Mindlab – swimming in PD

Watch these to see the difference taking the Mindlab course has made to Paul's teaching.... and check out it has influenced and changed Tracey's classroom.

Global trends: the importance of collaboration

I was struck by a sense of gloom about our future when reading about the trend in accelerating technology, which offers both progress and disruption to the world as we know it. How do we prepare our young people for their uncertain future? But listening to my students as they discuss such weighty topics as...

Sharing my passion

Contribution of teacher inquiry topics to my Communities of Practice. Fundamentally as a teacher we see our purpose as instructing, guiding and nurturing our students through the relationships we build with them. Yet, through all the 'noise' of doing education we get distracted and can lose sight of the complete purpose we have for our...

A journey to the future

A change in my practice towards future-orientated learning and teaching. Theme: A curriculum that uses knowledge to develop learning capacity Thoughts, Ministry of Education (2012) looks at the future challenges in learning and teaching, one of the themes is around learning capacity. I am currently part of a traditional system where Science as part of...

How good is the mirror?

MindLab Activity 1 "Critically evaluate your reflective practice" Examine my current understanding of reflective practice I completed a MindLab survey to look at my reflective practice. My initial belief's were that: critical reflection means criticising your own practice, disagree. A consistent response compared with others doing the same survey. critical reflection means criticising your colleagues...

Instagram moments #nofiltersscience

Whakatauki He waka eke noa A canoe which we are all in with no exception This weeks whakatauki reminded me of one of challenges of social media in the classroom and the question of... "what is the predominant social media platform (or canoe) that students are using When some students do and some don't you...

‘Practicing Change’

  The theme of this last reflective post is Change. The 32 weeks of professional development has created change on many levels. The old adage that states " you don't know how much you don't know" comes to mind.  Teachers are task rich and time poor; they are often faced with a myriad of tasks, professional...

Road to Nowhere…

Well we know where we're going But we don't know where we've been And we know what we're knowing But we can't say what we've seen And we're not little children And we know what we want And the future is certain Give us time to work it out Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads...

INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

A blend or interdisciplinary collaboration of positive and negative space to achieve real-world success 🙂  (See above picture.) As the Head of Health Education at Waimea College I am aware that the amount and depth of connections with the community is quite limited when compared to my primary colleagues. I am an active Board of...