Leading Change Workshop

I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to go on a Connected Learning Advisory Workshop 'Leading Change in Digital Technologies' in Papamoa this week. t was a great opportunity and it was very valuable. We looked at a range of theories, the two that resonated with me was the problem-solving theory 'Cynefin' and Kotters 8 Steps to change. I have included my key learnings/notes from the day below....

The three critical imperatives: 

• create great leaders
• stop boring students 
• drive change from the middle out rather than the top down.

“Your personal qualities greatly influence your professional identity.”

Social and emotional skills based on your experiences and that enables to inspire

Create unity where there is discord

Cynefin

Kotter's 8 steps for change

Leadership Lessons from the Dancing Guy

How a movement is created

No movement without the first follower courageously follow and show others how to follow

Some things to try….

Slack	OneDrive	Zoom	Flipgrid
Google Plus	Google Drive	Skype	Doodle
Yammer	Trello	Wix	Flask
Google Classroom	TodaysMeet	Weebly	TitanPad
Microsoft Classroom	Google Hangouts	Google Sites	Bubbl.us

Junior Practical

Today was one of those times where my lesson evolved because of how much my students were loving a particular activity we were doing. I have been developing my year 8s skills for rhythm reading and have them clapping rhythms as they read them off sheets of rhythms that I keep in the classroom. They were enjoying it so much that we continued on this tact into composition. The students wrote their own rhythms using the note values and then practiced them in groups ready to perform them to the class. I was surprised at how excited they were and how focused they were to practice their rhythm and get it correct it was awesome, I was glad I let the lesson naturally develop and encouraged them to be creative with their rhythm reading and writing!

Celebrating Success

Term 2 is always a busy term at school with seniors starting to realise they don't have a lot of time left and lots of different events and competitions on. This term I was in charge of organising our schools 'Celebrating Success' Evening. This is a chance for students to share their talents with their whanau and the wider community. We run an hour long performance and then our hospitality students serve nibbles and dessert to our guests. All in all it was a great evening, we had a huge turn out of family coming to support and our students really did us proud. My senior students had organised a thank you present for me for organising the event and some one snapped a pic of me going up to get it.

The same week we had our annual haka comp where our four hapu stand face to face and have a chance to represent their hapu and haka off against each other. I was very proud of my hapu especially the two year 7 boys who led our haka it definitely gave a difference it was an awesome event