Connected Rotorua Term 2 2017

Cold winter evenings make for small gatherings but at the Connected Rotorua evening we discussed Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru's developing "Effective Future Focused Teaching" mindmap. We then got to reassemble the parts in how we personally envisioned the system of Effective Future Focused Teaching could look like. Always fun playing with ideas.

Maths Parent Evening

As the Mathematics leader at our school, I facilitated an open evening for parents to learn more about how their children learn maths at our school and how they can help at home. I talked to the parents about real life maths, math progressions, and basic facts learning at home (see my slideshow below). Meanwhile the children were engaged in playing the maths games they play in class; we had areas for each team to share with whānau. Afterwards the parents joined the children in the hall where they learned how to play math games; and lots of prizes were given out. A successful evening with lots of positive feedback from parents and staff.

Peer Coaching with NPeW

Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru have been doing an amazing job at providing our school and district with future focused professional development. Our last few workshops have been focussed on peer coaching and questioning. This ties in nicely with my Maths Leadership course that covered similar areas in workshop 1.

To sum it up; good leadership and peer coaches should be good listeners first!