Staff Meeting with Mrs Thomas

We had a great meeting yesterday with Jan. It was a good chance for the staff to go through the "Hats" and say how things were going. Our Junior teachers will benefit from a visit in Term 4 to Coley Street to see how they cope. We had a really useful round the table discussion.
We also went through various other things such as our model and the version 2 we have created. We also spoke about the Thinking Toolbox we had developed and how this is very much a starting point for us. We are looking forward to Michael Pohl's talk in a couple of weeks as well as ULEARN to firm up a few thoughts and ideas.
Assessment was something we are still coming to grips with and it was good to discuss this and how we will develop a matrix that will make this aspect easier as well as a shared understanding.
We also need to develop something for tracking and we liked Coley's MUSAC approach: nice and easy and very useful.
We have a long way to go but with Jan we sorted out some next steps. They do not look too onerous as long as we take them slowly. Jan was a real gem and we all appreciated the feedback we got from her and are excited about Inquiry and its future at Opiki School.