Digital Technologies Staff Meeting PD

Staff Meeting. This took place in week ten. Ideally it would have perhaps been better to take place sooner in the term but it scheduled meant this is when it was (perhaps could have advocated more for an earlier time). Two staff members were absent and the staff meeting was further complicated by a powercut which took place at 3:45pm which removed Wi-Fi and prevented the group discussions from being recorded. There was a sharing aspect of the staff meeting with a request for staff to bring an item to share from the Digital Curriculum that tied in with the resources. 

This wasn't successful as most staff didn't bring something (however this could be remedied by staff completing the slideshow at a later date which I can send a reminder out about).   The other issue that could have been followed up on was the staff who undertook the PD.  It was clear from the discussion that was centred around the Mindlabs PD for the Digital Curriculum that while it had been completed by some staff, which I believe was two others, it had not been looked at by most staff.    Given everything that happened and the follow up etc its something that I want to positively pursue to ensure that everyone makes the most of the opportunity.   I think the PD aspect from Mindlab is an exceptional resource but need to promoted as something positive for the staff as an opportunity. 

I haven't received any feedback on the PD at the moment however I think the experience and the slideshow and the building of it was positive, but the approach and the sharing of it and the delegation of the tasks could have been driven better (perhaps I could have followed up in person with additional emails and spoke more directly to people about completing the sharing part of the session).

From here:

• contact staff to ensure that the feedback was completed (during the holidays)
• provide staff with a reminder opportunity about the Flipped PD and the opportunity to gain a PD qualification, linking to the helpfulness of the task.   
• Use the 'Digital Fluency Playing Cards' which have been purchased by the school to further enhance the understanding and discussion about the Digital Curriculum
• Get feedback about the staff meeting from Senior Manangement who were there (KT) and feedback from Senior Management who were not there (JC, KB) about the slideshow.