Professional Development

We do many forms of Professional Development at Muritai. As a school we have main focus which we collectively work on. Teams have learning talk each week in team meetings where they problem solve a learning or teaching aspect putting their collective minds together to identify best practice to improve learning outcomes. Staff attend various workshops based on their identified development goals. In September Michael Pohl is working with us on enhancing our thinking culture and developing questioning skills in teachers and children. Often the best development though is to watch each other teach. Matt has blogged about the recent VCOP presentation that Belinda did for many of the staff. VCOP is a structural support mechanism to improve writing knowledge to help develop children's writing i the middle school. It is making a great difference this year. Great stuff. Check it out on Matt's blog.