Aligning my current inquiry foci with my goals for personal and school growth
1)By the end of the year I am working collaboratively alongside teachers in their classrooms in Mathematics and eLearning
- observing
- giving feedback
- focussing on student achievement
so that teachers have a growing understanding of best practice and are raising achievement for their students
2)By the end of the year I am setting up and leading PLD in Mathematics across the school
Run PLD which is easily accessible to all staff in a variety of ways:
- 1 to 1
- In class - modelling and observations
- Team workshops
- Online
so that teachers are engaged in effective professional learning
Through the PLD there will be:
- A shift in teachers practice (observations)
- Raised student achievement (use of baseline data)
- Deprivatization of teachers practice and classrooms
Underpinning both of these inquiries is the need to
- build relational trust as discussed here is a core for us as a school that is on our 3rd principal in 18months
- build my ability to have open to learning conversations as discussed by Vivianne Robinson. this is crucial to the development of a shift in teacher mindset to focus on student achivement
One key thing I am hoping will have an impact is ensuring I allocate some of my time to providing in class self selected pld for teachers. I feel this will allow people to build areas of practice that there may not be provision for in the general timetable of school-wide pld.
