PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW:

2015:

Marg Thorsborne - Restorative Facilliation Skills.

20 hour course on Restorative Conversations. This focussed on the small, everyday conversations for managing minor behaviours, right through to more complex and challenging situations.

PB4L – Coach for this for 2015

PB4L was one of our major focuses for 2015 and I am currently the leader for this in the school. Have been to 4 Coach and Team Leader workshops as well as 3 team planning days. I have just recently got back from the 2 day PB4L conference where behaviour expert George Sugai was one of the guest speakers.

First Aide Course 27/1/15

1 day course

NPPA Principals Conference

Heading to this 3^rd and 4^th September.

ALIM – Accelerating Learning in Mathematics

As Director of Mathematics for 2015, I have been involved in the PD surrounding this which included workshops in Wellington and after school workshops with other schools in our group.

Tessa Gray Teacher Only Day

Professional Learning Support: Facilitation of virtual webinar around strategies for Digital Citizenship as learners. This was help at SPS

2014:

EduTECH 2014:

I had the privilege to go to this conference in Brisbane in 2014. EduTECH is the Southern Hemisphere’s largest education congress with a focus on technology in Education. Guest speakers included Sugata Mitra, Ian Jukes and world famous educational thinker Sir Ken Robinson.

Aspiring Principals 2014:

For 2014, I was involved in the National Aspiring Principals Programme. This was a year-long programme where we had to form a leadership inquiry, critique a colleague and present to our board and NAPP class on the effectiveness of this programme. In this programme, there was a Hui in Auckland with a number of guest speakers on Leadership. At these classes, there were different focuses at each Class e.g. Budgeting, Registration, Disciplinary Procedures, Acts of leadership etc. We also had to keep an online Journal of our Leadership and respond to questions and situations leaders will find themselves in. 

Heather Bell:

Heather has been working at Stratford Primary School on devices (iPads) and how to use these to enhance education outcomes for students and collecting evidence.

Karen Boyes:

Focuses on the Habits of the mind. I have had Karen model in my classroom and attended 4 PD sessions of hers over the last 3 years. She is very challenging and thought provoking.

Andrea Harding

E-asttle writing and Self-Regulation of learners. Andrea was in our school for 2 years providing Professional Development around these two areas which are a strength of hers.

Jonathon Black

Jonathon Black spent 8 years as a psychologist with the NZ police focusing on negotiation, conflict management and resilience in the workplace. He has used these experiences to pass onto other leaders who would need skills similar to this and was interesting hearing his thoughts on ‘difficult conversations’.

Joseph Driesen

Attended a course in Palmerston North on 7 Ways to improve boys education.  Very beneficial and because of this, it was followed up by Joseph presenting at a call back day for our staff.

2013:

ICOT

International Conference on Thinking held in Wellington over 3 days. Guest speakers included Mai Chen – legal expert, Kerry Spackman, and World renowned Dr Edward De Bono.

New Plymouth Principal’s Association Conference

Sam Cawthorn was the main guest speaker at this conference. He has published books including Bounce Forward and spreads many messages to leaders throughout the world.

Gail Loane

Don’t bore the boys was the focus of her presentation at a NITS cluster TOD.

Murray Gadd

Murray had been giving Stratford Primary School professional development in writing and reading for over 7 years. He is a very well respected educator and has a lot of ideas to share about how to raise student achievement in literacy.

Science PLD – Mary Loveless

Stratford Primary worked with Mary Loveless from Waikato University in the area of Science for 2013. She gave all staff ideas on how to incorporate Science into the classroom in everyday learning and gave leaders ideas how to make this all possible and include in annual plans.

Jasmine Walker –Reading Recovery

Jasmine is the reading recovery facilitator in Taranaki and gave all staff PD in how to use running records assessment to inform next steps in teaching reading.

Other Courses of Note:

-           - Novopay Training – An administrator of Stratford Primary School’s pay system including taking part in the training that has taken place.

-           - Education Law – one day course in wellington

-           - Teaching Learners with the digital brain in mind.

-          -  Swimsafe NZ PD through Cecilie Elliot

-          -  Peer Mediaiton development day



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