Kelston Girls’ College WSL CoL Presentation
Introduction Changes of Personnel: ● Parehuia/Kate ● Matt/Rebecca ● Mara/Across School Leader Foci for the Year: ● Continue with Poutama Pounamu ● Introduce Whakatauki cards ● Hui Whakawera ● Te Mauri Ora Hui (Co construction Meetings) ● Literacy (Seniors) ● Quality Circle Time
Literacy Focus ● LFX requested that KYL focus on raising literacy levels for seniors. ● Personal Inquiry for KYL was ( Raranga 5 Rangatiratanga) improving academic literacy in order to promote change where the learners have the best possible outcomes for both internal and external assessments. ● Set up a referral system whereby teachers refer students who need additional assistance. ● Literacy review for Years 9 - 11 provided an opportunity to reflect on past and current practices. ● Arts Faculty did pretesting, learning (Five word Friday) and post testing of academic words to improve external results. Selected students gained literacy strategies and credits from this referral system. Most students shifted from below 20 to over 20 in Level 3.
Quality Circle Time ● Attended a four day Conference with Jenny Mosely. ● Led staff PLD. ● Created a shared document where staff could make a ‘Tiny, Achievable, Tickable Target’ e.g. smile at students. ● Used Circle Time with juniors to discuss Kelston Way, have restoratives and teach concepts. Improved relationships with students and awareness of respectful relationships ( Raranga 3 Whakapai Ake).
Where to from here? ● Ongoing PLD for School Wide Literacy will be part of a Curriculum review. ● Facilitating Circle Time within the Faculty when seniors leave. ● Facilitate Quality Circle Time Workshop for CoL day on 29th January. ● Two of the WSL’s in 2019 will be new appointments.
A valuable insight into Hui Whakarewa cultural responsiveness Facilitated by: Mara Blucher & Matt Ross Supported by: Robbie Lamont ● 3 x hui ● Ongoing observations ● Personal coach for 2 years (in school CoL) Since my initial teacher training, I have not experienced such rich, vulnerable and challenging professional learning within a The support of the group school. Especially as the learning was was amazing. I learnt a lot supported by the continuous access to our from Rebecca and Hanna in-school CoL leaders, with on-ongoing in terms of the strategies observations and opportunities to apply our they use and the way they learning about culturally responsive implement pedagogy in pedagogy in the classroom. the classroom.
TERM 3 Adapting where we had been previously, we were able to reflect on our journey this far... TERM 2 Our individual cultural differences became apparent...
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