Context of different audience members and their perspectives for your inquiry.

Create a reflective entry to discuss how you are addressing the context of different audiences (local, national and/or international) and their perspectives for your inquiry.

The audience that I will be focusing on in the blogpost is the parents of these children in our learning space. We also have other teachers at my school and in the wider community which involves our cluster. 

I think that the other teachers in our school and in the wider community including our cluster would be the most supportive and onboard of this digital change and they would be early adopters in any kind of change like this. They would be interested in these changes for my inquiry as it is part of the skills that the children need to be successful 21st-century learners.  Early Adopters get on board and would be there to support you through any part of the inquiry.

I feel until the parents have seen progress and change in their children's learning but they are still going to be the Laggards in this inquiry. The parent's perspectives and attitudes towards children using digital tools is an interesting topic. The feedback that I most commonly get is that the children will not be able to handwrite like they did. However, there is more behind their concerns. I think that they need to be well educated and at my school, the parents are always welcome to be involved in their child’s learning. The Senior Leadership Team always have seminars showing parents how to use a variety of digital tools and use our digital reporting system.

The theme that I will be looking at is:

The role of current and emerging technologies. This model shows that for your practice to change all these four strategies need to work together.

Linked strategies needed to support educational ICT innovations

When my colleague and I first started our Mindlab journey we had so much support and advice from our colleagues. Our colleagues and cluster members were accepting of our inquiry and were accepting and positive about us scaffolding digital learning for the children.  We knew that our Laggards (parents) would be the ones that would need extra support from us. We have been showing them through the process with their children and what would be involved throughout the inquiry.  We knew that the parents were apprehensive but we have shown them step by step how they can be part of their child’s digital journey. They just need to be open and willing to listen and learn alongside their child. 

References

Bolstad, R., Gilbert, J., McDowall, S., Bull, A., Boyd, S., & Hipkins, R. (2012). Supporting future-oriented learning and teaching — a New Zealand perspective. Report prepared for the Ministry of Education. Retrieved from https://www.educationcounts.govt.nz/publications/schooling/109306

Peer Mediation set up

Week 2:
The last few weeks have been used for setting up the Peer Mediation program in our school. 

Alongside the Assistant Principal we have researched and set the students up to run this successfully in the school. The students have had one session talking about expectations and have been given skills to help them solve simple problems that they may come across in the playground. The students are aware that with bigger problems they need to get a duty teacher. 

The students will be out in the playground as of today and we are hoping that we have some positive interactions with the younger children. 


Throughout the year the students will be given many opportunities to show their skills and earn peer mediation badges.This will be set up over the next term and introduced to the students over the course of the Peer Mediation sessions in class.

Week 3: Update.
The students have had one week out in the playground, I have had some really good feedback about individual students who are doing a great job.

The Deputy Principal ran a session on Restorative Practice and the steps to use to resolve the problem. The students responded well to this and will be able to hopefully this week will put it into practice in the playground. This session was great for my own learning as well and well and made me think how important the Restorative Practice is to our school. 

I have learnt that this process is a great way to make sure that all students get to have their say and that they are heard. When I am out on duty now I will have more confidence using this process and this re cap was just what I needed.