Musselburgh+Milestone+5

Lead Teacher: Emma Barker Musselburgh Teachers have used the Kath Murdoch model extensively over the last 2 years in their classrooms. We have in this time continued to understand the stages and how best to use them at the different levels. We are now focusing on school wide assessment within inquiry learning. We have spent Term 1, 2008 sharing our experiences and results with other cluster members. We have opened our classroom doors to share with our parents and community as well as other teachers in the cluster. The lead teachers of the cluster also visited and toured the school on another occasion to view inquiry learning in action and talk with our students. The below websites demonstrate web 2.0 tools being used as a collaboration tool to also enhance Inquiry use in the classrooms. Other are being developed at present. Room 1 wiki http://room1musselburgh.wikispaces.com/ Room 6 blog http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=76583 Mussellinks wiki – for community use http://mussellinks.wikispaces.com/ I reported to BOT on May 19 2008 on development of ICT and Inquiry across the school and the impact this is having on teaching and learning. A copy of this report is available, I used graphic organisers to group information and share these, as these are tools we use regularly in the classroom. § Five out of seven full time classroom teachers have used web 2.0 tools to create a wiki or blog for their class. § One of these teachers is new to the contract this year. § Our principal has started a wiki with a reading group he takes 4 mornings a week. § All teachers have set goals each term for themselves personally and their class programmes. § All teachers have shared their inquiry programme and how ICT is integrated in the events mentioned in Goal 1. § Our lead teacher has run 3 blog sessions for cluster teachers and also presented at learning@school conference in Rotorua in February. § Our principal uses ICT tools to lead school community focus on learning and values (i-movie, keynote, tube tv) Our lead teacher spends a lot of one on one time with our teachers, helping them trouble shoot the little things that can hinder their ICT development. At weekly staff meetings the lead teachers spend 20-40 mins on ICT. This can include School Master training, useful websites, doing updates, examples of good practice, collaborative problem solving, etc. Our staff has worked together to plan for our inquiry units, this has included designing assessment rubrics for questioning and presentation. Musselburgh School has had a MoE assisted network up grade this year; we now have a faster more reliable digital network. In conjunction to this upgrade we have installed all classrooms with ceiling mounted data projectors. Musselburgh School has started in Term 2, 2008 using School Master to record attendance electronically. All classroom teachers and the school secretary are using the system. School Master is being used to record Six Year Nets, probes and numeracy data. Special teaching groups, discipline and pastoral info is also recorded. All teachers, principal and secretary can access personal details, emergency contacts and medical information on all students at Musselburgh School. Most staff are able to use the group feature of the software this is a focus for our next staff meeting.
 * Musselburgh School **** ’s **** Milestone Report #5, 21 May 2008 **
 * Goal 1: Pedagogy & Andragogy: Improved Effectiveness in Teaching and Learning **
 * Goal 2: Improve overall ICT PD programmes to enhance teaching and learning communities **
 * Goal 3: Sustainability of thinking and learning communities **
 * Goal 4: Improved effectiveness of administrative support for teaching and learning **