Growth Mindset

In our Mind Lab session this evening, we spent the evening exploring growth mindset. Our challenge was to create a Stop Motion video that summarised some of the main issues related to growth mindset.

Video by Lorna, Pip, and Vicky

 

Using Scratch to Code Shapes

Computational thinking in action

How We Recognise and Celebrate the Development of Key Competencies and 21st Century Learning Skills in Students and Teachers at Wainuioru School

Students:

🌠  Student of the week (although this isn't always specifically related to the key competencies and           21st century skills). 

🌠  Praise postcards (sent home to families to acknowledge students' personal successes - however           big or small, and at the time that they are noticed). We could probably do with increasing the               frequency of our communications on this front!

🌠  Principal's Award (weekly)

🌠  Wonderful Wainuioruian awards (termly). these are specifically related to consistently students           demonstrate the school values, which are very closely linked to the key competencies

🌠  Mums and daughters/sons breakfast and Dads and sons/daughters breakfast (annually on a                   rotating basis). the students have an opportunity to share their work with their families.

🌠  Pets day and the school duathlon (both annual events) also provide students with the opportunity         to share their learning with their families.

🌠  Sharing assemblies (fortnightly) afford students another opportunity to share their learning with           an audience.

🌠  Other sources of sharing include class Facebook pages, Twitter, Skype sessions with our buddy           classes in the California and Prague

🌠  The school newsletter

Teachers:

Identifying specific examples of how we celebrate our colleagues' success and developing use of 21st century learning skills has proved to be quite challenging. 

Clearly we don't really have a system for this, however it is one that we should definitely focus on addressing. 

How do you celebrate staff success in your school? Please feel free to leave a comment below.

How We Recognise and Celebrate the Development of Key Competencies and 21st Century Learning Skills in Students and Teachers at Wainuioru School

Students:

🌠  Student of the week (although this isn't always specifically related to the key competencies and           21st century skills). 

🌠  Praise postcards (sent home to families to acknowledge students' personal successes - however           big or small, and at the time that they are noticed). We could probably do with increasing the               frequency of our communications on this front!

🌠  Principal's Award (weekly)

🌠  Wonderful Wainuioruian awards (termly). these are specifically related to consistently students           demonstrate the school values, which are very closely linked to the key competencies

🌠  Mums and daughters/sons breakfast and Dads and sons/daughters breakfast (annually on a                   rotating basis). the students have an opportunity to share their work with their families.

🌠  Pets day and the school duathlon (both annual events) also provide students with the opportunity         to share their learning with their families.

🌠  Sharing assemblies (fortnightly) afford students another opportunity to share their learning with           an audience.

🌠  Other sources of sharing include class Facebook pages, Twitter, Skype sessions with our buddy           classes in the California and Prague

🌠  The school newsletter

Teachers:

Identifying specific examples of how we celebrate our colleagues' success and developing use of 21st century learning skills has proved to be quite challenging. 

Clearly we don't really have a system for this, however it is one that we should definitely focus on addressing. 

How do you celebrate staff success in your school? Please feel free to leave a comment below.

A reflection on how my use 21st century learning skills stacks up against the ITL learning activities rubrics

In preparation for week 3's session at the Mind Lab, we were challenged to reflect on some examples of learning activities that we provide for our colleagues or students that promote the development of 21st century learning skills. 

Here is a short film about our current classroom project, and how well it stacks up against the ITL 21CLD Learning Activities rubrics for Knowledge Creation and Collaboration.

21st Century Skills in the Classroom

In preparation for week 3's session at the Mind Lab, we were challenged to reflect on some examples of learning activities that we provide for our colleagues or students that promote the development of 21st century learning skills. 

Here is a short film about our current classroom project, and how well it stacks up against the ITL 21CLD Learning Activities rubrics for Knowledge Creation and Collaboration.

Innovative Teaching and 21st Century Skills

Week 2 at The Mind Lab 

This week our in class task was to work collaboratively to create a short film about 21st century learning skills.

We chose to create a iMovie trailer that demonstrated how ICT could be used to enhance student learning.

According to the ITL 21CLD Learning Activities Rubrics (Microsoft Partners in Learning, 2015), use of ICT for learning should enable students to engage in knowledge construction activities that would otherwise be impossible or extremely challenging to complete without the use of ICT.

We used the Use of ICT for Learning rubric to plan a theoretical learning sequence that involved collaboration between a New Zealand school and a Japanese school. The aim of the collaboration was to promote knowledge construction around greetings and basic language skills; and the development of a shared understanding of the similarities between our two cultures. The students from each country would practise their language skills by engaging in real-time interactions via Skype or Facetime. They would then have an opportunity to use these skills to interact with people during the completion of a school exchange program.

How did we do against the rubrics? 

Please feel free to leave some constructive feedback 😊