Today was the first session of a year long series of training and meetings for the Productive Pedagogies Project. I want to start blogging this because I feel it could be a great project to be involved in.
Focus:
It appears to want to develop "something" that will identify and support quality teaching. We need to know what quality teaching looks like.
This project is part of a new cycle of funding from the Federal Government with aims to develop cross-sectional programs aimed at improving teacher quality. It also stems from the needs that have come from schools in the area of: what is my understanding of a good teacher across the board but also in specific teaching areas. Research suggests that a major factor in improving learning is the teacher.
Aim:
Work towards a "thing" which will provide support to analyse and help teaching.
Build our capacity as a organisation to have leaders which will support training in this area.
Will use Queensland version of this to help reflect on our notion of good teaching.
Will involve action research project which will involve mentors to help refocus the research.
Intensive training days will be held in the first week back for three days.
Includes: Edgar Bliss - Senior Education Advisor for CEO; Ian Smyth - Executive Director Council for Education Associations in SA (CEASA); Margot Foster - Manager Learning to Learn project in Education Department.
Some ideas I have about the project is:
* Find out details about how an action project is supposed to work, what are the essential elements of such a project.
* Must involve statistics - revisit this idea at school.
* Could link in with the Quality school concept and other aspects of Choice Theory.
* Must also involve middle school ideas - this will be the experimental area.
* Use Values education stuff from Julia Atkin
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