Welcome Back!
Today we will carry on from yesterday to refine our definition of Successful Learners and develop Look to Learn activities for units of work.
Years 5 – 12
- Revisit Successful Learners to highlight and comment on different pedagogical strategies to achieve the vision.
- Apply the contribution of Look to Learn activities.
- Choose 2-3 to focus on first as a school.
The Edge-ucators Way
Tom will present the background and rationale for these approaches for staff consideration.
- Next Era Ed Overview (pdf)
- The Edge-ucators Way
- Look to Learn
- ClassPortal (Passion Projects, Local history, etc.)
- WebQuests (VCE – 3 F2F/2 online)
C E Q • A LL / Seek all!
Self-managed Learning Framework for students
- Overview / Rationale
- Profiles (pdf)
- Rubric (pdf)
Enhancing Years 5 – 12 Units of Work
Target aspects of developing “Successful Learners” in an upcoming unit of work – perhaps through including Look to Learn / Visible Thinking activities, using CEQ•ALL or problem-based learning (WebQuests).
Teaching and Learning Committee
Change Management / Michael Fullan
- Checklist: Critical Issues for Teams to Consider (pdf)
- Activity: Framework for Systemic Improvement (pdf)
Background Documents
- Overview of the 6 Secrets of Change
- The “Skinny” on Becoming Change Savvy (26 page pdf) – quote: “The idea of ‘the skinny’ is to boil down the essence of change into the smallest number of key, high yield factors that have high impact on stakeholder learning. The goal is to a) increase the speed of quality change, and b) to achieve large-scale or whole system reform.”
- Full Workshop Handout (56 page pdf)
Learning to Lead Change
- FYI: Drivers and the Four Criteria (pdf)
- FYI: Module 1: Ready – Fire – Aim (pdf) – a guide for the Learning Managers Team
- FYI: Professional Learning Communities (pdf)
- FYI: Secrets 2 – 5 one-pager (pdf)
- Reflection on Secret 4 – Learning is the Work (& finding time)
- Leadership – Working with resistance one pager (pdf)
- Reflection on being a teacher (pdf)
Prep – Year 4
“Successful Learners”
- Which aspects of Successful Learners can P-4 “own”?
Classblog Samples – Edublog 2012 Winners
- Mrs. Yollis’ Classroom Blog
- Fabulous 5S
- 4KM And 4KJ @ Leopold Primary School
- 3/4C & 3/4K @ UPPS (former participant in Tom’s workshop – and up the street!)
- 3/4C @ The Junction
- Ms Cassidy’s Year One
Stixy – post what you like and want to do
Hands-on with Schoology
Enhancing Units of Work
Target aspects of developing “Successful Learners” in an upcoming unit of work – perhaps through including Look to Learn / Visible Thinking activities, using CEQ•ALL or problem-based learning (WebQuests).