Professional+Readings


 * Professional Readings **

Please feel free to add anything that you think may be of interest or use!
Mandy's Recommendation - "I highly recommend registering and using the collection of resources on netsafe's latest site - Learn, Guide, Protect. Lots of really good readings here. I have started up a specific collection for the Kura Iwa Cluster. @http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/2515/5947 || The influences of families/whanau and communities are identified as key levers for high quality outcomes for diverse children. Outcomes include both social and academic achievement. The focus is on children from early childhood through to the end of secondary schooling. This best evidence synthesis, based on a wide range of New Zealand data (and cautiously informed by a number of overseas studies), has produced findings which have been summarised into four categories. These are family attributes, family processes, community factors, and centre/school, family and community partnerships. The findings are relatively complex. They endeavour to identify what applies to whom and in what circumstances. ||
 * ** Readings .................................................................................................................** || ** Synopsis ** ||
 * ** Alton-Lee, A. ** (2003). // Quality Teaching for Diverse Students in Schooling: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES) //. Report from the Medium Term Strategy Policy Division. Wellington: Ministry of Education. Also available at: @http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/series/2515/5959 ||  ||
 * The Complexity of Community and Family Influences on Children's Achievement in New Zealand: Best Evidence Synthesis Iteration (BES)
 * E-Learning 2.0 Downes, Stephen (2006) E-Learning 2.0. Retrieved August 2, 2007 from the World Wide Web  || "E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It's the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.

And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0." || Please take the time to upload your own readings if you have ones of value to anyone in the cluster.
 * Article from Sydney Morning Herald - as sited on netsafe.org.nz - Learn, Guide, Protect || This article from the Sydney Morning Herald provides a great starting point for discussions around creating digital citizens. Should we be creating Miguel Ghulin style "walled gardens" for our students or helping them to develop the appropriate skills to harness the power of the Internet and not be enslaved by it, http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/4817298/Facebook-fear-for-schoolkids ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Authentic+Uses+of+Technology.doc"]] [|Authentic Uses of Technology.doc] || A list of the key features in authentic ICT use in schools ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Digital+Age+Learning+01.doc"]] [|Digital Age Learning 01.doc] || A reading on how Technology can influence learning ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Equity.doc"]] [|Equity.doc] || How technology should be used effectively and be available to all ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/How+Will+You+Use+Tec%2355AF17.doc"]] [|How Will You Use Tec#55AF17.doc] || How will you use technology to support your schools' vision for learning? ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Meaningful%2C+Engaged+Learning.doc"]] [|Meaningful, Engaged Learning.doc] || Indicators of meaningful, engaged learning in your school ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Training+Teachers+for+Using+Technology.doc"]] [|Training Teachers for Using Technology.doc] || Effectively integrating technology into teacher's classrooms ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Managing+Complex+Change.pdf"]] [|Managing Complex Change.pdf] || The five components of complex change ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Peter+senge-learning+organization.pdf"]] [|Peter senge-learning organization.pdf] || The five disciplines seen as central to learning organizations and some issues and questions concerning the theory and practice of learning organizations. By Peter Senge ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Leadership+for+Change.pdf"]] [|Leadership for Change.pdf] || Preparing students for the 21st Century and the change needed for that to happen ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Leadership+Dimensions.pdf"]] [|Leadership Dimensions.pdf] || Leadership Dimensions Derived from 11 Studies of Effects of Leadership on Student Outcomes ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Web_2.0_Projects.pdf"]] [|Web_2.0_Projects.pdf] || Projects for your classroom that may help effectively integrate ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Web+2.0+Tools+in+the+Reading+Classroom.pdf"]] [|Web 2.0 Tools in the Reading Classroom.pdf] || Great web tools for your Literacy programme ||
 * [[image:http://c1.wikicdn.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png width="32" height="32" link="http://porthills.wikispaces.com/file/view/Why+should+educators+be+using+web+2.doc"]] [|Why should educators be using web 2.doc] || Need some convincing? Read on. ||
 * [[image:porthills/2009-07-02_1132.png width="165" height="47" align="left" caption="2009-07-02_1132.png"]] .................................................................................................. || [|iLearn Magazine: An online resource devoted to the best way to incorporate Mac technology into the classroom. Really awesome!] ||


 * //Kiwi Leadership for Principals//**


 * //Teaching Professional Learning and Development, by Helen Timperley//**


 * //School Leadership and Student Outcomes: Identifying What Works and Why, Professor Vivienne Robinson//**


 * //Managing for Success/Maori Education Strategy//**

media type="custom" key="10663464"