Fairfield Intermediate School

Fairfield Intermediate School

School Needs…

Strategic Direction for 2008

·  Behaviour

·  Professionalism/Consistency

·  Learning – Literacy, ICT (Integrated Curriculum, Inquiry, Thinking Skills, New Curriculum, Technical Skills), Numeracy

Behaviour

Objectives / Key Tasks / Key Personnel / Timeframe / Outcome / Reflection
To implement school wide behaviour plan. / Bill Rogers – Cracking the Hard Class – Selected staff to attend
Individual coaching and mentoring regarding classroom behaviour management strategies.
Individual coaching and mentoring – classroom climate strategies / Diana Webb (Science) Melanie Neuman PRT Release Teacher, Mike Logan (Year 2 PRT), Gloria Coromandel, Lisa Morresey
Stacey Hickman
Lisa Morresey
RTLB Sue Taylor
Mike Logan
RTLB Sue Taylor
Stacey Hickman / 21/5/08
Term 2 / Behaviour Management Plan to be used consistently across the school.
Attended Bill Rogers Course
Lisa unable to attend – Domestic Sick Leave
Supporting teacher to use school wide behaviour management plan and support with target students.
Collaborative teaching – relating to others, classroom climate, anti bullying strategies. / Lisa to investigate cost of Bill Rogers on site for all staff.
To trains staff in Skills for Adolescence. / Health Education/Social Studies/Social Skills Programme
Class Climate Strategies
Community Service
Drug Education
Assertiveness Skills / Robb Gunn, Gloria Coromandel, Sandra Cole, Bernie Lockhart, Stacey Davison Stacey Hickman Cindy Bardebes / 17-18 July 2008 / High quality resources.
Programmes particularly useful for the beginning of the school year.
Revision for more experienced teachers. Beneficial as it gave teaching strategies to use when specific behaviour/social situations may occur. / Recommendation as an Induction Course for new teachers.
To develop understanding or youth justice system. / Youth Offending
Processes
Family Group Conference
Court Appearances / Helen McLaughlin
Youth Aide, New Zealand Police / 22nd of May 2008 / ü / Good update on process and legislation.

Professionalism/Consistency

Objectives / Key Tasks / Key Personnel / Timeframe / Outcome / Reflection
To plan collaboratively. / Team Meetings and Collaborative Planning Day
Big Concept Planning – Focus Learning Areas, Values, Key Competencies New Curriculum / Bernard Peterson, ICT Contract Director, Ministry of Education
Lisa, Team Leaders, Syndicates, Staff / Call back day / School is now planning collaboratively instead of as individuals. We are planning from the new curriculum. Teams meeting in the holidays to complete plans. / 90% of staff is on board with collaborative planning. Teachers are trying new things. Need to share and celebrate good practise.
To mentor team leaders to develop instructional leadership. / Reflection Collaborative Planning
What was successful? Issues? Where to next?
Classroom consistency - how evident is the learning? / Lisa, Bill, Helen, Belinda, Team Leaders, Syndicates
Rob Gunn Totara
Belinda Havill Kowhai
Sheila Prestage Matai
Karin Doull Kauri
Dialogue, sharing unit plans, classroom walk and gawks. / Weekly Senior Teacher Meeting and then addressed in fortnightly syndicate meetings
9/6/08
16/6/08
24/6/08
1/7/08 / Sharing good practise.
Modelling strategies for instructional leadership, sharing good practise. How can you support your teachers? Models of planning for other team leaders. Deprivatising of classrooms.
Some syndicates walked and gawked at other classrooms as part of syndicate meeting. / Some Team leaders still reluctant to talk and share good practise. Began with Team Leaders who were more confident with collaborative and integrated planning. Challenge for leaders – how do you scaffold the learning of your teachers? Is the learning evident in each of your classrooms?
To participate in National Organisations.
To build leadership capacity. / AIMS Executive Meeting
Research Engagement in Middle Schooling
Team Up Website – School wide data collection
Electronic Roll Returns
Opposition Spokesperson for Education
New Zealand Curriculum – new curriculum
Learning Languages
NZEI Review – Ops grants / Bill Noble, Lisa Morresey / 16/17 June 2006 / Gained insight into issues and stance of Intermediate and Middle School principals from across the country.
Mary Chamberlain MOE to visit FIS? / Positive professional learning for Lisa – re big picture, focus and role of principal, issues for Intermediate and Middle Schools.
National Reference Group – Attendance / Ministry of Education Presentation and consultation of assessment campaign 2009. Examined school practise in attendance. / Representing AIMS
Bill, Lisa / 24/6/08 / Affirmation for work Helen is doing to analyse and monitor attendance. Identification of achievement target. Anything less that 90% is deemed to be Chronic non-attendance = 4 weeks per year. These children have been identified.
Link between non-attendance and achievement data. / Dialogue needs to be had with teachers (target). Specific students need attendance goals.
Helen to feedback to staff on attendance data.
Lisa to compare achievement data with attendance data.
To train staff on new attendance codes. / New Attendance Codes
Using Classroom Manager Rolls
Shortcuts and Tricks / Claire Crump
Syndicates / Term 2 / Attended - syndicate meetings to train teams. / Teachers found this very beneficial.
To build capacity in accounting and finance. / Finance
Reporting
Cash flow
Changes in Equity
Budgets
Depreciation / Wendy Branton / Thursdays
Term 2
Ongoing / Up skill and consolidate personal and professional knowledge.
To ensure legislative compliance with International Student Programme. / “Code of Practice – Regulatory Compliance & Risk Identification Workshops” / Pennie Braithwaite / June 13th 2008 – Mt Maunganui / Very important: ensures the school is fulfilling all requirements of the code of compliance as set out by the MOE in regard to International students (fee paying.) / This was a refresher course for practicing export education industry professionals targeted to keep staff up to date on current trends and issues.

Literacy

Objectives / Key Tasks / Key Personnel / Timeframe / Outcome / Reflection
To train staff in Assessment tools. / To analyse target students Reading data.
To present data.
To identify next steps for learning. / Syndicate Literacy Leaders
Julie Crawford Totara
Karin Doull Kauri
Mike Devoy Nikau
Cindy Bardebes Puriri
Zena Taylor Kowhai
Lisa Morresey Kahikatea
Ra Peters Rimu
Sandra Cole Matai / Term 2 syndicate meetings / Mining the Data
Develop teacher understanding of literacy data and student needs.
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Language For Learning – Developing Language Proficiency (supporting the ESOL student in mainstream classes). / Differences between learning as a first/additional language
How culture impacts on learning
Challenges these students face
Support strategies
Using and adapting resources / Zena Taylor
Carolyn Toka / May 23rd 2008 – Waikato University / ü / Some aspects of this course were presented to staff at a meeting. Further workshops to be undertaken later this term and term 4.
To examine needs/abilities of ESOL Learners.
(English Speakers of Other Languages)
To identify ways that we can support these learners in our classes. / ESOL Learners at FIS
Refugee Students
Needs/Attributes
Catering for these learners in our classes / Penny Braithwaite, Zena Taylor, Ian / 6/5/08 Staff Meeting / ü / Background information for teachers. Need to look at teaching strategies next time.
All staff to teach quality guided reading. / What is Guided Reading? (Video)
Examples of Guided Reading Planning / Lisa Morresey, Peter Bird and Kahikatea Syndicate / Term 2 Syndicate Meetings / Expectation that Guided Reading Approach is to be implemented in all classrooms. / Shift in practise Rumaki and Bi-lingual Rooms now teaching guided reading lessons in groups, positive shifts in practise. DPC to model Guided Reading for accelerate students in Room 8. Follow up observation still to occur in Room 7.
All staff to teach quality guided reading.
To train literacy leaders in process of observation. / Comprehension Strategies Reading Gerald Duffy
Observation and Feedback
Peer observation and feedback / Lisa, Zena, Literacy Leaders, Syndicates
Lisa, Literacy Leaders, Zena
All classroom teachers
All classroom teachers / Syndicate Meetings Early Term 2
Completed
Week 1-4 Term 2
Weeks 7-9 Term 2 / Choose comprehension strategy. Relevant Readings. Brainstorm criteria
Observe Teacher Practice, Guided Reading, across school. Goals set for teacher practice. Trained Literacy Leaders in observation and feedback.
All observations written up and analysed. Follow up professional reading allocated to address individual goals.
All teachers completed an informal observation in guided reading. 1. To give peer feedback. 2. To reflect upon and consolidate own practise. / Evidence of co-constructed criteria for chosen comprehension strategy in classrooms.
Lisa completed 22 of these observations, as she wanted to see as many teachers as possible. The writing up of these observations took its tool 3 + hours per observation. It was an overambitious feat. Written observations finally completed in school holidays. Data from the observations still to be collated and analysed compared to term 3 data. New Literacy leaders now set up/trained to complete these observations late term 3.
Debrief to be undertaken in syndicate meetings early term 3. DPC to analyse findings.
Literacy Leaders Curriculum Meeting / Debrief Observations
Action Plan – Review
Assessment – Professional Reading – Self Assessment/Learning Criteria / Literacy Leaders
Lisa / Week 10, Term 2 / Action Plan updated.
Two versions of AsTTle to be given T3
Plan for Term 3 complete. / Literacy leaders must ensure that literacy tasks are on Team Meeting agendas, and minuted. Staff needs identified from observations (Success Criteria), Formative Assessment in Reading to be explored.
To develop literacy leader.
To represent NZ Aims. / Attend National Literacy Reference Group Meeting
Literacy Progressions Draft Document
Identification of Reading Achievement Levels Required for each year level. English –on Line development,
Resources update / Lisa Morresey representing NZ Aims / 25/6/08 / Attended
FIS to trial and give feedback to Ministry of Education on Literacy Learning Progressions Document. / Voice for practitioners among a sea of academics, advisers and Ministry Staff.
Great professional learning opportunity for me.
Will introduce this document to Literacy Team this term and trial school wide term 4.
To develop the FIS ESOL curriculum. / A Course without Curriculum
Principles of ESOL Course Design
Links to NZ Curriculum and key ESOL Resources
Ideas for course content and sequencing / Pennie Braithwaite
Waikato University / 24/5/08 / ü / Ideal as a lead in to an intensive 2 day course in term 3 on implementing the new ELLP (English Language Learning Progression) programme due to begin in term 4.

ICT

Objectives / Key Tasks / Key Personnel / Timeframe / Outcome / Reflection
To develop ICT Lead Team. / ICT Leaders Day Contract Goals, Organisation, 21st century learners, Reading – What is Quality Learning? Planning for specialist team meetings. / Lisa Morresey, Belinda Havill, Barbara Reid, Peter Bird, Shannan McPeak, Lynndon Barton / 6/5/08 / Positive day. Team has clearer view of what the contract entails. Have planned specialist Meetings. / Good to get lead team on board. Forward Planning. Able to engage in deep discussion.
To continue to develop and participate in the professional learning community that introduces a wide range of ideas, resources and examples of effective practise. / Contract Goals, Organisation, 21st century learners, Reading – What is Quality Learning? / ICT Lead Team Specialist Teams
Digital
Mainstream
Bilingual
Accelerate
Technology / 20/5/08 / Good conversation and discussion around what do students need to learn?
New staff needed background information. / Still developing models for distributed leadership.
We need to see our skilled ICT teachers taking on more of a leadership role and do more sharing.
To up skill teacher technical skills. / PowerPoint
Beginners / Rob Gunn Facilitator –
Whole staff except teachers below. Less confident staff at FIS and Individual Teachers from Cluster Schools / 15/5/08 / Positive. Range of skills. Teachers enjoyed individual approach of workshop. / We need a follow up session for this group, as well as a session for advanced users. Next step linking across programmes/platforms
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Animation Software Marvin / Belinda Havill
Julie Crawford Andrew Jacobs Stacey Davison Jenna Trousselot, Nicky Carter,
Angus Lauagiagi
Ian Buck
Paula Weedon
Megan McIndoe / 15/5/08 / Marvin to be installed on server.
Time to explore new software. / Wish we had an expert on Marvin – very much experiential learning.
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Software – Gallagher Room / Andrew
Mainstream Team / 20/5/08 / Mainstream teachers using software in classes and in Gallagher Room / Greater use of software across the school. Do mainstream rooms need greater access?
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Support for Mainstream teachers who are teaching in the digital learning environment of the Gallagher room. / Barbara Reid ICTPD Facilitator
Megan McIndoe
Cindy Bardebes
Paula Weedon / Term 2
Week 1-3
Week 4-6
Week 6-9 / Barbara mentoring teachers in Gallagher Room. Helping with students in class. Challenging teacher practise to integrate ICT into the learning. / Small steps as teachers are coming to grips with the technology. We need to focus on modelling quality teaching and learning experiences in the digital environment.
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Musac Classroom Manager -
Report Design
Data Collection / Lisa Morresey
Claire Crump / 3/6/08 / Able to redesign reports and consolidate old data fields. / Very useful course. Claire Crump has particularly strong skills in designing templates and consolidating fields. Reports need to be looked at late 2008. Curriculum and shifts in practise has moved beyond the current reporting requirements.
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Animations
Using the Data Projector for Beginners / Whole Staff except
Projector Group
Berkley Normal Middle School
Nelda Halgryn facilitated session for Mike Devoy, Daphne Ward, Lynne Pam Dixon, Alison Mitchell,
Mark, Sue Taylor, Ngaria Walker / 12/6/08 / Claymation using digital camera apple Mac cameras and Photostory.
Drawing – Animations
Needs based session starting from very beginning. / Excellent session. Staff bubbling keen to use movie maker for animation.
To up skill teacher technical skills. / Digital Story Telling
Interactive Whiteboard Demonstration / Mike Devoy, Daphne Ward, Lynne Pam Dixon, Alison Mitchell, Mark, Sue, Ngaria
Breathe Technology
Remainder of the staff. / 26/6/08
26/6/08 / Starter session to show what board can do. / Staff to play with boards. ICT PD to book more sessions term 3 and 4.