side of learning

In preparation, Fiona requests that you watch a Video on TeacherTube and consider what might be the effects of such a demonstration.

 The session will be facilitated in Adobe Connect.

Fiona White With over 20 years professional experience in education, management, commerce, industry, recruitment and customer care in the UK, France and New Zealand, Fiona has a great understanding of the costs of conflict in the classroom. Fiona uses approaches to develop thriving, culturally responsive classroom communities, using strategies such as listening actively and respectfully, ensuring the student feels 'heard', and then asking the right questions to empower her students to find their own solutions. Fiona is based in East Auckland, where she has her own Mediation and Conflict Coaching practice - Mediation Matters - and holds a clinic one day a week at the local Citizens Advice Bureau.

Please register your attendance here.

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Readit1st

I'm not saying I'm a 'see it before you read it' kinda guy, I'll let you be the judge. But I have yet to watch any of the Harry Potter movies because I was waiting to have read them all before I see any of the movies.  Also I've finished 'The Lincoln Lawyer' as you may know already if you follow my vlog and am currently hanging out for a couple of friends to finish reading before we buy the movie and find the biggest, HDTV we can and watch it. As I said; I'll let you judge.

Hank Green is one half of the Vlogbrothers, a hugely popular youtube community commonly referred to as Nerdfighters.

Just recently Hank shared in his vlog the ‘Readit1st’ pledge.

As he mentions many successful movies are adaptations of novels. With millions more viewing compared to those reading something needs to happen.

With ‘reading for pleasure’ in the US, and I would argue here in New Zealand too, is being limited to one or two novels a year some would argue that ‘the joy of reading’ is dying out.

The ‘Readit1st’ is a simple sign up to a newsletter and the opportunity share your commitment my sharing a badge, as in figure 1, on your blog or website.
The newsletter available to pledgers is written by John Green and feature the upcoming movies that are based on novels with the urge to ‘Readit1st’.

One of the featured articles reads:

The Help

In theaters now you’ll find The Help,  an adaptation of Katherine Stockett’s first novel, which has now sold more than five million copies in the U.S. (…he wrote, betraying no trace of jealousy). Even so, the movie has been seen by more than twice that many people in just a few weeks.

Set in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, Stockett’s novel has three different narrators—two African American maids and one white woman. If you’re one of the 6.91 billion people who haven’t read it, readit1st!

Useful links:

• Book Corner playlist
• Book Discussions playlist

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Top tips for Literacy and ICT

D9 Teacher presents...

We explore hardware, software and freeware options to support literacy teaching and learning.


When: 20th September 2011
Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Venue: St Matthew’s School, Hasting, NZ
Cost: $35
Book now: office.dragon09@gmail.com

Bio

Simon has spent time delivering ICT professional development to teachers around the North Island. Before that he was a primary classroom teacher for 11 years both in NZ and the UK. Simon is particularly interested in the impact of Web 2.0 and other digital literacy tools on teaching and learning.

Award-winning afternoon tea provided by Bay Espresso - Cafe 

Useful resource:

What does an effective teacher of literacy need to know, understand and do in order to deliver the NZ curriculum?  (pdf)
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New Zealand Needs Green Growth

Have you realised the incredible potential New Zealand has in playing a role for Green Growth? In many ways we are sitting on our hands, not engaging in the explosive potential for economic growth, and environmental modelling in our country to the rest of the world.
I share with you my thoughts on how Green Growth can be instilled as a core appreciation among young people, who are the leaders of the future for enacting change. I believe change will take place out of a natural response to an appreciation of our great country, and the opportunities it provides.

Feel free to learn more about the future of Green Growth on Pure Advantage's website.

Thanks Andrew for the info. 

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Learning @ School 2012: Calls for presentations

Closing in 7 days!!!

Call For Presentations

Claudelands Events Centre   -  26-27th January 2012

Website: www.core-ed.org/learningatschool

Whaia e koe ki te iti  kahurangi; ki te tuohu koe, me maunga teitei

Seek the treasure you value most dearly: if you bow your head let it be to a lofty mountain


Stand Up – Be counted.
Share your stories

Submit a presentation for the Learning@School  Conference in January next year.

There are a great many of you who are working untiringly in your own schools for the benefit of the students in your care. The Learning @School conference provides a wonderful opportunity for you to share your successes. The team is looking forward to receiving a selection from across New Zealand covering the aspects of your programme that relate to the four themes, Leading, Creating, Achieving and School Partnerships.

It is up to all of us to share what we have learned, with our colleagues.... from beginners to experienced practitioners. We want to hear what you can offer. Every year we are building upon our collective knowledge.

Enliven this conference with your expertise and experience. Stand up! Be Counted!

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Key Dates
Deadline for Abstracts: 16th September 2011
Feedback range: October 15th-October 30th

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Guidelines http://www.core-ed.org/learningatschool/submission-guidelines

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Sherry Chrisp (Programme Convenor)
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7th Teachers Matter Conference

Educating our Future

Rotorua 26th & 27th January 2012

Keynote speaker: Dr. Bena Kallick

Teachers make every other profession possible - that is why Spectrum hosts this important conference. The role Teachers’ play in our community is vital to developing caring, confident, connected, contributing citizens of the 21st Century. For the past 6 years in New Zealand, Sydney & Perth, Teachers, Principals & Support Staff have attended this Conference, to be recharged, inspired, to learn, refocus & reaffirm teaching practice. This Conference is unique from any other Educational Conference you will attend as it has a mix of both personal & professional development. The more you develop personally the better you will become professionally. You will hear speakers from both the practical teaching perspective, the self-care & attitude perspective.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Judy Willis

Topics include:

• Sustaining Students Classroom Attention in the Digital Age
• How Emotion Impacts the Brain’s Successful Learning
• Using Brain Research to Help Students Develop their highest Cognitive Potentials for 21st Century Success
• Launching Self Directed Learners
• Curriculum Mapping for the 21st Century
• Assessing and Reporting on the Habits of Mind
• What’s happened to creativity – Are you actually making a difference?
• Stress Diffusions
• Thinkers Keys
• Anchoring for Success
• A Celebration of Learning

Keynote speaker: Tony Ryan

Who Should Attend?

• Primary Teachers
• School Senior Leaders
• Secondary Teachers
• Early Childhood Teachers
• Support Staff
• Administration staff

Super Early Bird Investment!

$495 per person (full price $595)
or
$395 per person for groups of 10+ (full price $495)
(Must be booked and paid for by 30th September)
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CLESOL 2012 Conference

Emerging opportunities in new learning spaces

He akoranga hou, he huarahi hou.

Location:

International Pacific College, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Dates:

Thursday 4 – Sunday 7 October 2012


This reflects a variety of contemporary challenges that exist for both learners and their teachers, such as engaging in blended learning situations, integrating content and language, increasing intercultural interactions, and building relevant needs analysis and leadership models in different teaching/learning contexts.

The programme will be developed around this theme, and a call for papers will be announced in October 2011.

Keynote Speakers

• Prof Chris Davison, Professor of Education and Head of the School of Education, University of New South Wales, Sydney
• Cathy Dewes, Tumuaki (Principal), Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Ruamata, Rotorua
• Dr. Andreas Lund, Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research and Vice Dean at the Faculty of Education, University of Oslo, Norway
• Sunita Narayan, President, CLANZ, Wellington
• Prof. Paul Nation, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington
• Prof. Amy Tsui, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) and Chair Professor (Chair of Language and Education), University of Hong Kong
• Prof. Cynthia White, Head of School, Professor of Applied Linguistics, Massey University, Palmerston North

Enquiries

For registrations of interest, sponsorship and other enquiries, please contact the conference organisers: Paardekooper & Associates, PO Box 41002, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt 5047, New Zealand

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Breakfast in Dunedin: "Social Media for educators"

DK
Social Media Manager - CORE Education

"Social Media for educators"

Wednesday, 28 September
at 7.45am

VENUE

Mornington Presbyterian Church Hall
16 Maryhill Terrace
Mornington
Dunedin

COST

$30 including GST

REGISTRATION DUE

By Monday, 26 September
Register online


What's all this social media nonsense? Using cross-sector examples of social media in action DK will show how organizations are utilizing social media to humanize their brand and leveraging the power of social principles to achieve wider learning opportunities such as the ability to connect with experts across the world.
What is the value of this to educators? DK will illustrate that while Twitter and blogs are two examples of social media, there are many more examples to be adapted and adopted. We know the world is different now but what's really changed for young people? What are the opportunities for educators to explore the use of social media and how does this approach challenge the traditional model of education.

Breakfast will be served at 7.45am, with DK beginning the discussion at 8am. He will wrap things up around 9am but you are invited to stay and chat with DK, CORE staff and one another after the seminar.

Bio:

DK joined CORE Education in July as the company's first Social Media Manager after recently emigrating from the UK where he was the Founding Director of the highly successful MediaSnackers.

MediaSnackers inspire people to learn, work and live differently with social media. This work has included developing and delivering social media training for teachers and youth services, devising brand raising strategies for national government departments and social media marketing strategies for games manufacturers. Recent clients have included the Welsh Assembly, UNICEF and The Gates Foundation.

DK has also created Social Media For Suits, a personalized mentoring for CEOs and executives who want to understand and effectively use social media.

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The Fin Brothers - Episode 1

Greenpeace have a new series being on their vimeo channel. It might be worth following their RSS.



The Fin Brothers, Clark and Bruce, have teamed up once again to fight ocean crime. Follow their progress, brought to you in weekly episodes, as they take on the bad guys and bring them to justice. Episode 1 introduces our two marine heros. Tweet