The Connected Cluster came about from a group of educators in Hamilton wishing to work with others for the betterment of the learners with in the region. Hamilton East Primary , Southwell School and St Andrews Middle School had worked together over the past seven years and all felt the benefit we were experiencing would be of interest to the whole Hamilton/Waikato community. The community is supported at this stage significantly by a Ministry of Education Regional ICTPD contract but is looking to expand to include more Community Partnerships.
Title: Learning Together (teaching as inquiry group)Cluster Year level: ThreeCluster type: RegionalThe Context: Using teaching as inquiry as a way for ConnectED to build distributed capacity.Supporting each other's inquiry as a way to build the...
Cluster GoalInterest groups who have not met previously are developing networks and increasing capacity across the schoolsWhat have we changedA key role of our regional group is to provide school leaders with information about leading change,...
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The aim of this open meeting is to provide face to face, flexible and interesting forums to explore and learn together.
The meeting is designed so that you can dip in and out of...
Personalised and Formative
There are a lot of places on the web that will help students build Number knowledge and basic facts recollection.
Sites like Xtra Math offer a few keen advantages.
It is intelligent enough to help develop what...
How Google Docs Might Help?
During the last school holidays I worked with colleagues looking at the use of Google Docs for literacy and at teacher dashboard an interface layer that works with Google Docs. We asked those present to add...
Action Research: Talk for Success
Name Of initiators : Think Tank Team
Investigation:
To improve and develop the oral language of English language learners and English first language speakers.
Use ICT as...
Title: Learning Together (teaching as inquiry group)Cluster Year level: ThreeCluster type: RegionalThe Context: Using teaching as inquiry as a way for ConnectED to build distributed capacity.Supporting each other's inquiry as a way to build the...
Cluster GoalInterest groups who have not met previously are developing networks and increasing capacity across the schoolsWhat have we changedA key role of our regional group is to provide school leaders with information about leading change,...
Kura Hakari - Regional Learning Feast
Kura hākari What is it?
Kura Hakari is an exciting sharing of new understandings generated from the 'Connected Professional Learning Community.' Schools will have 15 mins in which to present their...
Action Research: Ohaupo Writing 2011
Name Of initiators : Kerry Adams, Bev Boyes, Linda Clarke and Bruce Mitchell.
Investigation: We are looking into our current teaching practice in writing. Comparing student...
Hamilton East School Action ResearchNote: There has been a change of facilitator from Linda Woolhouse/Pippa Wright to Sheryl Nagels. Therefore I (Sheryl) am rewriting this Action Research Plan as part of the process to take ownership of this...
Name of Initiators
Mike Sutton, Hazel Woodhouse, and Angela Hammond.
Investigation
How effective are our renewed e-journals in recording and informing students, and parents of formative student learning. Our Research Questions: Has student...
How Google Docs Might Help?
During the last school holidays I worked with colleagues looking at the use of Google Docs for literacy and at teacher dashboard an interface layer that works with Google Docs. We asked those present to add...
Action Research: Talk for Success
Name Of initiators : Think Tank Team
Investigation:
To improve and develop the oral language of English language learners and English first language speakers.
Use ICT as...