Getting Better Together
Deliberate practice is all about improving your craft. It has 5 key elements: Designed in order to improve performance Repeated Feedback driven Uses a sustained mental and/or physical effort Structured around learning goals The question as to why you should engage in deliberate practice should be fairly obvious. The number one reason is to improve […]
We have all heard that in order to become an expert at a skill you need to have amassed 10, 000 hours of practice. But is this really all there is to becoming an expert? In his books So Good They Can’t Ignore You and Deep Work Professor Cal Newport says “no!”. Instead referring to […]
There are probably a million reasons why teachers should stop and reflect on their practice frequently and consistently and there are probably as many different ways of reflecting, from using surveys such as those provided by AITSL in the teacher self-assessment tool to the constant reflections that we do on our practice throughout a single lesson. […]
The Australian Professional Teaching Standards have the following statement that relates to this standard: “Teachers know the content of their subjects and curriculum. They know and understand the fundamental concepts, structure and enquiry processes relevant to programs they teach“ The teaching standard “Know the content and how to teach it” has 6 areas of focus […]
It is vital as teachers that we continually reflect on our practice. This video series below forms part of the online course “Reflecting on Practice” and focuses on how we are using the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to help in this process. If you would like to complete this course as part of your […]
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In this episode of the Effective Teaching podcast, Dan interviews Eleni Kyritsis from Teach Tech Play to discuss how STEM can be used in your classroom to create lifelong learners. STEM with Eleni Kyritsis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. What is STEM? STEM is often thought about as robotics and […]
Automated Transcript for the webinar below Well hi, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me for this webinar on effective teaching. Today, I’m going to be talking to you guys about about effective teaching strategies. The first thing that I want us to do is to go over the goals of what I want […]
https://youtu.be/dM_wO6_-miw The teaching standard “Know your students and how they learn” has 6 areas of focus but can generally be broken up into two aspects, knowledge of your students and understanding how students learn. Know your students The focus here is really on the students in your classroom. How well do you know them? Are […]
1. What if the students don’t watch the videos? This is by far the most common objection I hear when it comes to flipping classrooms. Teachers fear coming into their classroom and having only a portion of their students who have watched the video, while others have not. “Why go to the effort of making […]
1. Use sentence starters Often students are unsure how they should start their statements or questions in group discussions and can shy away from participation. Providing them with sentence starters can really help empower these students to contribute more to the seminars. A few examples of sentence starters that could be shared with the students […]