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The OAKHILL DRIVE TEAM: IF THE PROBLEM OF PRACTICE WERE MET

11/14/2016

3 Comments

 
Such a deep topic with so many aspects to look for in the classroom! It is amazing to see how far we have all come as schools along this journey. The mapped POP from TW PS showed this so well.

This round we will be hoping to see:
A balance between student and teacher talk with plenty of opportunities for student to student discussions without fear of judgement. – ‘Regular student engagement in sustained conversations about the concept and ideas they are encountering. Sustained, focused, and reciprocal interaction about the substance of the lesson.’
Higher level questions that require students to apply higher-order thinking skills (e.g. evaluate) *Intent Trumps Form – 'Why you ask a question, matters more than how you phrase it.'
Think time (Wait time 1 and 2) allowing students time to consider richer responses and elaborate on their answers.
High levels of talk about language / Metalanguage – what it means and how it is used
Teaching for understanding vs knowledge - where a sequence of performance tasks with increasing complexity that require students to use their skills and knowledge in new contexts
Constant feedback and individual goal setting (especially goals for understanding, not just a list of things to know) and assessment information to improve student performance.
Positive messages that allow every student to have success and feel good in their ability in a task, as well as be challenged.
  • 4:1 balance between acknowledgement of achievement and correction of behaviour.
  • Making connections between the learning and their lives.
  • Building assessment into each lesson
  • Flexible approaches to how tasks are completed.

The Task may require higher level thinking. Is there intellectual rigour in the tasks set? Are our students required to think?
We may see the students grasping ideas ( the learning) by exploring relationships, synthesising, generalising, solving problems, constructing explanations and drawing conclusions.

If many of these aspects are used successfully in the classroom the belief is that the students will become: self-driven, understand where they are heading with their learning and how to get there, be focussed on the skills of problem solving and not just the final answer, work collaboratively, be better problem solvers, be more confident to take risks /make mistakes and ask classmates for assistance, become 21C learners.


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Michelle Martinez
11/16/2016 10:36:49 am

Big ideas:
* student led learning with individual goals
* focused on acquisition of skills not only the outcome
* encouraged to take risks
* self driven
* problem solving becomes the process of learning
* teachers create a positive environment where all students have access and are engaged

Big Questions:
Can we consider changing the word risk?
We dont want children to consider learning as risky rather we want them to understand that questioning is a natural component of the learning process. There should be no fear in making mistakes. The word risk implies fear.

We feel that there are often contradictions in research. Should teachers be extracting what works for them rather than trying to tick each box?

4:1 balance between acknowledgement of achievement and correction of behaviour.
How is this balance going to be achieved?

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Home Organizers New York link
1/19/2023 05:10:46 am

This iis great

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GFE Escorts Gary link
3/22/2025 11:35:36 pm

I find these goals for creating engaging and thought-provoking learning environments very inspiring.

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