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REFLECTIVE SUMMARY  - Improving skill and effectiveness of questioning and thinking across the curriculum in all class levels at Paeroa Christian School. Background / Context Data analysis showed questioning and thinking strategies were not...

Emailing with Year 1-2 Students @ Miller Avenue School Background:  Year One/Two class with the teacher going on short-term maternity leave and not wanting to lose touch with initiatives that were already set up so that there would be a...

Reflective Summary – Storytelling through Animation at David Street School National Goal 3: Teachers to integrate e- learning effectively into their practice creating an innovative and exciting learning environment for all students Year Level:...

Reflective Summary St Joseph’s Paeroa Context: Literacy – Writing from visual cues and using imagination to create a story for publication online. Whole school initiative. Create for a wider audience for their...

  Reflection Summary Goldfields - Using Visual Aids In Learning Background: Goldfields School is a special school which relies on the daily implementation and use of visual aids within the classroom. ICTs have increasingly become an integral...

REFLECTIVE SUMMARY  - Karangahake SchoolBackground: The whole school was participating in inquiry learning about Matariki: the purpose of celebrating and sharing knowledge about Matariki. It was to conclude with a whole school sleepover and a...

Motivating Literacy through YouTube Years 2&3 Background: A continued concern is that, although, many of the children are reading at or above their chronological age this does not reflect in their written work. Anecdotal evidence and STAR...

REFLECTIVE SUMMARY Background and Context Final year of Three Rivers ICT contract, Netherton School, full primary. Aims and Purpose – Goals 2 and 3 of Contract To ensure engagement of all teachers and teaching staff. Provide specific...

Context Three Rivers Cluster, Hikutaia School.  Development of class blogs across the school to connect and share beyond the classroom and extend the learning community. Background  We wanted to look at making comments and feeding back...

Context Three Rivers Cluster, Hikutaia School.  Development of a school wide approach to improving teaching and learning through teacher action inquiry. Background  While school Learning Walks and Teaching Inquiries had links to school...

The context Teachers from a variety of levels (Year 1-13) and schools (primary, full primary and special) across the cluster gathered for a Teacher Only Day focusing on Inquiry.  The Inquiry aspect was covered by Dr Jeni Wilson (Associate of...

Background: Four years ago Goldfields was very much a low-tech school with no teacher emailing, little use of Information Communiction Technologies (ICTs) within the classroom and poorly equipped (old computers, no interactive whiteboards, few...

Background and Context Final year of Three Rivers ICT contract, Netherton School, full primary. Aims and Purpose – National Goals 2 and 3 To change the school culture from a teacher directed approach to a student driven approach to...

Background At the beginning of 2010, the Catholic Diocese introduced a digital resource to support the Religious Education Programme, which aligns with the special character of our school.  This coincided with our joining of the Three Rivers...

Background content: Karangahake School caters for years 0-8 students at our small, rural school. This year our school-wide focus is on Inquiry and incorporating more IT tools to improve learning outcomes for our students. Aims and Purpose: To...

Blogging Background and Context:   Our Year 0-6 primary school has journeyed to the point where our children have been creating some amazing content. Though this content has been shown on data projectors or taken home on memory sticks we...

Level: Year 7 Maori Boys at Paeroa Central School Context: Written and oral language - writing and presenting their stories as sound bites at the NGA IWI FM radio station in Paeroa. Intentions and links to classroom practice: The literacy...

Cluster Goal 3: Schools develop a culture of goal setting, reflection and sharing. Success Criteria: Students are highly motivated learners who set goals, measure successes and refine their strategies for further learning Who are we?  Teacher...