1. What?
What ideas most resonated with you at
Tony Ryan’s Cluster Meeting?
 Lifelong learning
 Choosing a positive attitude
 The power of positivity
 Zest
 Having fun
 Starting with key competencies then context
 The ability to think critically
 M-learning (mobile learning)
 The difference we make with our actions & words
 ‘The Ripple Effect’
 Children as teachers
 Dynamic titles/themes for topics
 We are powerful role models
 Change

2. So what?
What implications do these ideas have?
We have to:
 engage the children
 be inspirational
 be enthusiastic in out teaching
 be prepared to change our teaching practices
 listen to children’s voices
 children as teachers & learners
 model and teach the key competencies
 use key competencies as the umbrella
 plan from the key competencies

3. What now?
What do we want to do now? How can
we link the ideas to e-learning?
We want:
 to adopt an inquiry approach in our classroom
programmes
 drive learning from the key competencies –
focusing on skills not topics
 look at school wide planning, for example;
key competencies  big picture  contexts
 embed and strengthen the school values through
the key competences
 develop student evaluation of their own learning
 have student experts
 use the coaching model for appraisal
 our students to see fun, enthusiasm, spontaneity
and positivity
 quality dialogue between all

4.  analysis of how to best access technology for
example;
1. What new technology would we like to use? (For
example; smart table etc.)
2. COWS or computer “pods’ to travel to different
rooms for use.
3. Dismantle the e-space and place the computers into
classrooms
What are implications for the above ideas – cost,
wiring, knowledge, best usage etc.
What now? The next step for Tahunanui School is to
collectively select some of the above ideas to develop.