Ako Staff Meeting 2020

It was great to get the first staff meeting of the year completed early in the term while teachers are still fresh and motivated from the holidays. After the very long hot days, we are having here in Northland it was very nice to have the airconditioned library at Kaitaia Intermediate school. Not many of the staff were familiar with the SAMR model so it was great to give the teachers time to learn about it and try to link it to their current work. Having to sit with teachers of the same age level it was great to see lots of sharing of ideas, resources, and emails. I also had an attempt of including a mana potential assessment into the workshop. I feel we are still talking too much and need more teacher conversations, sharing, and activities and less of our facilitator's voice.