- Kelly began her teaching career in the room next door. Scared, nervous and over prepared. After two years of 'slog' , doing it this way', listening to everyone, trying it all, changing it all and letting the voices take over, she gave up.
Kelly is not alone. Many good teachers leave the profession within the first 5 years of teaching. There are many reasons why this happens, one being that teachers get isolated. Feedback ONLiNE is a way to bring teachers together, keep support simple and break through the noise. A chance to look at oneself, laugh, learn and see what works and find the confidence to help others.
A long time coming , this is the original idea that sparked Sharp Teaching back in 2004 when Brian Parker and Micah Hoquard began exchanging video of their own lessons. By chance these were used by other teachers in the school and eventually fell into the hands of beginning teachers. Online software is now so clever and fast that uploading and storing video is a breeze and the idea of walking into your own or your colleagues classroom online to learn is now a reality.
>> Get involved in this project - STAGE 1
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- TESTING UPLOADS - inviting teachers to help with the research. what is the fastest way to upload.
- FIND A FEEDBACK MODEL - which models will work best for us.
- TESTING THE MODEL
- OPENING UP FEEDBACK ONLINE
- BIOGRAPHY
Brian PARKER - DipT Secondary DipT Primary, Dip FA, Cambridge CTEFLA
Reading Programme Trainer - Senior School Specialist
Brian has done all his post graduate studies in education graduating as a high school art and art history teacher back in 1990. Not long after he retrained in English as a second language tutor to pursue his interest in literacy and international cultures.
Ten years later , with ten years of teaching behind him he ended his work at the Ohtani Women's University and Clark International High School in Japan to resettle back in New Zealand where he once again went back to school, retraining as a primary school teacher.
After 7 years of teaching and leading syndicates he was asked to join the team at the prestigious private teacher training college New Zealand Graduate School of Education as a primary and secondary school tutor. It was there that he formed a strong connection with Hilton Ayrey, a fellow tutor, and together they developed the online training programme CSI ONLiNE.
Author, Hilton AYREY - BSocSci, Dip T Primary
Reading Programme Trainer - Junior and Senior School Specialist.
Hilton taught in primary schools for 18 years before taking up a position as tutor with the New Zealand Graduate School of Education, a high profile private teacher training organisation in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Over the last ten years he has developed his innovative literacy programmes for preservice and inservice teacher training. These have been extensively trialled by teaching interns as part of their training programme and have been part of whole school literacy development in a growing number of schools (recent examples - Elmwood Normal School, Christchurch, Medbury School, Christchurch, Shanghai Academy, Hong Kong).
He has also written a large number of literacy resources to support guided reading programmes including collections of stories, non fiction text, and assessment procedures.
All teachers have found unique ways of delivering their craft regardless of their subject or content. These 'little gems' are what we call 'sharp teaching'.
