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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

Other stuff
 * First term a lot of explicit teaching
 * Goal folders:
 * Bluearth plan worked
 * Maths planning
 * Speakers Chair worked
 * Assessment schedule


 * Laptop Program**
 * **Clarification about laptop expectations/ policy booklet**
 * **Whole seminar discussions about use of laptop.**
 * **Student voice: committees around different 'things' like laptop program, playground committee... Committee time in place of a homebase time is an idea**
 * Reinforce with tasks: cybersmart
 * All students/LAs being informed about responsibilities
 * All knowing the policy booklet
 * LLL
 * 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**
 * **20 minute time**
 * **use French time for own Google Doc time**
 * **proforma works**
 * **look at options for parents to view Google Doc re. student conferences**
 * **option to use doc but not form**
 * **more sharing with parents re. progress**
 * **PSG and LA meeting could be combined. Longer time**
 * **Knowing how to give feedback. Link this to action research project with PLTs.**
 * **Verbal feedback: recording and allowing students different ways to get feedback.**
 * **Goal setting: setting is working but unsure if the reflecting is happening to support further learning.**
 * **Students should also be reflecting on their past goals and saying what actions they've made to improve or maintain that goal.**
 * **Success criteria: what does it look like? PLTs and action research**
 * **Opportunities for students to do their own**
 * **Google Doc sharing of daily things/students**
 * 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
 * Question prompts: think about what you want to ask
 * 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**
 * **Monday Tuesday Wednesday**
 * **Literacy groups/focus group works well.**
 * **Tasks on livebinder works well**
 * **Make sure all tasks are on a Livebinder.... good for parents**
 * **More flexible timing of seminars: more student choice**
 * **Happy with balance of explicit and independent learning.**
 * home base time: four mornings a week 9:30 to 10:00
 * could be literacy/numeracy/inquiry focus
 * Floor time**
 * LAs tending to stay in homebase
 * kids knowing who is on floor
 * just in time teaching
 * more individualised
 * explicit teaching
 * more individualised
 * explicit teaching


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

__**Learning Advisor meetings**__
 * **first two week so term (except first term) set aside**
 * **parents continue to be committed**
 * **option to come during the day**
 * **Term 1 and 3 student reflection: possibility that report isn't done in those terms but done as student led Keynotes.**
 * **This forces student voice. Students sharing technology**
 * **Need to look at LA form. Fill in for whole year.**


 * 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

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