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Purpose

Purpose. - Reduce between-class variation - Build a more collaborative professional culture - Personalise learning - Respond to Middle-Year survey results - Incorporate i nternational research - Deepen student understanding around broad concepts.

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  1. Purpose - Reduce between-class variation - Build a more collaborative professional culture - Personalise learning - Respond to Middle-Year survey results - Incorporate international research - Deepen student understanding around broad concepts

  2. ‘A Community of Thinking’YoramHarpaz& Adam Lefstein(2004) Thinking is multi-faceted: • Social • Conceptual • Linguistic • Emotional • Motivational • Physical

  3. Fertile questions are crucial issues students grapple with.They can be….- open (no definitive answers)- undermining (casts doubt on the self-evident)- connected (to their lives and experiences)- charged (contain an ethical dimension)

  4. Teachers’ Role • Understand & identify skills, knowledge, habits of mind • Plan for engagement by preparing learning tools, resources & stimuli • Ask questions that encourage divergent thinking that leads to morequestions • Explore learners’ misconceptions • Ask ‘why’, ‘how’, ‘should’ & ‘would’ questions

  5. Students’ Role • View themselves as learners • Willingly engage in explorative learning • Plan and carry out learning activities • Communicate using a variety of methods • Develop a process of self assessment/critique

  6. Assessment Introduction & immersion– student learning journals Inquiry & action – observation of groups in action, blogs, self-reflection Performance of understanding & reflection – focuses on presentations

  7. Helpful Question Prompts for Mid Cycle Conversation • What is your basicquestion? • How have you gone about researching your question? What resources have you used? • Did you work together to decide or did you each come to the table with a question? • Do you have GANTT chart? How do you decide what you are doing each lesson? • Have you had any disagreements? If you have how did you resolve them? • Have you read through each other’s work and made constructive criticisms?

  8. VELS -Victorian Essential Learning StandardsPhysical, Personal and Social Learning- Interpersonal development - Personal learningDiscipline-based Learning - The Arts, English, Maths, Science etcInterdisciplinary Learning- Investigating, designing, communication, ICT, thinking

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