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Teacher Personal Action Plans: Formative Assessment
After seeing Dylan Wiliam in term 1 and making a commitment to develop formative assessment as a site it is great that we can now share our formative assessment goals (via Personal Action Plans) on the...
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Professional Learning – Classroom Observations & Student Feedback
At some point this term you should be meeting with your Line Manager to talk about your professional learning. I must admit that in terms of professional learning their is a lot going on when you...
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Formative Assessment
In our staff meeting this week (week 1 term 3) we will be revisiting our formative assessment action plans from early term 2. What formative assessment strategies did we say we were trying to...
View ArticleFormative Assessment Reflection
I hope that staff were able to get something out of this weeks staff meeting, being able to reflect where they are at with developing formative assessment techniques with students. It is important to...
View ArticleProfessional reading from Twitter
Twitter provides a great range of articles for teachers to read allowing for reflection on their own practice. Here are three that I have recently found. Click on the blog post name to view the...
View ArticleHow is your professional learning going?
I don’t think that anyone disputes that to become better teachers we must engage in professional learning. How we go about engaging in that learning will have a significant impact on how effective that...
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Professional Reading from Twitter Part 2
Twitter continues to provide me with a range of thought provoking articles about education. Below are a couple that I would like to share with you. Reading number 1 Blog: te@chthought Blog post: 10...
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Classroom Observations
I thought it might be useful to revisit the PBAS Observation process and then share my experience with it this term. Before discussing the process it is important for new staff or staff who have not...
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Professional Reading from Twitter Part 3
Reading number 1 Blog: Mind Shift: How we learn Blog post: Are We Taking Our Students’ Work Seriously Enough? How genuine are we involving our students and seriously listening to what they say? Posted...
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Got Feedback? Used Feedback?
Have you had someone observe your students learning in your classroom? If yes have you been able to use this information to plan some professional improvement goals for the remainder of 2014 and into...
View ArticleFollow Up: Week 1 Term 3 Classroom Observations & Student Feedback Reflection
I hope that teachers found last weeks staff meeting time useful to reflect on their practice around classroom observations and student feedback. Thank you to teaching staff who emailed their...
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Professional Reading from Twitter Part 4
Reading number 1 Blog: Cult of Pedagogy Blog post: 5 Reasons You Should Seek Your Own Student Feedback Posted on Twitter by @davidbie Rather than reading a lengthy article it is at times enough to...
View ArticlePBAS Teacher Learning 2015
Professional Learning John Hattie – Hattie’s research tells us the most important factor in student learning, within the school, is the teacher. It is not, among others, funding, school buildings, ICT...
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Professional Reading from Twitter Part 5
Click on the blog post titles to be taken to the article. Reading number 1 Blog: Wayfaring Path Blog post: Kill the report card Posted on Twitter by @whatedsaid Reading Viewing number 2 Posted on...
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Learning Design – What do my students already know?
Tanya has very kindly allowed me to share her classroom observation which occurred in week 3. Tanya’s focus is around Finding out what students already know. This closely links with the Learning Design...
View ArticleThe TFEL Compass Tool – Tutorial Videos
The Teaching and Learning in South Australia You Tube Channel has posted 3 videos on how to set up and use the TFEL Compass Tool. These videos were produced by the Teaching for Effective Learning Team....
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PBAS Professional Learning Community
At the beginning of the year a decision was made to use some staff meeting time (twice a term) to have professional discussions. These discussions would be teacher led and require the sharing of...
View ArticleWhat’s important?
Below is a conversation that a mum shared in response to a blog post I was reading and It made me reflect on the topic of grades in the learning process. Conversation between mother and son about...
View ArticleSharing Professional Practice
Creating learning opportunities for staff (TfEL Domain 1 – Learning for effective teaching) is worded in the TfEL document as Leaders create learning opportunities with staff. It is important to note...
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Professional Reading from Twitter Part 6
Reading number 1 Blog: edutopia Blog post: Homework, Sleep, and the Student Brain Posted on Twitter by @VipulaSharma1 Reading number 2 Blog: My Learning Journey Blog post: Can I be a little bit better...
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