Stephen Gordon & Jennie Stewart from Sunnybrae Normal School share their school's plan for integrating ICT PD to support teacher Professional Learning in their school.

1. Pathway and Product
Sunnybrae Normal School
Stephen Gordon
and Jennie Stewart

2. Pathway Point to Ponder
Management is about
running a school.
Leadership is about running
a school somewhere.
Geoff Southworth 1998

3. Cluster Vision
We will improve the pedagogical
awareness of teachers in order to
develop their ability to provide
programmes that are based on the
following approaches to learning:

4. Approaches to learning
integration of the curriculum,
inquiry learning,
higher order thinking skills,
e-learning,
differentiated learning and
gifted and talented learning.

5. Shared goals …
To develop teacher and student confidence
and skill in using ICT in the classroom and
for sharing presentations to a wider
audience.
To truly integrate ICTs across the
curriculum as tools for learning.
To combine ICT knowledge with
educational pedagogy and explore learning
in exciting, interesting, and effective ways.

6. More shared goals
To develop a professional
learning community online using
an extranet for the sharing of
resources and ideas.
To access hardware and to
provide technical support and
knowledge where needed.

7. Leading the learning …
Provide professional development
programmes, which focus on
improving teaching quality and
learning outcomes for all students
and strengthening communities of
professional practice.

8. Leading the learning …
Increase capability of teachers and
principals to effectively use a range of
relevant ICT resources and materials.
Develop and contribute to the
growing resource of expertise,
experience and materials in the
effective use of ICT.

9. The Pathway
What are the key features of a
successful and sustainable professional
development model?
Discuss your current school model -
what is working well and what would you
like to change?

10. Sunnybrae’s Pathway
Performance Management Cycle
Professional Development
Overview
Staff Meetings/Readings Schedule
PD Goal Setting - ICT paper
In-class support overview/timetable

11. Sunnybrae’s Pathway
Evaluation and reflection
Teacher reflections
Syndicate Leader Evaluations
Online Cluster Survey
Appraisal Interviews - new goals set

12. Supporting the Pathway
What elements would you need to
identify as being critical to
supporting a Professional
Learning pathway in your school?
e.g. infrastructure, budgeting,
resources, staffing, organisation ...

13. Supporting the Pathway at
Sunnybrae
Infrastructure
Budget - staffing for support
Resources - essential equipment
Organisation - peer coaching
Managing resources - PMI

14. Products of the Pathway
Website and Intranet development
Storage and access
ePortfolios - challenges/success
Sharing of products

15. What do you like about being a
learner at Sunnybrae?
Students
Pre-Service Teachers
Teachers

16. Your Pathway
What ideas could you explore for
your school’s pathway?
- short term
- long term
What action will you take?

17. Recommended Readings
An introduction to classroom observation: E.C.Wragg.
Reprinted 2001 by Routledge Falmer. ISBN 0-415-19440-7
A book to help guide your classroom observation skills to
support professional development.
Coaching Leadership: Building Educational Leadership
Capacity through Coaching Partnerships: Jan Robertson.
NZCER Press Wellington 2005. ISBN 1-877398-02-0
A book to use as a guide to assist you to develop
leadership capacity across the school. Includes a chapter
on Action Research and Coaching.

18. Recommended Readings
The Reflective Principal: School Development
Within a Learning Community –
David Stewart and Tom Prebble. (1993)
ISBN 0-9598025-3-3
A book to use as a guide for principals to lead
their school communities towards more
reflective and more collaborative approaches to
their work.