Teaching Council Position

Earlier in the year I applied for a position with the NZ Teachers Council, and was fortunate enough to win an interview:

Teaching Council Interview

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Kia ora Natalie,

Thank you for your time on the phone regarding the ITE Panel member position for the Teaching Council of Aotearoa New Zealand.

I can confirm your phone interview details are as follows:

Time:    9:40 – 10:10am

Date:     Monday 22 July

Panel:   Angela Yeoman, Tara Taylor- Jorgensen, Michael Absolom

The interview panel will call you on 0211367751.

This will be a behavioural based interview which will take approximate 25-30 minutes .  I have attached the position description for your reference.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Ngā mihi,

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Phone interview went well. I enjoyed being able to share about my passion in ILE and the ITE Programme, and how I wish to be part of the panel that helps to develop, improve and sustain Teacher Training in NZ. Next stage for ITE Programme Approval Panels Inbox x panelrecruitment Tue, Aug 6, 2:52 PM (8 days ago) to me Tēnā koe Teaching Council’s Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme approval and review panels Thank you for making the time to be interviewed for the role of ITE Programme Approval and Review panellist. The recruiting team was impressed with your skills, experiences and demonstrable ability to work as part of a team. We are now working through the final stages of the decision-making process and we expect to send out confirmation notifications on 23 August. For your information, we will be offering panel training on either Friday 30 August or Friday 6 September, so please keep at least one of these dates free if possible. The new ITE Requirements are transformational and so this is an exciting time to be involved in approving teacher training programmes. The Council appreciates the time and effort you have committed, to date, to this process. If you have any queries please contact either myself or Hannah Molloy on hannah.molloy@teachingcouncil.nz or on 04 470 9090. Hei konā mai Matt Russell PO Box 5326, Wellington 6140 l 80 Boulcott Street, Wellington 6011, New Zealand matthew.russell@teachingcouncil.nz www.teachingcouncil.nz facebook l linkedin l twitter

New Appointment for 2020

Upon applying for a Deputy Principal position at Merrilands School, I won the job!
Very exciting to be involved the Merrilands Schools change in vision and practice and to be part of the leadership team to implement this.

I will finish out the year at Kaimata, being Acting Principal in Term 4, moving to Merrilands in the new year.

Link to Letter of Appointment

Spotlight on Learning

In the Term 2 Holidays, Andy McFarlane from ETap came and spent a day with our staff looking and learning about how to use Spotlight as a learning, teaching and assessment tool.
We have been looking into what digital platforms best suit our pedagogy and practice at Kaimata, and what ETap had to offer sounded very intriguing and we were keen to learn more about the Spotlight tool.

We quickly discovered that Spotlight was the missing link in our collaborative teaching and planning and would be an amazing tool to use for assessment also.
Andy ran a great session, and we all learned at the same pace, so no one missed anything. Tanz, Jen and I decided that we will use Spotlight for our teaching, planning and assessment from Day One, Term 3. We loaded our groups and modelling books to the platform, ready to go!
We also made the decision that we will not be having the students use Spotlight, as they are still getting used to signing in and out of Google Docs! This would be too much for them, and the tools Spotlight offers doesn't suit our kids digitally...YET.

Link to staff notes on Spotlight training

SO WHAT? (Week 2, Term 3)
Spotlight has been a great tool. We have gotten rid of using Google Sheet as a planner, now have digital modelling books and have timetabled in our first assessment for the term to happen next week! It is working well having all of our data and timetables, planning etc...in one place. I believe we will continue to grow our digital fluency in Spotlight more and more. It has already had a positive impact on our planning and teaching. I am looking forward to seeing how our end of year reporting will look!