Bayfield Teachers

Tuesday the 26th of June The Bayfield Digi Digest #3 Introducing....... Kia Takatū ā-Matihiko - the National Digital Readiness programme launched last Friday by the Ministry of Education. Developed to ensure teachers and kaiako are ready to implement the new digital technologies content. Including experts and resources from CORE Education, Open Polytechnic and Canterbury Uni, online toolkits and videos to help us gain more confidence in delivering new curriculum content.  We encourage you to sign in and have a look around the site. There are heaps of great ideas to use in your learning spaces, particularly with next terms science/digital inquiry in mind! An example of which is this cool Pixel Value Interactive which explains the colour behind pixels.  Pixel Interactive    RGB Mixer The programme is inspired by the legend of Māui, his kuia Mahuika, and how the source of fire was discovered. Māui was curious, brave, determined and had a great desi...

Hi all, We met Ned our Across School Teacher this week. She has been a classroom teacher in the Westmere community for a very long time and seems very enthusiastic about this new position and working with us. Student Voice Next Friday we would love to get some student voice around writing and agency from the kids. We are hoping that you are able to choose six kids from your space to answer some questions from either Annette or myself. A mixed range of abilities would be good. Please let us know a couple of times that would work best for you in your spaces and we will organise a timetable. Student Agency and Choice We are constantly hearing the word 'choice' in relation to student agency and we are beginning to realise that there are different levels of choice. Below is an illustration which shows the continuum of choice. The link to the full reading is  here . Can you think of any examples of your students being designers, advocates or entrepreneurs? We would love to he...

Following Holly & Nat's fantastic Digi Digest we've decided to update you with what we are doing within our WST role and any resources, readings, or ideas we find to share with you. We are both very excited to become your Within School Teachers, leading an inquiry into Writing and Student Agency at Bayfield. We have started to do a lot of research around the inquiry spiral and the link to this reading is a life changer. It's great to see many teams have changed the way the run their team meetings already, beginning to follow the inquiry spiral process. Don't feel like you have to fill in each stage of the spiral every week, you may be in one phase for weeks or even months. Our first steps as WST will be to 'scan' what is currently happening with student agency and writing at Bayfield. This will include: - Asking you to share with us your planning and how you are currently using assessment - Looking at the data - Gathering student voice - Looki...

Digi Digest 2 The Bayfield Digi Digest It has been a busy two weeks for the digital team. The highlight of which was the Interface Xpo last Thurs day where we picked up many ideas. We attended workshops on Onenote, coding, Adobe and spent an awesome hour with Mindlab recreating a plant moving in accordance with the sun using electrical engineering!  Digital Literacy Survey Thanks to those of you who have filled out the Digital Survey. We now have 99% percent response rate. We are impressed with your digital fluency and enthusiasm to learn. We have begun analysing the results and are planning to tailor our training sessions accordingly. (See Onenote training at this weeks Techie Brekkie below.) How comfortable are you using Onenote on a daily basis?                                                              ...