Lane Clarke

11/10/12
Session with Lane Clarke at the Massey Rugby Institute

Learning outcomes:

• Deepen knowledge, and understanding of the 'big picture'.
• Identify the developmental sequence of pedagogical changes.
• Deepen your knowledge, understanding of the foundational tools of a real thinking classroom.
• Explore the way in which we plan inquiry.

Lane's wildly important goal is to:

Engage, Enable, empower, 

What is my wildly important goal?

The idea of think!nk is to teach them how to learn.

differentiate between the tools children use. Each child is different and they might prefer to use different tools to express their learning after they have internalised new learning.

Organisers are for managing information

Frameworks are for managing your self or team

Planners are for organising so you can produce or act

why am i using this tool? 

How is this tool enhancing their learning in a way that another tool(s) can't?

Stop - Start - Stay

organiser that gets students to evaluate:

what, about what i have done needs to stop, What needs to start, What needs to stay

Leadership with Nadia follow-up from second session.

This is the follow-up from the session with Nadia that I missed due to illness

T2 Wk4 2012 Meeting with Dinah

Triple venn diagram with knowledge, strategy, and strand overlapping with the way maths is taught today.

Game with die. Children in teams roll two die twice to start. you will have a gap between the two sums of die. the teams then take turns to make the largest number they can below the top number. keep going down until one team cannot go on

You can make a number/add/sub question into a strand and thinking task by adding units to it.

Maths Golf, estimates

Anne Giles Tod after lunch

Giving feedback to writing







The example prompt is extremely successful to all writers especially strugglers. You can do this at the bottom of the child's page to show the sorts of things you are looking for.

Location:Slacks Rd,Palmerston North,New Zealand

Feedback prompts from Anne Giles







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Tod with Anne Giles

Anne Giles

Introduce your buddy (nextdoor neighbor)
Jared 4th year at Riverdale is entering his second year with a 5/6 class after teaching in the middles, good dude, better than me at golf
Very reflective in terms of his students and online activities, he spends hours filtering through the rubbish online to find good learning opportunities for his students. Baby only 8 weeks away.

What do you think would be the best way to do this?
-in terms of setting up books
-routines
-must does and must don'ts

The power of words (find this and put it on blog) about a blind man.
YouTube video
Clip is about how words can affect how we feel, react, see, and relate to others.

What word am I taking into the year, my word/theme.
Evolve (evolution)




If you don't know where you are going, any old road will do.


Analogy of a learning journey
Along the way you have an invisible backpack on your back

B= Blessings- things I'm grateful for.

A= Achievements- things I'm proud of.

G=Goals- Things I'm aiming for.

There can be an S for strategy.
If you write your goal down you have a 50% chance of achieving it.
If you read that goal every day you have a 95% chance of achieving it.

Model disappointment with your kids and model the strategies with your kids to still achieve those goals after the disappointment.

Book
The success principals by Jack Canfield.

Talking partners/learning partners






-More than think pair share.
-Powerful tool for self and peer assessment.
-Aims to increase the amount of student voice in the classroom.
-Enables meta cognitive discussion.
-Spending time on setting this up is critical to success.

Coaching buddies for with your learning buddies to help in different areas
Swimming, passing skills, etc.

Conflict resolution
Model to use with class to solve problems.



Problem/issue
What is the problem?

Reasons
Why do we have this problem/how did we get here?

Possibilities
What are some possible solutions?

Actions
What will we do?

Location:Slacks Rd,Palmerston North,New Zealand

Building a positive classroom environment