From the Principal
Gathering evidence and receiving feedback is one of the greatest gifts you can receive. We check our look in the mirror and make adjustments to our outfit, or not. Feedback, student performance data, peer observations, student surveys all provide us with information that we can use to reflect on our performance. It comes from all different places and regardless of whether we like what it says or not it gives a perspective that we may not have thought about. It allows us to open up lines of enquiry and look for areas of improvement.
It is that time of the year for our students to receive summative performance feedback. Their performance is data about how we are going also.
As we begin the reporting process please use the student surveys and student performance to reflect on your first semester. Use your learning area meetings to work with colleagues around whole learning area improvements. If you require support, please let your PC know to bring that to the leadership team.
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Principal
Staffing
Winter always puts pressure on staffing in schools. This year is no different. With reports coming up I really urge everyone to look after yourselves and find a balance between the pressures of our job and your home life. The long weekend is coming so please take some time for yourself.
Ongoing absences in the student services area will see Nghia Nguyen move into student services in a Head of Year (HOY) role from Monday 31 May. Nghia is being appointed out of the EOI that was run to originally fill that position. At this stage, he will be in this position until the end of Term 3.
The Deputy role will continue to be filled while Kelly is on leave. Firstly, by Adam and then by another PC.
With Trevor’s pending retirement and leave backfill in the Science learning area, the PC of Science has been advertised.
More restructuring will occur in student services as realignment of some of the roles in there have changed.
Instructional Framework
Serendipitously, we have been talking about reflection. This week’s Instructional framework component is about the reflection aspect of our framework.
Reflection
Students reflect by summarizing the content and assessing the level to which they have achieved the learning objective. Borton’s Development framework provides a great scaffold to help the students reflect.
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What? (Description and self-awareness) |
So What? (the analysis) |
Now What? (synthesis) |
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Often we do the “what?”. This is low-level reflection. We should move students to the “so what” and “now what” to bring their reflection to a deeper level.