Video evaluation directions

Kia ora,

Below I have uploaded the short video of you taken as you interact with children within your room. For the purpose of teacher reg, can you please watch the video and comment on several areas of your practice that you liked or were pleased about. And then comment if there you were able to observe any practice that you would change next time or would like to work towards improving.

Self reflection through video is a great way to objectively view your own practice as others see you.
You may also like to get a colleague to watch the video and see if their reflections mirror or are different to your own.

thanks

Joann Radford

Dec Observation Video

Readings for your Perusal

Afternoon Sandy,

Below is a link that takes you to a cluster of readings on a web page called:
Teachers Work: growing through critical reflection and action.

Reading in '2011 - Volume Eight: Issue One that may be of interest to you include:

An-other Look at Assessment: Assessment in Learning KERRY EARL AND DAVID GILES
This article seeks to review understandings of educational assessment as revealed in the phrases teachers use (assessment of learning, assessment for learning and assessment as learning). We propose a reconsideration of what teachers might have taken for granted in these phrases and assessment practice. We suggest that along with assessment knowledge and skills, teachers need a way of ‘being in’ assessment ...
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/journal/volume8_issue1/earl.pdf


Professional Dialogue as Professional Learning ANNE GREY
This article discusses professional dialogue as an important aspect of professionalism for early childhood teachers. It draws on the experiences of four qualified early childhood teachers of one teaching team in an early childhood centre who engaged in extensive professional dialogue with each other. Dialogue focused on the values that underpinned and were reflected in their teaching practice. These values were discussed in order to explore the commonalities and differences in teaching philosophies amongst the team ...
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/journal/volume8_issue1/grey.pdf


Happy reading-
Joann

Meeting- December 2011

Kia Ora Sandy,
This week we met to once again look and evauate your Teacher Registration Process. As to date
you are well on the way to meeting the Teacher Registration process and having your Advice and Guidance programme completed in 2 years.

Points discussed are as follows:

• Please remember to provide a reflection or linking statement with all posts- this details how YOU as a professional teacher have altered your practice, reflected, or gained new knowldege due to an experience or event.
• You are reguarly posting blog entries- please keep this up- its great to see.
• Areas not yet covered by an entry are Dimensions 10, 18, and 22.
• Please reflect to the notes from the day for suggestions to those posts you have already completed- this is just to ensure that they are clear in meeting the goals and the YOU as a teacher is visable in post (especially as most Learning story entries are written for the child and show the childs learning- not yours.)
• Remeber we want to see authentic posts that show who YOU are- what makes YOU stand out from your colleagues, what makes YOU shine as a teacher.

Keep up the great work- I look forward to reading posts that allow SANDY to be identified.

Ka Kite

Joann