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CommunityCommunity Week 4

When I Become a teacher!When I Become a teacher!

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•What skills, knowledge and understandings would you like that person to have by the time they finish school?

•What are the key values you believe are important to have, learn and understand?

•What are the ESSENTIAL and ENDURING skills and knowledge a student should know and be able to do?

Mental Models in EducationMental Models in Education

Effective schools teach with purpose. Teachers know how students learn and build on students' existing knowledge-base, correcting misconceptions where necessary. Teachers have a strong grasp of the structure and content of their discipline. They use teaching strategies matched to the learning styles and needs of their students to engage them with that content. Purposeful teachers contextualise their teaching practices. They centre their teaching on the experiences of their students, equipping them with knowledge and skills they can use in everyday life.

OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE

What is powerful to

learn?

VictorianEssential Learning

Standards

What is powerful learning and

what promotes it?

Principles ofLearning

and Teaching

LEARNER

How do we know it has been learnt?

Assessment Advice

Who do we report to?

StudentsParents

CommunitySystem

What does it all mean?

Discuss with a partner……What does this mean for your teaching?

See handout…….See handout…….week1 teacher reflectionweek1 teacher reflection

Reflection TIME!

In the next 9 weeks what do you want to find out more about…….

Are we ever ready to be teachers ?

How do you know when you are ready to be a teacher?

Personal ReflectionPersonal Reflection

What area of your teaching What area of your teaching would you like to focus on….would you like to focus on….

What do you find challenging What do you find challenging about teaching and learning so about teaching and learning so far….far….

What make teaching funWhat make teaching fun What makes teaching hard….What makes teaching hard….

OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE

What is powerful to

learn?

VictorianEssential Learning

Standards

What is powerful learning and

what promotes it?

Principles ofLearning

and Teaching

LEARNER

How do we know it has been learnt?

Assessment Advice

Who do we report to?

StudentsParents

CommunitySystem

Schools as Learning CommunitiesSchools as Learning Communities

Who is the learner in schools?Who is the learner in schools? What are they learning and What are they learning and

why?why? Who leads the learning?Who leads the learning? How is the learning shared?How is the learning shared? Why is learning at the centre of Why is learning at the centre of

all planning?all planning?

Planning for Deep Learning and Understanding

What is Program Planning (not lesson planning)

Models: Advantages / Disadvantages

Unit Planning, Work programming,

Why use this way of working,

Why have a work program,

What will yours look like and why……

Powerful LearningPowerful Learning

What are the ESSENTIAL and ENDURING skills and knowledge a student should know and be able to do?

What is powerful learning for the students, teachers, parents?

Look, Think, ReflectLook, Think, Reflect

Look at the following examples Look at the following examples of program planning.of program planning.

List advantages/ disadvantages.List advantages/ disadvantages. What is Unit planning for?What is Unit planning for? Does the Unit planning Does the Unit planning

document support powerful document support powerful learning?learning?