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NAMSA - New Zealand Normal & Model Schools

Our Mission: Leading innovation and best practice as specialist initial teacher educators. Partnerships Teacher Practice Student Teacher Learning Environment Collegiality & Advocacy Summary of 2016/17 www.namsa.ac.nz See ITE Position Paper -  http://www.namsa.ac.nz/1/newsletter_sets/2-relevant-articles-reports/years/2018 1. Increased Partnership between ITE providers and NAMSA Schools  2. Developing a Clinical Practice Pathway 3. Multiple Pathways 4. Raising the Status and Professionalism of Teaching 5. Normal and Model Schools leading Quality Practicum across the Sector 6. ITE System Responsiveness Code of Practice We could use this as an assessment tool for CNS My appraisal? Associate Teacher Review -  http://www.namsa.ac.nz/1/newsletter_sets/2-relevant-articles-reports/years/2018 -  "An effective associate teacher is: … a learner who realizes that teaching is about living, theorizing, trying, reflecting, failing, succeeding,

PAC: Practise Analysis Conversation

Rita Palmer What are the hard things when promoting teacher effectiveness? being honest, yet kind people respecting what you say when people don't respond not wanting people to feel attacked professional message rather than personal Our teachers are teaching the best way they know how.  As leaders, we need to unsurface the pedagogical understanding that each teacher has in order to move them on. How people don't learn: A blow by blow account of what was observed An unfocused, rambling conversation Telling your story rather than analysing what they did 20 questions without reasons Heaping on praise and sandwiching in some critique Insert coloured circles... Practice Analysis Conversation: (a framework for discussion) Why this group at this time? (Often, teachers don't actually know) What is the focus for the lesson? What specific strategies will I observe? What do you expect the effect to be for students? How will I know the lesson has