PBAS Student Free Day – Friday 17th May
This post is for PBAS staff with regards to the student free day to be held on Friday of week 3, term 2 at PBAS. This day will be focusing on Learning Design and Comprehension (questioning &...
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Having looked at Learning Design earlier this year it is important that we continue to work with, explore and discuss this process as a staff. My intention is to have 15-20 minute spotlights regularly...
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Assessment For, As and Of Learning
Box four in the Learning Design Framework asks us to consider: What evidence will enable us to assess the intended learning? To do this effectively we need to have a solid understanding of different...
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Revisiting Learning Design
I thought I would take some time to revisit Learning Design. Our teaching lives are complex and time poor but it is important to stop sometimes and reflect back on things we have learnt and attempted...
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Revisiting Learning Design – What is the intended learning?
Here is the first poster in the ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. Understanding what we are required to teach using the Australian Curriculum is important. What is more important is how we...
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Revisiting Learning Design – What do they bring?
Here is the second poster in my ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. Understanding what our students bring in terms of understandings, beliefs, misconceptions, prior knowledge etc is...
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Revisiting Learning Design – What does the intended learning look like?
As teachers we need to have a clear understanding of what quality learning for any particular task looks like. We then need to be able to communicate this with our students. Using the Australian...
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Revisiting Learning Design – What evidence will enable us to assess the...
Designing assessment tasks that will allow students to address the Achievement Standards and content descriptors at an ‘A’ level is important. If we only ever produce tasks that allow for a...
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Revisiting Learning Design – How do we engage, challenge and support student...
Engagement could be described in two ways, compliance engagement and deep engagement. According to David Price (Learning Futures Engaging Students, 2010) deep engagement encompasses the following: •...
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Revisiting Learning Design – Design the teaching and learning plan
This is the final post in the ‘Revisiting Learning Design’ series of posts. I hope that they have at least prompted you to think about aspects of Learning Design and how they are applied to your...
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Learning Design – What do my students already know?
Tanya has very kindly allowed me to share her classroom observation which occurred in week 3. Tanya’s focus is around Finding out what students already know. This closely links with the Learning Design...
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PBAS Professional Learning Community
At the beginning of the year a decision was made to use some staff meeting time (twice a term) to have professional discussions. These discussions would be teacher led and require the sharing of...
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Planning for assessment of and for student learning
How we design our assessment tasks determines the quality of information we get back from our students. In turn, this impacts on how well we can then move our students forward and assess and report on...
View ArticleReflecting on practice 3: Learning Design
If you are keen to have this document alongside you as you plan your programs for 2017 then click here. Download the PDF which gives detailed explanations for each of the six areas mentioned in the...
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