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=A day to discuss the Senior Learning Centre as a learning community and personalizing learning for students in the Senior Learning Centre.=

//‘Teaching the child, not the curriculum’//

Professional Reading based on learning communities
Please read these three articles before next Thursday. They're short!

Discipline is the problem: Not the solution []

“Well, Duh!” -- Ten Obvious Truths That We Shouldn’t Be Ignoring []

Almost there, but not quite []

Each member of the group reads these articles before meeting and responds individually by posting a two column written response on this wiki. Column 1 - response to the text Column 2 - note what was specifically stated in the text Each group member to share chosen entries from their notes. No discussion at this point. __**[|Response Google Doc]**__ Discussion about our reflections and the Senior Learning Centre.

Overall question - “How do we want the Senior Learning Centre to look, feel and sound like?”
Senior Learning Centre as a learning community.... Complete Y chart together

Revisit the vision
Discuss aspects of the vision

Reflection on how things are going based on

 * Our own thoughts, vision...
 * [|Student Feedback]
 * Parent comments (generally)

=Discuss our understandings, goals and expectations around the following activities= //Teachers benefit when they can see students' thinking because misconceptions, prior knowledge, reasoning ability, and degrees of understanding are more likely to be uncovered.// [|Visible Thinking] > DEET organisers
 * Tasks**
 * Focus on thinking tools
 * Visible Thinking (book and website)
 * [|Exploratree Thinking Guides]
 * Authentic Audiences and blogs
 * Lots of hands on
 * Start student mapping own progress (Vels)
 * Take WALTS step further by stating 'why?' we are learning something
 * Personalizing tasks
 * Choice of tasks
 * Deliver tasks in a variety of ways
 * Not locked into the fortnight
 * Richer tasks that go for a length of time
 * Live binder: easy to navigate
 * Challenging tasks
 * Parent friendly
 * student initiated tasks
 * Live binders for different curric areas


 * Laptop Program**
 * Reinforce with tasks: cybersmart
 * All students/LAs being informed about responsibilities
 * All knowing the policy booklet
 * LLL
 * Remove laptop take home form
 * Parent workshops solely for them
 * Continue Learning Centre Facebook
 * Backing up work: timetable first and then do from home when capable or more confident with process
 * What happens when they breach contract? Same as making any mistakes
 * Student Conferences**
 * inviting parents to student conference as first LA meeting
 * half hour works
 * some students require weekly meetings
 * PSG?
 * Question prompts: think about what you want to ask
 * Goal setting
 * Goal setting


 * Seminars: Purpose? Time?**
 * back to back seminars to allow flexibility
 * need to change sign up so that it's more thoughtful
 * online seminars
 * negotiable / non negotiable
 * student initiated seminars


 * Explicit teaching times**
 * home base time: four mornings a week 9:30 to 10:00
 * could be literacy/numeracy/inquiry focus
 * Floor time**
 * kids knowing who is on floor
 * just in time teaching
 * more individualised
 * explicit teaching


 * Reporting and Assessment**
 * Consider report with the LA meeting
 * Google doc shared with parent re. assessment
 * Personalise the report
 * Collecting data at the start of the year


 * Learning Advisor meetings**
 * termly
 * parents are committed
 * parents invited to LA meetings/student conference in meeting rooms
 * review the template
 * email home the template
 * template straight into student Dropbox and Senior Planning


 * Teacher Conferences**
 * term based
 * goals and reflection are valuable
 * place for reflecting on goals
 * after LAs (mid term)

Is there anything of value that we don't do now that we should be finding a way to do?
 * Edmodo
 * iPod touches
 * Symbaloo
 * Podcasting iTunes
 * Serial reading: parents, grandparents, LAs to read

[|PbyP : Personalisation by Pieces] Read, sign up for free trial and explore by planning day [|MTS online] Sign up for free trial and explore by planning day [|Maths 300]
 * Subscriptions and resources**

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