Teachers @ Work Conference

Mangere Bridge ICT lead teachers Don and Luisa, held a staff meeting to share their discoveries from the Teachers @ Work conference in Melbourne in May. The ICT team used that staff meeting as an opportunity to share the thinkers tools progression developed from our last ICTPD day with Darlene. They also introduced the staff to thinker’s keys as another tools to use and reviewed De Bono’s 6 thinking hats.

Integrating ICT into Teachers' professional development goals

Teachers’ individualised ICT goals are linked to the appraisal process. In order to meet appraisal standards each teacher has to show how their ICT goal has been worked on or achieved and how it has enhanced students’ learning.

Thinking hats: Debono skills are integrated within the Mangere Bridge school wide plan. These are displayed in the classrooms and teachers use them in a variety of ways as attention directing devices which focuses children’s attention. E.g. during discussion, when problem solving, brainstorming and story planning.

Parent Evening @ Mangere Bridge

The purpose of the parent evening was to showcase the teachers' professional development in ICT and Assessment. Staff put a lot of work into preparation integrating a variety of ICT tools. The evening was well publicised and extremely well attended. Feed back from families who attended was very positive! Requests were made to repeat the evening over two evenings. The children at Mangere Bridge are very lucky to have such a dedicated team of teachers working for them!