Reflection and Evidence for PTC 5 Leadership FINAL

How do I show leadership that contributes to effective teaching and learning?

I am a committed, lifelong learner who enjoys learning new things and challenging myself. Through writing blogs and also being involved in the e-Learning Community, I am able to share my knowledge about e-Learning. I am passionate about teaching and learning. I believe that a collaborative approach shares the knowledge and allows teacher and students to work together, to start to think deeply about learning. By being involved in a wide variety of activities in the professional learning community
I am able share practice and also support and encourage teachers. This has enabled me to build a wide PLN which in turn encourages and supports me.
In my work as a facilitator, I also show leadership in working with teachers, SLT and colleagues to develop a professional development programme that meets the needs of the school, the teachers and learners. Examples of this leadership would be co-constructing a development plan
and running workshops around the objectives in that plan. For example running a staff meeting to enable staff to complete the ELPF (e-learning framework) survey. Another example is running a workshop for staff on the Spirals of inquiry. I believe that building relationships is crucial if I am going to make an impact on teaching and learning. A good example is a new entrant teacher who was reluctant to use IT in her class but now has a class blog and her students are using Book Creator to record their learning. See email below.

Another example of my leadership is my support for a first time Principal making some changes in her school. I have been in to  work with staff and the eleader. The teachers are now creating class blogs and sharing the students' learning on those blogs.

One challenge that I have is walking the line between what I do working for CORE and my participation in the wider learning community. I have sometimes not contributed to a Twitter chat if the topic is related to my work a a facilitator. However, most of the time the two areas
blend together, I think it is everyone working together, sharing ideas and practice as we all work to make a difference for our learners. For me that is the bottom line.

Here are examples of my leadership in the learning community.
Attendee and Presenter NZATE Conferences
Attendee and Presenter ULearn 2013, 2015 ( My Edtalk)
Attendee and Facilitator at Educamps  - Faciliator/Co-organiser 2011 -2016
Attendee and presenter at Eduignite and Teachmeet opportunities
Active on Twitter  and contributor to Twitter Chats
2013 CORE e-Fellow  - My Edtalk
Creator and blogger for Christ's College Teaching and Learning Blog
Co-founder and blogger for Christchurch Connected Educators
Co-facilitator 31 Days of blogging 2014 &2015
Presenter Enable courses

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