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Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.edu.au. Year 10 History class – Caringbah High School. Action Learning Project. 11 schools engaged in Action Learning Projects. Over 80 teachers involved. In-school DER Leaders.
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Lena Arena Project Coordinator, DER Sydney Region Carmelina.arena@det.nsw.edu.au
Action Learning Project 11 schools engaged in Action Learning Projects Over 80 teachers involved
In-school DER Leaders 13 schools with in-school DER Curriculum Leaders Over 18 in-school DER Curriculum Leaders
Newton’s Laws Explained using Flash Animation – Kingsgrove High School
Kingsgrove High School • Year 10 Science class • Using Flash to explain newton’s laws. • Year 11 Studies of Religion • Audacity and Premiere Elements – major project
Student Engagement Student Learning – Student Work Samples
Curriculum Content Innovative use of Technology
Caringbah High School • Faculty based teams – teacher mentors trained • History/English Year 10 class: • Edmodo (communication within class and with a school outside the region) • Glogster – posters • Dreamweaver – websites (Australia and the wars) • Freemind – mind mapping • Audacity – record narration • Premiere Elements – video editing
Caringbah High School • Creating and filming documentaries • Weekly VC’s with Macquarie University • Use of LAMS by students to create their own learning pathway
New ways of learning Year 10 History work samples - websites
FOCUS on Teaching & Learning Cross faculty Rich Assessment Task – ICT skills assessed Teachers teach their subject content and give regular meaningful feedback on progress throughout the unit. Skills Teachers assess their own subject outcomes and explicit feedback through the marking rubric ICT skills assessed
Penshurst Girls’ High School • All Year 9 History task • Original task adapted to include use of technology and DER netbooks • The Depression – students use webcam to video their speech about life in the Depression • Student engagement in task – even students who usually not engaged in completing tasks • Quality of student work very pleasing
Penshurst Girls’ High School • Adobe Portfolio distributed to students • Task • Task scaffold • Instructional videos on use of webcam • Marking criteria • Teacher created work sample
More examples • Lucas Heights Community School • Mentoring by in-school DER leader • Cross faculty • Teachers developing KLA specific classroom resources • Menai High School • All Year 9 multi-media assessment task - Sustainability – open ended task • Use of Edmodo, blogEd, Audacity, OnenOte, Premiere Elements
More Examples • Dulwich High School of Visual Arts and Design • Team of mentors • Allocated professional learning afternoons • Choice of content • Beginner group • Sharing experiences/resources at end of program
Teacher Professional Learning DER Specific 4 Day Project Software Skills Workshops
The future? • Funding to support DER until the end of 2012 • Sydney Region will be funded to provide support till the end of 2012 • Funding available to schools for DER related projects in the next financial year.