CHPS PL NEWS
Term 2 Weeks 7 & 8
Week 7
9am - 11am - Assessment for Learning - Green
9:30am - 11:30am - NCCD 2016 Update - Ringrose - Kali
11:20am - 1pm - Assessment for Learning - Yellow
1pm - 3pm - LS Network Meeting - Ringrose - Kali & Ellen
Tuesday 7.6.16
3:30pm - 6:30pm - Twilight Session - All Staff
Wednesday 8.6.16
10am - 11am - LMBR: Schools Kick Off - Elle, Ann, Susan, Tracey
3:05pm - 3:30pm - PBL - All staff - Staffroom
Thursday 9.6.16
8:15am - 8:55am - TPL - Literacy & Maths Policies - All staff
3:05pm - 6pm - Autism Course - Lab - Kali, Ellen, Cindy, Cathie, Samantha, Betty, Lisa, Amanda, Heidi, Nava, Jenny, Sally
4pm - 5:30pm - Ringrose ECT Meeting - Seeking Accreditation at Proficient - Sok Lin, Stephanie, Elishwa, May, Gloria, Sandra, Lilas and various other teachers - Hall
Friday 10.6.16
All Day - Sally, Juliet, Lidia - L3 RFF Catch Up
12pm - 3pm - Teaching English Language Learners - Manjula & Georgia
Week 8
Queens Birthday
Tuesday 14.6.16
Wednesday 15.6.16
2:30pm - 5:30pm - PBL Teach Meet - Kali, Juliet, Sally, Amanda, Morrie
Thursday 16.6.16
8:15am - 8:55am - TPL - Geography Syllabus - ALL Staff
1:30pm - 3:30pm - L3 - Sally, Kali, Juliet & Lidia
3:10pm - 4pm - ECT Workshop - Using Concrete Materials in Mathematics
Friday 17.6.16
Reflecting on the APSTs
Focus Area 3.2 - Plan, Structure and Sequence learning programs
Strategies for improving professional practice
* trying to seize on major opportunities to enhance learning by building on student interests or spontaneous events
* identifying potential content or activity challenges in a lesson and designing an alternative lesson to address these
* inviting students to connect to spontaneous teachable moment to the lesson's original goals
* regularly prompting your students for their interests that relate to the lesson content.
Focus Area 3.3 - Use teaching strategies
Maximum student learning in the classroom is evident when a lesson is carefully designed with specific teaching strategies and activities. Students can be engaged in so many ways, and there are just so many different types of teaching strategies available today that the choice is really up to you.
Strategies for improving Professional Practice
* presenting students with opportunities for high level thinking suitable for the range of students in the class
* incorporating strategies that engage students, making the content relevant to students' lives
* using flexible grouping strategies, including whole-class learning, pairs, triads, student-selected or teacher-selected groupings
* inviting student input in designing project or assessment requirements
Food for thought
* How do you demonstrate to students how to do a task or project and provide them examples of finished products?