This document outlines an agenda for a contemporary learning day. The learning goals are to discuss contemporary learning and the CSO model of pedagogy. Success criteria include identifying features of contemporary learning and reflecting on how pedagogy will progress. Future learning involves discussing success as contemporary educators and planning areas for improvement in 2014. The document provides definitions of contemporary learning, explores engagement strategies, and discusses curriculum design through the lens of four critical questions. It emphasizes putting students at the center through relevant, engaging instruction that facilitates differentiated learning.
5. Learning Goal
*To discuss contemporary learning
*To explore the CSO model and pedagogy
Success Criteria
*To identify the key features of contemporary learning
*To reflect how pedagogy will progress for our KLA
Future Learning
*Discuss our KLA success as contemporary educators
*Planning areas for improvement in 2014
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*In 15 words or less, what is
contemporary learning?
*Please use your journal p7
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“…engagement, learning starts with
cognitive routines & the classroom process
a teacher uses to help students interact
with the content.” Dr Phil Warrick
They have to work with it…
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-engage with self
-routines for student to student
-engaged for student to teacher
(reflection tools, independent research, inquiry/project/problem
learning, how do we start class-prayer? How do students seek
help? How are TA’s engaged in the learning?)
How do we set our our learning spaces & our classroom practice?
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*Record your thoughts on the following:
1. How do students look when engaged in
contemporary learning activities within your class?
2. Identify two areas your faculty could consider
reviewing to further engage students.
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*Time for a walk…
Look at your original definition of contemporary
learning and the two answers you just recorded then:
*Use 3 post it notes to rate the answer to
the 3 questions on the A3 paper on the
walls
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* Heidi Jacobs (2010) often uses the analogy of time travel in
reference to the gap in current educational practice. She
says that students step into a simulation of the 1980s each
time they enter the school and re-enter reality once they
step back on the bus. We can no longer afford to promote and
sustain the status quo; it is imperative that we transform
education because it is, morally, the right thing to do
(Sergiovanni, 1997).
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*The Big Idea gives meaning and connection
to knowledge, skills and understanding and is
derived from the syllabus outcomes.
*Guiding Questions are open-ended questions
designed to promote inquiry and explore the
Big Idea.
23. P10 Curriculum design – bringing
together the ‘what’ and the ‘how’
Our SRD, Australian Curriculum and the CLF connect to
achieve deep learning through quality teaching
FOUR CRITICAL QUESTIONS OF LEARNING
1. What should students know and be able to do?
2. How will we know that the students have learned it?
3. How will we structure learning experiences to
ensure students learn?
4. How will we respond when students do not learn it
or when they already know it?
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25. A rich curriculum (what we teach) and pedagogy (the art and
science of teaching and learning) that empowers the learner
What should students
know and be able to do?
CURRICULUM
How will we know
that the students
have learned it?How will we structure
learning experiences to
ensure students learn?
PEDAGOGY
How will we respond
when students do not
learn it or
when they already know
it?
26. Working together to design quality
learning and teaching
What should students know and be able to do?
CURRICULUM
Goals: What should students know, understand, and be able to do?
What BIG IDEAS are worthy of understanding and implied in the
established goals (outcomes, content)? What “enduring”
understandings are desired?
What ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS are worth pursuing to guide student
inquiry into these big ideas? What specific knowledge and skills are
targeted in the goals and needed for effective performance? (Learn to)
27. A rich curriculum:
• will prioritise what students are to know, understand, and be
able to do.
• some knowledge is essential
• some knowledge is important to know
• some knowledge is worth being familiar with.
Worth being familiar with
Important to know and
do
Big Ideas/Understandings
(Essential)
28. How will we know that the students have learned it?
How will we know if students have achieved the desired
results and met the outcomes of the curriculum, the
essential learnings?
How will we know that students really understand the
identified big ideas?
What will be accepted as evidence of learning to the
standards?
Assessment of, as and for learning
29. How will we structure learning experiences to
ensure students learn?
PEDAGOGY
The learning is planned with identified results and
appropriate evidence of understanding in mind.
What will be taught (curriculum).
How should it be taught best (pedagogy), in light of the
established goals?
What sequence best suits the desired results?
How will we make learning engaging and effective, given the
goals and evidence required?
30. How will we respond when students do not learn it or
when they already know it?
Are the tiers of intervention known and supported in the school?
What school wide interventions are in place?
How do we ensure individual students who need additional time and
support for learning receive timely and effective intervention to complete
the essential learnings?
How will we make learning challenging when students
know more than anticipated?
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32. Catholic Schools Office requirements for
programming:
Catholic Perspectives underpinned by the Foundation Beliefs and
Practices
Connections to the Contemporary Learning Framework
Integration of the 4 Critical Questions of Learning
- big Ideas/guiding questions, Inquiry & Project & Problem Based
learning
Adjustments, Differentiation
Literacy, Numeracy, SRD goals etc
Additional school elements that may be included are:
links with other Key Learning Areas – connections with other units
that complement or extend the learning
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Programming within a Contemporary Learning Process p11
Personal Response Table Response
a) How will you know that the students have
learned it, the essential content? (assessment-
for-of-as)
What contemporary assessment could you use?
What evidence do you need to see?
b) How would you structure learning experiences to
ensure students learn? (pedagogy-inquiry, problem,
project, skills) ie the art & science of teaching?
c) How will you or the faculty respond when
students do not learn it or when they already know
it? (interventions)
38. Each table select your top response
for each question please…
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*Working with our SRD, CLF we will continue to review & improve our
pedagogy eg Inquiry, Project, Problem Solving
*Planning for non AC after lunch, KLA Meetings.
*LOL planning for Term 4
*Focus on AC is 7 and 9 2014, 8/10 2015
*Focus for non AC is yr7 2014, yr7/8 2015, 7 to 10 2016
*AC for all KLAs should be completed by ACARA in December 2013.
*BOS will only review & implement other KLA’s on the BOS review
timetable
*CSO requirements will gradually come into all KLA’s
41. Learning Goal
*To discuss contemporary learning
*To explore the CSO model and pedagogy
Success Criteria
*To identify the key features of contemporary learning
*To reflect how pedagogy will progress for our KLA
Future Learning
*Discuss our KLA success as contemporary educators
*Planning areas for improvement in 2014
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“The purpose of 21st education is to provide students with a
set of critical skills that will be needed for success in a global
market
…specifically: creativity, collaboration, critical-thinking,
and communication.
In order to help our children develop these skills to a high
level, we must incorporate modalities that are relevant to
present times and also engage the student with instruction
techniques that facilitate learning (differentiation).
In other words, we need to put the student at the center of
the learning and allow them to create their own meaning
from experiences.
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/21st-century-
learning-is-not-a-program/
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Think what is contemporary learning? 30 sec 2. 15 words or less what is contemporary learning? 2min
90 sec with elbow partner
We have AC, CLF as models to help us develop and refresh contemporary learning
Table buddy 90 sec of sharing with each other
Journal reflection, 2minutes
Add your ideas to the faculty poster
We know the relationship between curriculum and pedagogy is fundamental to learning and is underpinned by the knowledge, skills and understandings that are judged to be important to learn. Curriculum Design – brings together the what and how of learning and teaching – what we want them to learn and how we want them to experience that learning through the pedagogy we use – learning experiences that are connected and meaningful to them. The professional and autonomous nature of teaching provides us the great scope to design a curriculum suited to the learners in our care. We place the learner at the centre and is the premise from which we start to design our curriculum – through the 4 critical questions of learning. This sharpened focus on the learner better places us to focus on student needs, abilities, interests and learning styles which places the teacher as an effective facilitator of learning.In the past, the introduction of new curriculum has traditionally focussed on the ‘what’ – this being the content of the new curriculum – we now know from numerous research studies (OECD 2008; 2011; TALIS 2007 etc) that the ‘how’ is important – how we engage learners in the learning – how we interest them in the learning in the first place, how we help them make sense of what they are exploring and developing understanding about and whether they see it as part of their lives or just ‘stuff’ you hear about.
A rich curriculum and the pedagogy empowers the learner. The four critical questions guide learning teams to focus on improving instructional practice in the classroom to focus our work on student learning to see that all children learn at high levels.The Curriculum Design process involves: thinking deeply about the intended learning for students and what they bring – their existing understandings, knowledge, skills, questions… doing this thinking together finding ways to connect the curriculum with their life experience designing learning experiences rich in assessment processes which both inform the teaching and students’ progressThe Curriculum Design process is the glue which brings together the CLF, pedagogy and the intended learning of the AC.Curriculum Design actively includes explicit teaching – it asks teachers to be thoughtful about when this is best conducted – at the point of need with learners, rather than teaching as a coverage approach (content). Some call this ‘just in time’ rather than ‘just in case’.
In order to explore “What should students know and be able to do” we need to acknowledge that not all knowledge is equal. When we consider the outcomes and content we consider that some knowledge is essential and enduring, some knowledge is important to know, and some knowledge is worth being familiar with. The following visual helps this understanding
Assessment for learning, assessment as learning and assessment of learning are approaches that can be used to gather evidence about student achievement and to improve student learning.The principles of assessment for learning and assessment as learning strategies have some common elements. Assessment for learning and assessment as learning incorporate:self-assessment and peer assessmentstrategies for students to actively monitor and evaluate their own learningfeedback, together with evidence, to help teachers and students decide whether students are ready for the next phase of learning or whether they need further learning experiences to consolidate their knowledge, understanding and skills.In a Learning team Common Assessment for Learning is created collaboratively by the learning team responsible for the group and administrated to all students in the course or year. Common Assessment for Learning is used frequently throughout the year to identify;Individual students who need additional time and support for learningThe teaching strategies most effective in helping students acquire the intended knowledge and skillsAreas in which students generally are having difficulty achieving the intended standard andImprovement goals for individual teachers and the team
Designing effective learning experiences requires selecting activities that develop students’ knowledge, understanding and skills, and provide opportunities for evidence of learning to be gathered. Methods of gathering evidence may include informal teacher observation, questioning, peer evaluation and self-evaluation, as well as more structured assessment activities.Programming is an important process in the teaching, learning and assessment cycle. It enables teachers to plan for the delivery of syllabus content and improve student learning outcomes. Programming is the process of selecting and sequencing learning experiences that cater for the diversity of student learning needs in a particular year and/or stage. The process of programming is shared in schools with the learning and offers an opportunity for collaboration, professional reflection and evaluation.
In a PLC, the learning team does not leave this question to individual teachers. Instead a school wide approach ensures that students receive additional time and support when required.The 3 tiers of intervention above ensure all students can achieve the identified essential learnings.
Curriculum design involvesThinking deeply about the intended learning for students as well as recognising what they already bring to their learningDoing this thinking together – year/stage levelFinding ways to connect the curriculum with the learnersDesigning learning experiences that are rich in assessment processes which inform the teaching and students’ progress
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