My Professional connections can be divided in to four main areas:
School Community: Teachers, Senior Leadership Team, Akonga and Whahnau,
Local Community: NZAMT, MOE, Face to face Schools
Online Community: NZQA, TKI, Statistics NZ, Stats Learning Centre, Khan Academy
Professional Community: Core Ed, NZ Education Support Services (NZESS),
Evaluating impact of two professional connections on my practice and professional community:
Te Kura is distance education provider school, due to this aspect; our school is very different from all face to face school. In each curriculum area, for example in Mathematics, my connections with all colleague teachers are crucial for my everyday professional practice. We work very closely with each other in all the aspects of teaching and learning, i.e. developing student learning and assessment resources, assessment of student learning and moderation of assessments, as well as our own learning and professional development. We interact with each other individually, through face to face meetings, online meetings, telephone and e-mail communications, as and when needed in our daily routine. There really is sharing and caring culture within Te Kura teaching community. On top of our own professional responsibilities, we individually create and share teaching and learning, as well as assessment resources, on regular bases. Te Kura also has efficient electronic resource storage and sharing system called Electronic Document Resource Management and Storage – EDRMS.
We also, closely work with and benefit from New Zealand Qualifications Authority – NZQA and Te Kete Ipurangi - TKI. This covers all the aspects of curriculum, assessment resources and management of students’ qualifications, for example assessment standards specifications, clarifications, assessment tasks and schedules. We also benefit from the professional development offered in our curriculum area, by NZQA. Thus NZQA and TKI significantly impact our professional practice, learning and professional development, which helps make our practice NZ Curriculum informed. These organisations play crucial part and significantly impact our professional community!
References:
THE LOGIC OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES by SANDRA MATHISON AND MELISSA FREEMAN
http://www.albany.edu/cela/reports/mathisonlogic12004.pdf
TEDxBYU - David Wiley - An Interdisciplinary Path to Innovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ytjMDongp4
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