Today was our Travelwise Lead Teacher day held at the Trust Stadium in Henderson.
One of the most important aspects of these days is the opportunity to network with other Lead teachers from around Auckland and curate ideas that we can use back at Newmarket School.
A real highlight for me was seeing Christine Allen and Veronica Verschuur from Marist School. I worked with them many years ago.
Russell French designed the introductory session so that the information was front loaded using a QR code activity. We moved around the room scanning QR codes in order to locate correct information of facts asked. We could have also googled this information but the opportunity to try a digital activity was fun. Russell then shared with us the rest of the information via his presentation.
He then continued and introduced us to the work of Robert Cialdini and how to link this to our days learning.
- Reciprocity
- Commitment (and Consistency)
- Social Proof
- Liking
- Authority
- Scarcity
We moved around the stations of activities set up by the CTCs and we covered a lot of information in a variety of ways.
WOW www.atwowcalendar.co.nz . I was interested in seeing the WOW calendar set up as a way of children taking responsibility for data entry using the new online system.
The day was fabulous as it reminded me of what I still need to do at our school.
So here are my goals until the end of the year.
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Complete our time zone map and photograph hazards.
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Revisit our Walking School bus idea. Particularly as we are going through a rebuild and we don’t just have a hazard at the gate we have a Tsunami.
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Set up a Travelwise display board. At this stage I have no idea where to place it as we are going through a rebuild. Maybe I will create a digital display and resurrect our Travelwise pages on our school Enviro wiki and revamp that.
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I really liked the idea about surveying our parents and identify where they drop our children off so will create a google form for that.
After lunch, I presented our school’s trial with the Tracksafe resource framed using SOLO Taxonomy. My pechakucha ended up being presented eight times so by the end of the afternoon I was hoarse. However I was excited as I could see where Virginia Kung and I need to improve on for our Ulearn presentation when we share how we have used the resource at Newmarket School.
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