Mathematics for disengaged students
In her new video series on Making Maths fun, Mathematics teacher Holly Millican shares the top three strategies she uses in her classroom with some of her most disengaged students. Millican says that when she comes into the classroom, she tends to see disengaged students in one of three categories: those that genuinely don’t understand the mathematics, those who don’t see the value of mathematics, and those that have things that are more important so they’re distracted. She outlines three strategies that she’s found to re-engage those students. The first is by using hands-on activities like a giant dice. ‘They’re so good because you can use them for heaps of different maths activities, from adding to subtracting, to multiplying, to algebra.’ The second strategy is to implement alternate seating in the classroom.
5 ways to get disengaged students excited about learning
Reading Time: 5 minutes Overcoming disengagement in the classroom is a challenge all teachers are familiar with. In this blog we’ll explore how you can get disengaged students back on track.
Key considerations to teaching In My Blood It Runs - In My Blood It Runs - ABC Education -
In My Blood It Runs is a critically acclaimed documentary following 10-year-old Arrernte and Garrwa boy, Dujuan Hoosan, and his family. The film reveals the challenges Dujuan faces both in his school and on the streets of Alice Springs, and it tackles the impacts of Australia’s colonial history on children while showing the power of agency resting with families and communities. In My Blood It Runs encourages educators to engage in learning and reflection, which may involve a process of “unlearning” and “relearning” — challenging assumptions and recognising that what was previously taught in schools about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures has often been inaccurate, incomplete or told through a deficit perspective. In many ways, the events and issues explored in the film are reflective of wider structural or systemic issues. Curriculum-mapped classroom resources Create a safe environment for studying the film
Discover the Benefits of Picture Books for Older Readers
Listening to a picture book read-aloud benefits children of all ages. They can concentrate on comprehension, inference and predicting what will happen next while someone else carries the reading load. Share a book on an interactive whiteboard, if you can. This allows the whole class to engage with the book in their own way. Presenting the book gives each student the time to process the story along with the imagery.
Scaling effective practices in schools
Making a real difference to student outcomes is every educators’ aspiration but it is really difficult work. If we are to scale and sustain good practices to benefit more students, then we want to know whether these practices work so schools and systems can use the results to inform decisions to improve, further expand, or cut the program. For the past four years, Evidence for Learning (E4L)’s Learning Impact Fund has used an innovative model to fund and run four independent evaluations of promising programs aiming to improve academic outcomes for students (with a special focus on children from vulnerable backgrounds). There have been three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and one pilot study. E4L has also developed a seven-step approach to evaluate a program’s effectiveness, which is based on the UK Early Intervention Foundation’s ‘10 steps for evaluation success’.
The Power of Making Thinking Visible: Practices to Engage and Empower All Learners: Ritchhart, Ron, Church, Mark: Amazon.com.au: Books
"The authors offer a powerful vision of learning wedded to a clear and actionable framework. But, best of all, they bring the nuts and bolts of teaching to life with dozens of pictures of practices drawn from teachers and learners around the world." —David Perkins, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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MY bookshelf Here are my top ten books for consolidating your understanding of the science behind the Learning Power Approach. David Perkins, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence.
Digitalizing Gallery Walks: A Method for Student-Centered Feedback and Engagement - Teaching Online Pedagogical Repository
Tags: Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Connectivism, Gallery Walk, Instructor Presence, Interaction, Learning Presence, Social Presence Description Traditional gallery walks let students stroll through the classroom viewing their peers’ work, which is often set up on the top of their desks. At its heart, a gallery walk is an interactive, discussion technique where students move around the room, actively analyze information, and provide peers with feedback about their work (Fasse & Kolodner, 2000; Francek, 2006; Gooding & Metz, 2011). Similar to their namesake in the art world, a gallery walk can display any student learning artifact, ranging from visuals made on poster boards to research reports and 3D models.
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