Mini-Mentors

A teaching and learning practice I saw on my travels was that of PINs (Passion, Interest, Needs) and so as part of my Kaizen Joe suggested that I give our version - Mini-Mentor,s a go.

My Kaizen smart goal for the end of the term was to trial this so we can learn from it when (and if) we decide to roll it out on a larger scale.

I still need to get voice from the Mentees, but here it is so far;

Auckland Adventure

Our Stonefields visit to Auckland was fantastic and it was good to see how other schools similarly built develop their culture, run their programme and the processes they have implemented to ensure student engagement, interest and their childrens' progression.

I was able to stay in Auckland and go to another 2 schools - also with flexible learning environments and spend a day in each, chatting to the mentors and children and picking their brains as to what they do / have tried that engages and motivates the children.

Needless to say my head was spinning. Add to that the Play Based Learning course on Saturday which was run by Longworth Education and i've come away with many wonderings.

My day spent synthesising what I learnt has been very valuable and below is a scan of my notes. As I am a bit of a muller-overer I'm sure that over the next set of holidays and in to the new term I will keep revisiting my notes and pulling out the information as and when I need it.

As Reid from HPS said;

One Sentence Job Description

Last year we wrote our one sentence job description quite early in the year. This made it really difficult! Thankfully, this year we are at the start of term 2 and have just had to do it. Still wasn't easy, but having done my current and desired realities and had my first Kaizen meeting of the year it was easier as everything seems to be slotting together. Here it is;