Use inquiry, collaborative problem solving and professional learning to improve professional capability to impact on the learning and achievement of all learners.
Chosen evidence: Literacy and etap Leadership overview
One piece of evidence that I feel strongly relates to one of the Standards is my leadership overview. This year I have taken up a leadership role of leading literacy, etap and sharing my findings and data to the staff and BOT. I was required to prepare for staff meetings and lead teachers through PACT, PAT, Writing AsTtle and assist where needed when they needed help with any of these areas. From being a leader around this area for the 3 terms I have become more confident in front of the staff and I believe because our staff is so approachable and positive this has made presenting and teaching/learning with them easier for me.
I found that I have learnt a great deal from having this leadership role as many of the areas like PACT, PAT and AsTTle I needed to teach myself and find ways around problems that arise. One instance was when I was required to transfer the data from etap on AsTtle. I really had no idea where to start and my first instinct was to ring Elise and get her to tell me or even do it for me. But I decided that as it was now my role, I stepped up and began to problem solve around this. Etap communications I have realised are very fast at replying to any questions and instantly helped me solve this dilemma.
Literacy data has been very exciting to plot and track as I have gone in depth with what different aspects are required and this has made my teaching more meaningful. I found it very interesting to be able to track our target students and look at their progress throughout the year.
Along with teaching and being in charge of literacy I also decided to take up a Mindlab course around digital and collaborative learning. Initially I really enjoyed this course as it was about ICT and different ways of using it in your teaching. But because of the high workload a teacher has, I was ready to complete this course as it was no longer something that I enjoyed. Although I did not feel like I enjoyed it as much as others I still do feel that I learnt a great deal from it. Learning different styles of leadership and collaboration also helped when I was required to present data to the staff.
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