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B01 - Corinne Walsh
Developing 21st Century Learners

Are we preparing children for their future or our past?

This workshop explores a Curriculum Integration Model that embeds Big Ideas, Deep Understandings, Key Competencies and Habits of Mind authentically across the curriculum. You will come away from this workshop with lots of strategies to engage children in self assessment, reflective thinking, goal setting and higher order thinking. Come along and see how an inquiry approach can help prepare our learners for the 21st century!

B02 - Richard Gerver
The Grange Story

Richard will work through the changes and innovations he led during his time as Principal at Grange, developments that saw the school become a global symbol of innovation. He will share insights into the development and communication of vision and the shift into practice. There will be time to discuss and question Richard about all aspects of school transformation and time to explore what this may mean for you in your school

B03 - Hamish Ruawai & Dr. Fiona Ells

EXCELLENT teachers make the biggest difference to student learning. Kaikohe West School has developed a coaching model based on the identification and study of what excellent teachers do.

Teachers won this model of professional development through the co-construction of what excellence looks like, tailor made support to meet individual need and considerable changes to outdated planning and assessment systems that allow teachers to focus on what really counts.

Transparent use of Teacher Achievement has seen shifts in both teacher beliefs and practice, especially when that classroom door closes. This model has been presented at a number of MOE seminars across the country through ALim (Accelerated Learning in Maths) Rotorua Principals’ Association and National Standards symposiums.

B04 - Anne Lawrence
Digging for gold: Investigating rich mathematics tasks

Aimed at teachers of Years 9-11 mathematics.

In this workshop we will explore a range of tasks that provide the opportunity to develop relational thinking, and abstract thinking in solving problems. We will discuss related issues including appropriate levels of scaffolding and prompting that will enable students to access these tasks.

B05 - Kat Storey

Edtech’s Kat Storey together with two practicing teachers demonstrate the magic LMS (Learning Management System) ‘Ultranet’ You have to see it to believe it!

B06 - Jennifer Moss
Music Matter!

Discover simple ways to hook you and your students into the benefits of ‘daily music in your classroom. You don’t need to play an instrument to inspire music making in your class!

Music provides stability, improves all methods of communication, self esteem, planning and managing in your class. Let inspired educator and musician Jennifer Moss guide you through interactive, body, beat and voice games to stimulate mind, body and imagination. Once you experience the sheer joy of music making, you won’t be able to wait to share it with your students.

B07 - Nick Baylis
Session Two: Personal Brands Workshop

Human brands are becoming more and more important in our increasingly connected and personal society. What are the implications of this within the school environment? How can we use the principles and practices of brands and branding to effect change and create dynamic learning environments’. What are the secrets to creating strong and engaging personal brands and what are the key attributes needed within education? This session brings a new perspective to the table for todays’ teachers and principals to contemplate and work with.

B08 - Jeremy Ogle
Science in classrooms

Can you make your students B.E.E.M when taking primary science lessons? That is, are they Busy, Engaged, Excited and Motivated in your class lessons? Science is one of the best curriculums for engaging students in your class. This workshop will look at ideas, lessons, experiments and approaches whilst making your students B.E.E.M in your science lessons.

B09 - Heather Bell
Collaborative Conversations in the Cloud #1

How can you and your students have collaborative conversations without leaving the comfort of your own school? This workshop will investigate a range of cloud-based tools and unpack ways of using these to access a wider and richer learning community for students and teachers. Decisions for the future are accessible today if you know where to look. A different range of tools will be looked at in a following workshop.

Bio
Heather is an adviser working for Massey University but based in Napier. Currently she leads the Network Learning Communities project in the Massey region, where she supports clusters of principals to effectively implement the New Zealand Curriculum, encouraging the collaborative sharing of ideas, particularly online. Heather has wide experience in facilitating online and blended learning communities for teachers and school leaders. Heather has a Masters in Education in which she researched effective facilitation of blended learning communities.

B10 - Musac
Informing teaching and learning using sharp data

Product ambassadors from MUSAC will host an interactive workshop which will introduce MUSAC’s new cloud based achievement engine. You will have the opportunity to hear MUSAC’s new direction and vision and contribute to defining and prioritising the next wave of cutting edge developments and technology designed to enable better decisions for student achievement.

B11 - Alan Wagstaff
Scaffolding Holistic/Integral Schooling

'You can lead a horse to water... but what if it turns out to be brine?

This workshop demonstrates, in compelling terms, that holistic hopes and dreams for education can prompt reputable and sustainable schooling. Innovative scheduling and pedagogic structures are explained that have successfully closed the gap between espoused, and practised, holistic theories in several schools. You will learn (1) the value and power of a scheduling structure called 'the three same day',(2) How to actualise an integral/holistic approach on a daily basis, (3) the importance of a dedicating time, daily, to deeply satisfying students, (4) a powerful answer to the challenge of subject-centeredness and the overcrowded curriculum. You always knew that schooling could be 'more'... turn this inkling into sustainable reality.

B12 - Natalie Cook
Moving children past “I can’t”

The ability to persevere through challenge and lock onto learning is a fundamental characteristic of resilient learners. Drawing on the work of Guy Claxton’s Building Learning Power (2002), the teaching team at West End kindergarten engaged in action research investigating what teaching strategies support children to embrace challenges in their learning and become resilient learners. The findings led to the development of a ‘resilience framework’ unique to their learning environment and teaching philosophy. Join the team as they present their ‘resilience framework’, the key messages they convey to learners and the teaching strategies used to support learners to navigate their way forward when embracing challenge.

B13 - Tracey Thorn
Your legs feel like my daddy’s face!

Tried and trusted ways to motivate and focus New Entrants (yes it can be done!) Covered in this workshop will be:

• Writing and reading teaching strategies that convince even the most doubting New Entrants that they can learn.
• Behaviour strategies that don’t involve tearing your hair out or crumbling in a corner!

B14 - Peggy Nesbitt
This session offers insights into an exciting new way of accelerating comprehension achievement in diverse “21st century” classroom.

Peggy Nesbitt, an experienced teacher and educational resource developer, will discuss how new research evidencebased teaching and learning approaches, combined with 21st century technology, show promise for accelerated literacy progress for all students in years 4 to 9 - offering more equitable outcomes for ESOL students and strugglers and excellence for able readers.

AsTTLE data will be discussed from two New Zealand classroom case studies where comprehension scores have increased dramatically as a result of new, evidence-led digital and book-based approach to teaching and learning.

Peggy will show video from these classrooms, demonstrate a revolutionary new digital interface for shared reading and discuss data that indicates student achievement is being accelerated as a result of students’ learning comprehension strategies, new vocabulary and fluency in rich pedagogic framework.

B15 - Stephanie Geddes
Inquiry for what, of what and how?

Teacher inquiry - current research tells us we should do it, our curriculum says we must do it, most of us say we do it, but do we really do it, or know how to and are we any good at it? This workshop will enable you to:

1. Explain what is meant by teacher inquiry
2. Understand why it is so important
3. Practise the skills of effective inquiry

Come join me as we work in partnership to make teacher inquiry more effective and fun!

Bio
My name is Stephanie Geddes. I started my teaching career in the States and have since been a part of the New Zealand education scene for the past nineteen years as a teacher, principal and adviser. I currently work for Massey University as a coordinator, Waikato University as a leading and assessment adviser and Auckland University as a first time principal mentor. My passion is to help make a positive difference to the achievement and well-being of students through building professional relationships with leaders and teachers in order to support them to lead the improvement of teaching and learning.

B16 - Dinah Harvey
Calculators Make You Think

This hands-on workshop will explore the use of calculators to develop number skills and key competencies through a variety of tasks to challenge your students thinking. Most suitable for teachers of Year 2-8 students Maximum: 80 participants