Reflections on leading, teaching and learning. Demonstrate commitment to tangata whenuatanga and bicultural practice in NZ. Use critical inquiry, collaborative problem solving and professional learning to improve preofessional capability to impact on the learning and achievement of all learners. Establish and maintain professional relationahips and behaviours focussed on the learning and well-being of each learner.

Re-thinking the crafting of Essential Agreements. One area where we agreed to start was drafting essential agreement.

A circular argument is one in which the conclusion is essentially the same thing as the step or steps which go beforehand. In other words, the conclusion is already part of the preceding argument.

The thoughts of an Australian educator living and breathing teaching and learning. This blog post has been a long time coming.

Friday, August 14, 2015. Teaching practice and Learning opportunities. I was fortunate enough to visit yet another school, leading the way around MLP. One thing that stood out was how students were able to talk about their learning. That was a good indicator that students own their learning. I could see that students enjoy sharing and collaborating with others. Students should evaluate their own learning to be able to tell if they are making progress.

You, me and the teacher. I currently am employed at Hobsonville Point Primary School where I team teach a learning common of Year 4-6 children. Previously, I spent 3 years teaching at Henderson North School with a class of Year 5-6 students. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Collaborative teaching can be a scary journey! My thoughts were leaning towards using some YouTube videos and hands on activities such as building a water clock. I better be ready for the answers! As Ju.

About Puddle the Travelling Pig. Quick trip to Wellington with Eliza. 60th Anniversary of Ed and Tenzing summiting Everest. Today we dressed up at HFS to remember the conquering of Everest by Tenzing and Sir Ed. Puddle poses for a photo as does the rest of Room 6.