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How do you know if effective teaching is occurring in your school? | Educational Leader... - 0 views

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leadership Effective Teaching Walkthroughs

shared by Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Apart from just observation, which is very important, what rigorous processes can we implement to reflect upon and use to answer this question?
  • The analysis of the information collected is not intended to give individual feedback to teachers but to provide whole school information about strengths and weaknesses in the implementation of formative assessment strategies.
  • A high level of trust among staff is important to ensure the authenticity and success of the Walkthrough process. It is seen as a supportive way to ensure that we hold each other accountable for achieving our scoreboard.
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  • Raising the performance of our entire teaching team is the focus as well as each teacher taking individual responsibility for improving their implementation of quality teaching practices.
Aaron Davis

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group work collaboration BIM teaching and learning

shared by Aaron Davis on 20 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • What is the ideal number for the group size for this task? Are students clear about what effective collaboration looks like and sounds like? What are the group goals and individual goals for this task? Are they clear to the students? How are you going to fend off ‘social loafing’? Should personality differences influence our grouping decisions? Are there introverts in the classroom that should receive particular attention as we decide upon grouping students? How should we group in relation to ability or skill levels? Are the groups separate by ability or mixed, or randomised? Does this make a difference?
  • Aaron Davis on 20 Feb 16
     
    Alex Quigley explores the topic of group work. Rather than a clear answer, he provides a excellent series of reflective questions to guide things. If we accept the notion of the 'wisdom of crowds', then what is the magic number for group size? There is no fixed answer, but research evidence shows that any group size above six is unlikely to be effective. Why is this? Well, successful group work relies on group goals, but alongside individual responsibility. With too many students in a group it is too easy for social loafing (students putting in less effort when they know they can because other group members pick up the slack) to happen. Better to have a smaller groups, such as trios or fours. Of course, even then, they'll need training.
Aaron Davis

Making Student Blogs More than Digital Diaries - Getting Smart by Dave Guymon - bloggin... - 0 views

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cybersafety blogging digital footprint

shared by Aaron Davis on 28 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Put simply, a digital footprint is what your students would see if they Googled themselves. And whether or not they know it, each of them has a footprint online. A digital footprint is made up of both passive information about Internet use and actively volunteered content.
  • Establishing a positive digital footprint involves more than educating our students about what they should choose to keep offline. We should also be teaching them what to publish to improve their digital image.
  • effective uses of student blogs engage others in meaningful conversations.
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  • quality classroom blogging should transcend the classroom altogether, bridging the gap between school, home, and the world our students live in.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Feb 14
     
    An interesting post on digital footprint and blogging.
Aaron Davis

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formative assessment learning Effective Teaching

shared by Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Formative assessments are simply little gauges or indicators of how students are progressing towards a learning goal
  • 2) Real-Time Feedback
  • 3) Building It In
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  • 1) Ticket out the door
  • Over time the students felt comfortable enough to tell me when they really didn't like the learning style I was using or that they enjoyed a particular way I presented the content. I had a better grasp on the learning my students were doing and they had a better grasp on the content. It was a definite win-win. 
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    An interesting reflection on formative assessment and some simple ideas of how to incorporate it into the classroom.
Aaron Davis

Sticking to the 'Main Thing'-A positive leadership reflection | Educational Leadership ... - 0 views

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Leadership effective schools learning

shared by Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • One of the first leadership decisions I made was to work with staff to audit our schools meta-curriculum. That is all of those programs, events, celebrations, operational arrangements and practices which are not core to the teaching and learning that happens inside classrooms.
  • My mantra was to “give teachers permission to spend their time improving the learning of the students in their class with minimal disruption”.
  • Students are spending less time out of classrooms and more time focused on their own learning.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Jun 14
     
    A great post from Jason Borton discussing how he worked with his leadership team to refocus his school on learning.
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