Kia Ora
Thursday of next week Viv will be running an introductory workshop for teachers in the Hawke’s Bay interested in learning more about Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert approach. Suitable for primary through to secondary and for curious beginners to experienced practitioners, this meeting will be a low key gathering in the tradition of the successful cluster meetings that have run in Hamilton, Bay of Plenty and elsewhere for the last few years.
Where: Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) 501 Gloucester St, Taradale, Napier
Room L319 (third floor of the library block – you’ll find the lift by “Bean There” cafe)
When: 4.30 for 5pm until 6.30pm on Thursday 3rd September
Bring: a friend and a contribution to shared kai (finger food or drink)
Cost: Only your time
Be ready to: Actively participate and plan together, share knowledge, experience and questions,
Take away: Something to try in your teaching.
Since this is the first session in Hawke’s Bay it would be good to have an idea of numbers attending, so please RSVP to VAitken@eit.ac.nz
Hope to see you there…
Mantle makes its mark
Kia Ora colleagues
Here’s a lovely article from Susan Battye – published in the latest edition of Tomorrow’s School’s Today NZ magazine. Susan reports on our recent symposium Te Aho Tapu and shares stories from NZ teachers on how Mantle is making its mark in their classrooms … Thanks Susan!
http://www.tstnz.com/staffroom-magazine/arts-drama-for-learning-mantle-of-the-expert-makes-its-mark/
Introductory workshop / cluster meeting for Hawkes Bay
Kia Ora
Tauranga Cluster Meeting
Hi everybody,
The next meeting of the Tauranga Cluster group will be held at Omokoroa Point School on Thursday 10th of Septembeer at 4pm.
We are lucky enough to be Andrea O’Hagan, a drama specialist, taking us through Drama activities and conventions. Hope you can make it.
Stephen
Changes afoot !
Kia Ora Friends…! Things have been quiet for a while but behind the scenes there are exciting changes afoot with the Mantle of the Expert website… We are about to engage a website designer to give us a new ‘look’ and improved features on the site. Thanks for your patience while we go through this process, which will result in a much improved site and iron out some of the technical issues we’ve been having with some of the blogs, links etc… In the meantime, please remember that the Facebook page is available for discussion / updates / sharing of ideas…
Changes are also afoot within the cluster meetings. Some of the tireless volunteers who have been actively involved in facilitating these groups over the years are meeting soon to discuss new possibilities for supporting teachers and keeping the mantle flame alive. There are some neat ideas in the offing… We will keep you posted… watch this space!
In the meantime, there is a meeting planned for Hawke’s Bay teachers on 3rd September. Details to follow shortly…
Next Hamilton cluster meeting
Hi team
The next cluster meeting for the Waikato region, which was scheduled for 6th May has been postponed. However, keep watching this space as there are plans afoot for a session based on drama conventions to be held out at Te Kauwhata school soon…
Tauranga Cluster Group first meeting
Hi everybody,
A reminder of our first cluster meeting of 2015. It will be held on Thurdsay 23 April at Windermere in the Maharaia Room, 3:30 nibbles with a 4 pm start. Omokoroa Point School will be sharing their journey so far.
Hope to see you all there.
Stephen
Tauranga’s First MoTE meeting for 2015
Hello everyone,
A quick message to let you know that we will now have our first gathering on the 23rd of April, 4pm at Windermere in Maharaia. It was scheduled for tomorrow but a number of us were not able to make this. Hope this suits everybody.
We will have a focus on planning and Omokoroa Point will share their journey so far.
Hope to see you all then,
Stephen
Hamilton Cluster meeting – date for your diary
The Hamilton cluster meeting at Aberdeen school this week was a great success. It was great to see so many in attendance – we had about 15 there including an international visitor – Joni Warner from the US – (great you could make it Joni!). Participants enjoyed hearing from Michelle (a regular Mantle user), who shared her planning principles. Participants then broke into two groups: one lot tried out planning for themselves and the other participated in a mini mantle designed to promote writing. It was very exciting to hear at the end of the meeting how every person was taking away something new to try in their classrooms. We look forward to hearing how you get on! Do share your experiences on our facebook page.
Next meeting of the Hamilton / Waikato group is planned for Wednesday 6th May and we are all invited out to Te Kauwhata school – Thanks Vicki and team! The focus for that session will be using drama conventions for effective teaching across the curriculum… Watch this space for more information closer to the time.
Hamilton’s first cluster meeting of 2015 coming up soon
Kia ora colleagues. The first cluster meeting of 2015 for the Hamilton region will be held on Thursday 26th February at 4pm at Aberdeen school, Aberdeen Drive, Dinsdale in Hamilton. This will be a session on planning in Mantle of the Expert – good for beginners or a refresher for more experienced teachers. We will share and compare different teachers’ planning approaches, and consider how to plan taking into account the core elements that make up MoTE. Many thanks to Michelle for hosting this session.
It would be good to get a sense of numbers, so if you would like to attend, please email Michelle at mparkes
Viv
Report from cluster meetings in Tauranga and Auckland
Two cluster meetings were held recently – a fresh gathering of people in Auckland (thanks Raquela and Michelle for organising this) and a re-gathering of the faithful in Tauranga (great to see such a big turnout and thank you for the lovely parting gifts). Here is Raquela’s report on what the Auckland meeting got up to – along with a planning resource for working in the Commission model, as shared by Kineret.
Mantle of the Expert – Commission Model (2)