Best Practice Workshops

I was asked to present at our PLD 'Best Practice Workshops' this week. I shared about my musician hubs individual learning programmes and how they set their own goals and plan what they are doing when. These were my notes from the workshops:

Restorative PLD

I was given the opportunity to go on a PB4L Restorative Practice Workshop on Restorative Conferences: Mini Conferences. It was an extremely useful workshop and refresher for restorative practices. We held mini chats and practiced facilitating restoratives. We were given an extremely useful resource: a restorative conference card:

We got a chance to think about a genuine situation we have been in recently with a student where we have held a restorative conference and go through the motions using this card. I keep this in my bag now and used it for a restorative the other day. I think the best thing I took away from the day was that it is okay to use this card openly and tell the participants you are going to use it and it sort of keeps everyone safe and makes the structure of the restorative clear for all.

Student Feedback

As we are pretty much at the halfway point of the year for our seniors (as they leave very early in term 4). I thought it was a good time to see how they were finding Musicians Hub and whether they were enjoying the way our year was structured.  Here are the results I got from them:

I was really stoked to see that students feel successful in music and that the majority know what their goals are and what they still need to do to achieve their credits in our class this year. They are enjoying deciding how they organise their day and booking their own spaces and managing their own learning. I'm really glad that it looks like its working!