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Building Learning Capacity with Tony Ryan at Waipuna 29 January
Thanks to all of those that
attended Friday’s uplifting, mind provoking conference at Waipuna hosted by the
awesome Tony Ryan. Being a newbie to the Learning Network NZ
team, this was my first event to participate in and what a pleasure it
was. Not only hearing Tony talk with
such passion but seeing everyone in attendance engaged and inspired.
Listening to Tony, commanded engagement and
interactivity amongst your peers, whereby I could see all those attending becoming
more and more inspired and animated as the day transpired.
Tony raised questions to
shift our thinking. How can we embrace
technology and identify “what is worthwhile”?
What technology can assist with minimising the impact on our time and
maximise a holistic shift within the school environment whereby you as a
teacher can successfully embrace pedagogy (*child based learning) and andragogy
(*adult based learning) continuously, resulting in injecting enthusiasm,
participation and the art of GREAT learning
within your school.
Tony reviewed ways in which
you can audit current demands being placed on you, resulting in creating more learning time by simply de-cluttering and
simplifying what you need to do from
what you could do “if only you had
more time”?
The energy within the breaks stimulated
me to review what influenced some Principals to bring their entire team to
this teacher’s only day and if any of their prior perceptions of what to expect
were met/exceeded?
This is some of the feedback
collated about this day from new teachers embarking on their teacher journey,
through to experienced teachers and some Principals. Inspired learning springs to
mind!
Key insights/reminders gained from a new teachers point of view embarking on a new career included:-
Came along to the day with no expectations and was
blown away with how helpful attending the teacher’s only day was due to:-
· Gaining tools to assist
her with not getting overwhelmed when in the classroom environment
- Gaining useful mapping tools to enable prioritising
- Reiteration of why you became a teacher in the first place
- Inspiring creativity to the way in which you approach your classroom
Principals perspectives included:
Bringing the entire teaching
team along to the teacher’s only day was a twofold
gain.
One because it is a GREAT
approach to a new year, collectively the teaching team can bond by starting the
New Year inspired and become focussed for the year ahead on their role as connected, confidant continuous lifelong learners
also.
“As life gets
busy it becomes easy in teacher mode to forget about YOUR role as a learner!”
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“Tony engages
teachers as adult learners”
The second year running they
have brought their entire teaching team to kick start the new teaching year
with mindfulness around focusing on
you as a teacher’s adult learning as
much as the children in your class learning and looking after each other as a
team.
Other teacher’s feedback/out takes:
“Awesome way to start a year, gained above and beyond
what was expected by Tony’s inspiration and teachings. Gives staff the opportunity to re-invent how
they approach their environment and spark innovation within the classroom. Huge plus to attending is gaining some gratefulness
tools to share with the kids.”
“We came last
year and are still talking about and quoting outtakes.”
“Expectation
of high quality course has not been disappointing”. I have had an excited buzz all day.
"We have
gained inspiration for the year and had a great time as a team bonding!"
"Tony made you
think & question beyond what you are doing and celebrating that everyone is
doing a good job too!"
Tony is back in July as part of a two day Conference exploring tools to sustain innovative thinking within your classroom environment. Try to come along to hear Tony, along with other successful key presenters on a range of topics that will support engaging learners.
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