2 nd PD SESSION @ BEACON 13 March 2013

1. 2nd PD SESSION@ BEACON13 March 2013

2. What you said … • Group 1 : The magic is in you. However, an extraordinary magician is inventive and creative. This magician uses the unique environment to make magic truly magical. • Group 2 : One way is to have a transference of the love and passion of the subject to your pupils when you show it in your class. • Group 3 : With good planning, we can reduce the factors that hinder engagement, especially the internal factors • Group 4 : ... Create novelty in excitement. • Group 5 : We also learnt that while there are external factors which may affect pupils’ engagement, it is more important for us to work on the internal factors which is within our control.

3. Group 6 : ...Many use music or videos that serve as tuning in but if these are not carefully chosen, they would only serve to gain the attention of the students rather than serving as a gateway to engagement with can result in the occurance of learning. ... ... However, IT needs to be looked upon as more of a tool to facilitate and encourage learning rather than being a tool to activate engagement alone. Perhaps this is where a Future school differs in how we see effective IT integration into daily lessons. • Group 7 : Passion is contagious. Spread it to the children. • Group 8 : All the pictures depict differentiated learning. It allows us to see that through nature, we can see a diverse range of engaged learning... .... Fun lesson may not equate to an enriching lesson.

4. Engagement • Can be understood as an overall motivation to learn • Research has shown that student engagement is important to student learning • 3 types of engagement: • affective (emotion towards learning) • behavioural • cognitive

5. Attributes of Engaged Learners 1) Affective • on task • Intrinsically motivated 2) Behavourial • eager to respond • follow instructions • exhibit positive conduct 3) Cognitive • ask questions to clarify • share thoughts/ideas • give feedback • focus on topic or lesson objectives • able to make connections with the LOs • able to reflect on their learning

6. Attributes of Engaged Learners Students • eager to respond • ask questions to clarify • able to share thoughts • give feedback • on task • focus on topic or lesson objectives • able to make connections with the Los • give ideas • able to reflect on their learning

7. What impedes engaged learning • Difficulty of tasks • Distraction • Inappropriate duration • Inappropriate resources • Inappropriate venue • Unclear instruction • Health issues / Sleepiness / Hunger • Unmotivated / uninterested • Technology hiccups • External issues

8. PETALS

9. Objectives • Understand the PETALS framework • Take stock of what we are doing • Identify gaps between desired outcomes and our current reality • Identify ways to bridge this gap

10. Expert Group Each group will be assigned one area. Share/ discuss/ ideas/ thoughts Capture important points in Google form (assign a scriber) Group sharing (assign presenter)

11. P1 & CL 1: Pedagogy

12. P2 & CL 2:Experience of Learning

13. P3 & CL3: Tone of Environment

14. P4 & TL: Assessment

15. P5: Learning Content

16. P6: Student-Centredness

17. Capturing sharing

18. Task Before reading Sharing of what you know about PETALS

19. Task During reading – Desired Outcomes Jot down new learning Think of your own teaching practices in relation to PETALS Are we in line?? Cite examples

20. Task After reading – Current Reality Think of the gaps. (Is it pervasive??) How/ What now??? How ICT come into play??

21. Think of an ICT-based lesson that you have conducted or observed. Then explain how you think it fits into the PETALS framework.

23. ingredients preparation presentation COOKing

25. Guiding Principles of ICT lesson • Lesson Content • What do you want students to be able to know and do? • What thinking skills are involved in your lesson? • What are the instructional strategies used in the lesson? • What is the value of the technology used and how does it support the learning process • How do you know learning is occurring?

26. Guiding Principles of ICT lesson • What ICT skills are involved in your lesson? • What Global Age Digital Skills are being elicited from students in your lesson? • Creativity and Innovation • Communication and Collaboration • Research & Information Fluency • Critical Thinking, Problem Solving & Decision Making • Digital Citizenship Thinking skills & Digital Age Skills

27. Guiding Principles of ICT lesson • Collaborative Learning (CoL) • Elements:  • Negotiate and set common goals • Provide constructive feedback • Take different roles to achieve group goals • Reflect on group and individual learning processes • Work towards completing individual tasks as well as assist the group in achieving the group goal. • Self-directed Learning (SDL)Elements: • Students explore alternatives and make their own decisions • Students formulate questions and generate their own inquiries • Students plan and manage their workload efficiently • Students reflect on their learning and use feedback provided to improve their work • Students apply their learning in new contexts • Students learn beyond the curriculum

28. Designing a Graphic Stimulus

29. Objectives • to match graphics and phrases to theme • to identify salient points in a poster • to use questioning techniques – 5W1H template

30. Guiding Principles of ICT • creativity & innovation • communication & collaboration • research & information fluency • critical thinking

31. Engaged learning is made possible when we • select Pedagogy that considers students’ readiness to learn and their learning styles • design an Experience of Learning that stretches thinking, promotes inter-connectedness and develops independent learning; • create a Tone of Environment that is safe, stimulating and which engenders trust; • adopt Assessment practices that provide information on how well students have performed and provide timely feedback to improve learning • select relevant and meaningful Learning Content that • makes learning authentic for the students.

32. FutureSchools@Singapore • aims to equip our pupils holistically with the essential skills to be effective workers and citizens in the globalised and digital workplace of the future • experiment, on a school-wide scale, with various innovative ICT/IDM-enabled pedagogical approaches for supporting high levels of engaged learning and provide possible models for the seamless and pervasive integration of ICT

33. Beacon Primary Our Mission “Nurture and Inspire our learners to the best of their potential through innovative approaches in an engaging environment, leveraging on Technologies and research Our vision A gracious community of active and creative learners who are global in outlook, grounded in basics, and rooted in values, with a passion to envision for the future