Workshops to support Overall Teacher Judgments

English-medium

Workshops and webinars focusing on supporting English-medium teachers’ moderation practices will be available through the Consortium for Professional Learning (CPL) from 7 August. This will be the second series of English-medium workshops and builds on the first series held earlier this year. More than 1400 teachers attended the first series, and many commented favourably on the practical nature of the workshops and valued the opportunity to develop shared understandings through dialogue with other teachers. One teacher described the workshop as “a great mix of talk and actions”.

The main focus for this second series will be on effective moderation practices, both within schools and between schools, and promoting the use of professional talk as a key part of moderation. They will also introduce frameworks that have been developed by curriculum experts, with input from teachers, which are proving to be a useful tool.

The workshops will include practical activities to assist teachers to develop and reinforce their moderation practices as they make their Overall Teacher Judgments (OTJs).

The workshops ‘unpack’ the learning progressions signposted by the standards and provide information for teachers about what they should be noticing about what students know and can do across reading, writing, and mathematics.

Teachers will have the opportunity to engage in moderation discussions with other teachers and to use evidence gathered from students in their class to inform the moderation discussion in the workshops.

Comprehensive online support will be available on the CPL website to enable schools to engage in follow-up activities.

Workshop venues, dates and further information

The second series of workshops is being held in all regions between 7 August and 18 September 2014. 

English-medium workshops – second series

Māori Medium

The first series of workshops for schools, Kura, and Māori Medium settings using Ngā Whanaketanga Rumaki Māori will be available through the consortium of Kia Ata Mai Educational Trust and the Institute of Professional Learning from July 2014. The workshops will focus on supporting teachers in Levels 1 and 2 Māori Medium settings to make overall teacher judgments (OTJs). A second series will follow in Term 4.

This first series will focus on:

• Theoretical understandings of aromatawai based on Rukuhia Rārangahia
• Theoretical understandings of OTJs and moderation processes
• Explanation of the role of OTJ for meeting class, school, and national purposes
• Practical in-school activities to develop moderation processes in one or more areas (i.e. pānui, tuhituhi, kōrero, and pāngarau)
• Exercises and approaches to analysing student information from kura data bases and from Te Waharoa Ararau a Motu
• Exercises and approaches towards collating student information for reporting from kura data bases and from Te Waharoa Ararau a Motu.

Following the workshops, online support for teachers will be available at: Maori-Medium-OTJ-Workshops(external link)

Workshop venues, dates and further information

For the dates and venues of workshop in your location, visit the Ministry’s website(external link)

For more information, contact: Cath Rau, Cath@kiaatamai.org tel: 021 420 666, or Hemi Rau, Hemi@kiaatamai.org, tel: 021 812 204