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Episode 58 How Can Art Help Our Students Become Lifelong Learners? with Cassie Stephens

23/09/2020 0 comments

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In this episode, Dan interviews Cassie Stephen to discuss how art can help students become lifelong learners. Episode 58 How can art help our students become lifelong learners? is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Join the Facebook Community Some people underestimate the power of art in transforming mindset and behaviour. Practising […]

Episode 57 How does Classroom Behaviour Impact Lifelong Learning?

18/09/2020 1 comment

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In this episode, Dan explains how behaviour management effects not just learning, but lifelong learning. Episode 55 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Join the Facebook Community Video show Show notes Things to avoid Yell at a student… ok to raise your voice to get attention but yelling at a student […]

The role of professional reading in deliberate practice

17/02/2020 1 comment

Deliberate practice is practice that has specific goals for improvement, repetition and feedback to ensure that the goal is met and that there is a measured improvement in performance. When applied to teaching this process naturally leads to a focus on classroom practice. But an often overlooked aspect of this process is the need for […]

Episode 29 Cognitive Load

05/02/2020 0 comments

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In this episode, Dan explains what cognitive load is and how it can be leveraged to increase the student learning in your lessons. Cognitive Load is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Join the Facebook Community What is Cognitive Load? Cognitive load is the theory that your working memory has a limited […]

Lesson Observations Using Deliberate Practice

03/02/2020 2 comments

I have to say that I love having my lessons observed and enjoy watching other teacher’s classrooms in progress. I know this is not what every teacher says, but I love it for one reason only and that is because it helps me to get better! At one of my schools, we were given funding […]

Applying deliberate practice to improve teaching performance

27/01/2020 0 comments

The most important aspect of deliberate practice is that it must focus on improving performance. As teachers this performance could relate to our professional knowledge, practice or engagement. That is it can relate to our understanding of our students, how they learn and how to apply this to our teaching. It could also relate to […]

Why should you engage in deliberate practice?

23/01/2020 0 comments

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 […]

What is deliberate practice?

22/01/2020 6 comments

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 […]

3 reasons you must stop to reflect as a teacher

04/01/2020 0 comments

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. […]

Know the content and how to teach it

04/12/2019 0 comments

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 […]

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