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**Teacher Only Day April 11 2011 - An Introduction to SOLO Taxonom**y
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All four schools met together as a group for the first time, in the Rotorua Lakes High Sch  ool auditorium. Pam Hook led us in an introduction to @SOLO Taxonomy, SOLO was chosen for a number of reasons:  1. We could see that it would be applicable to all three education sectors represented in our cluster; an important feature when we perceive ourselves to have different roles and needs; 2. It offers a common, school-wide approach to making learning and learning outcomes visible to students; 3. It helps us work towards our cluster goals by providing a structure for e_learning and more traditional practice:

// a) To effectively implement the New Zealand Curriculum (Goal 1) // //b) To promote student voice in learning and learning practices (Goal 1)// // c) To enhance student achievement (Goal 1) // // d) To increase capability of teachers and principals to improve student learning and achievement through e_learning (Goal 2) // // e) To establish a strong culture of inquiry (Goal 2) // // f) To develop and extend our professional learning community, within each school and across the cluster (Goal 3) // // g) Develop and maintain genuine relationships between our schools and our communities (Goal 3) // // h) To meet the needs of learners in the C21st. (Goal 5) //

 4. It is already alive and well in twelve schools in two other Rotorua clusters; students will come from some contributing schools already familiar with SOLO.

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media type="custom" key="9044346" align="left" media type="custom" key="9044348" <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Thanks to Seonie from Waterman Innovations who supplied Mimios to Lakes High and Mokoia Intermediate, sponsored thed morning tea for the day, and the tee shirts worn for future Teach Angel and Wizard projects.

Our Tech Angels went around the crowd collecting teacher voice...
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