What is InterLEAD Connector™?

InterLEAD Connector™ is a very simple to use on-line cloud based system that provides educators with a number of key benefits:

  • Strengthens Professional Growth Cycle work through sharing and collaboration
  • Generates teaching practice data for on-going teacher reflection;
  • Supports intrinsically driven teacher self improvement
  • Expedites the development of a culture where intelligent failure is embraced and subsequently supports teacher innovation
  • Enhances teachers’ decision making when setting Professional Growth Cycles


Using InterLEAD Connector™ each teacher is provided with a personal secure on-line Journal to help them record their learning journey.

The Journal allows teachers too:

  • Set Professional Growth Cycles, goals and/or inquiries
  • Share their reflective journals with others and also access their colleague’s
  • Invite teachers from other schools into their on-line journals
  • Save and store evidence
  • Share their critical thinking with colleagues
  • Upload within written reflections images from websites and also photographs.

 

The Connector Surveys also has a series of different features that can be utilised by educators to help their grow their professional practice;

The Student Voice survey (for primary and secondary schools) allows teachers to set themselves up to receive feedback on five areas of their teaching practice – Safety & Well Being, Teacher Standards & Expectations, Teaching & Learning – Relationships; Teaching & Learning – Communication and Teaching & Learning – Motivation. Students’ feedback is confidential and teachers can set themselves up with as many student reviews as they like throughout a year.

The Staff Evaluation survey allows teachers to get feedback on vital teaching practices and/or receives feedback from others, they can then access reports in the My Reports section to help them formatively assess their practice. Data is displayed in multiple ways – dials and tables – and accumulates over a year allowing teachers to monitor progress.

 

Will we need support to bring InterLEAD Connector™ to our school/centre?

It depends… are you looking for a quick fix to your current system? Or are you looking for a vehicle that drives systemic change and impacts on the culture of your workplace?

The success of any system depends on the people using it; InterLEAD Connector™ is no different. The sinking of a freighter ship provides a useful analogy. It is a very good system designed to transport freight but it can run aground on a reef not because of any fault with the system itself but because of human failings. Teachers and leaders can undermine the potential InterLEAD Connector™ offers if they don’t acquire new thinking, skills and practices. That is where we can help.

InterLEAD Connector™ is a system and can be thought of in the same way as we think of a ship. Leaders are increasingly realising how they, their teachers and ultimately their students/children can benefit most from a system when users possess crucial knowledge and skills.

Feedback we are receiving from leaders and teachers using InterLEAD Connector™ is extremely positive but in talking to users however many teachers and leaders are realising they are missing valuable opportunities to make profound differences to the culture of their school/centre, to teaching practice and learning opportunities in classrooms/learning environments because users are not in possession of all the necessary knowledge facts and have not had opportunities to develop key skills allowing them to tap into the full potential the Connector offers.

Contact our team at connector@interlead.co.nz or call Andrew on 0212221700  if you would like to know more about InterLEAD Connector™ – designed in New Zealand for New Zealand teachers.