Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 9
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
A teacher recently said to me that Term 3 is the hardest term. Even after an 11-week Term 2, it still appears so. When I asked, “why do you think that is?”, we came up with a number of contributing factors. The one thing that I know for sure is that everyone is pushing through, to get to the break. On behalf of the school community, it is really appreciated, and I thank you.
The Southwest Japanese Festival was held on the weekend. It was good to see some of you there enjoying the fine weather and cultural events. It was a great relaxing event with something for everyone.
I have said this before and I really want to reiterate, our teaching practice is a skill, not an expression of who we are. That is, there are researched back teaching skills that are effective and some practice that is not effective. Like tennis, painting or public speaking, the mechanics of our practice can be observed, evaluated, and coached to be more effective. This is no more a slight on us, than a tennis player being coached to improved their backhand.
The school provides a coaching team in the school, a shared instructional framework, CMS and other professional learning to help you take the steps you want to improve your practice. I remind you that you can access TR time to have peer observations or coaching through the Instructional Leadership Team. Take advantage of that as much as you like.
Recently Almarie and Lewis have been completing their CAT 2 training and would relish the opportunity to conference staff on a CMS observation. Please see Adam about getting one of these two into your room. If there is more that we can do to assist you improve either your classroom practice or leadership practice, please see your relevant deputy principal.
Have a great week. Boorda
En Avant
We are looking for a replacement teacher for the WHS committee. WHS is a developing priority in all schools with the inclusion of psychological safety. If a whole school role is something that you are interested in, please drop me (Mike) a short email expressing your interest by Friday. Thank you.
This week is the continuation of OLNA, and the Year 12 CAE students will be doing their mock interviews. Please encourage the students who you are aware of that are involved in either of these.
You should have started your teaching sprints for the PIVOT implementation. If you haven’t done so yet, this may be a timely reminder.
R U OK? Any Day is coming up this Thursday, 12 September. The message this year is R U OK? Any Day because it recognises we need to check in with people on any day of the year. Why? Because the conversation could change a life. There are four simple steps to having the conversation:
1. Ask R U OK? (How are you travelling? You don’t seem yourself lately – want to talk about it?)
2. Listen (I’m here to listen if you want to talk more. Have you been feeling this way for a while?”)
3. Encourage Action (What do you think is a first step that would help you through this? Have you spoken to your doctor about this?
Do you know we have PeopleSense which is a free counselling service for the DOE?)
4. Check in (Just wanted to check in a see how you’re doing? Have things improved for you since we last spoke?)
It is usually the people who work with us every day who notice changes in our behaviour and who may be able to ask this question at a time when we really need it.
To help support these conversations, please check out the attached document.
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