Professional learning
There is always more to learn about using digital technology effectively in your teaching practice and sharing your knowledge and ideas with others.
Story Hui is a group storytelling process that can be used by teachers to evaluate 21st century learning in deeper and wider terms. Story Hui combines teachers' success stories with visual mapping, digital transcripts, and a group questioning process that helps to uncover hidden meaning, value, and impact.
Find out how you can use Story Hui as part of your teacher inquiry »
Pegasus Bay School staff share their approach to developing culturally responsive practice.
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Whanake Ngaiotanga | Professional learning is one of the five dimensions of the e-Learning Planning Framework. This website is designed to support schools develop their e-learning capability across the five dimensions. The Whanake Ngaiotanga page contains school stories and examples to support Kura Kaupapa Māori.
This paper briefly outlines the importance of professional learning in the secondary school context, reviews relevant research on professional learning groups, and then outlines the experiences of two schools that have introduced such groups.
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These free self-paced learning modules are for personal or staff professional development. Questions for reflection and discussion are contained in each module.
The modules are designed to be flexible, so you can select the content that is relevant to you and your school from each of them.
There are four modules covering:
The Practising Teacher Criteria and e-learning section unpacks each criterion with examples of how digital technologies can be used to support the key indicators. Use the examples to set goals, build digital fluency, reflect on and develop teacher practice.
Deputy Principal, Vicki Trainor explains why teacher inquiry was used as a method of professional development at Holy Cross School following the development of their e-learning strategic plan.
The e-Learning Planning Framework enables schools to identify where they are in terms of e-learning capability, and plan their next step.
The eLPF online survey tool supports this review and provides data for easy analysis.
e-Learning community discussions
Join these groups to participate in discussions with other teachers/educators about the content here, or that is relevant for you.
Enabling e-Learning
e-Learning: Leadership
e-Learning: Teaching
e-Learning: Technologies
e-Learning: Professional Learning
e-Learning: Beyond the classroom
Using the e-Learning Planning Frameworks
Connected Learning Advisory
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