Effective Teaching

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  • Episode 132 - Time to set goals

    It's time to round up the year, reflect and set goals. This is the last episode for the year. I look forward to talking with you in 2023.

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    1. Reflect on your year. Gather some evidence (survey your kids, ask others to give feedback, use some sort of criteria such as the teaching standards in AUS)
    2. Identify how you will use your strengths to help others around you. Maybe volunteer to run some PD at school, for your teachers association, or your local network.
    3. Identify how you plan on improving your weaknesses. What books will you read? Who do you know whom you can learn form? Can you find some focused PL such as a workshop, online course or something that will help you strengthen this area.
      4. 10 min
    4. Episode 131 - The joy of regular short breaks

      Discover the joy that comes with lots of short breaks, both for you and your students. There are plenty of great benefits.

      Research indicates that multiple 5 min breaks are better than a larger single break. so…

      • Give students regular short breaks… every 45-90 min provide 5 min (used to do brain breaks at SEDA)
      • Give yourself regular short breaks… time them and don’t allow them to interrupt your flow.
      • If you are scheduling meetings make them 25 or 50 min instead of 30 and 1 hr so incorporate some form of a break between activities.

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        9 min
      • Episode 129 - Controlling the Chaos with Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman

        Dan interviews Stephanie Howell and Tara Ruckman to discuss their new #1 Amazon best-selling book "Control the Choas". Discover how you can help control your blended classroom by developing student executive skills.

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        Get a copy of the book Control the Chaos: What it takes to create order in the classroom and teach executive functioning skills on Amazon AU

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        *The transcript below is automated and may have some errors

        34 min
      • Episode 128 - Saving time with this simple hack

        Discover how to save time as you write your reports and mark tasks with this simple hack

         

        • Parkinson's law - work expands to fulfil the time allowed for its completion.
        • We prioritise and get work done by their due dates eg) report writing or mark submissions
        • We can benefit from this by creating our own deadlines etc to get things complete.
        • Simple as doing the task in a shorter time limit than normal.
        • Eg) mark papers in 2 hrs instead of allowing yourself all night. Set a timer. It helps you focus and do a single task at a time. OR plan your lesson in 40 min instead of an hour. If things don't have deadlines or time limits they expand massively. 
        • You see it in the classroom as well. If you give kids 5 or 10 min to get something done with a visible timer they are better at keeping on task, but if you just ask them to get it done that lesson they get distracted until the end when you might say it has to be done before they can leave…. 
        • Take advantage of this simple hack and set timers for your tasks and then stick to them. It may not always work in terms of being finished, especially when you push yourself, but it will always speed you up.
          • 11 min
        • Episode 127 - Mastery Learning with Jon Bergmann

          I really enjoyed interviewing Jon Bergmann (flipped learning pioneer and author of multiple books including recently "The Mastery Learning Handbook". Here Jon lays out what mastery learning is, how to plan for it, and how to manage it in the classroom.

          Jon Bergmann

          Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Class Movement. He has coordinated and guided Flipped Learning programs around the globe. He is the author of ten books, including the bestselling book Flip Your Classroom, which has been translated into 10 languages as well as his recently released Amazon best seller The Mastery Learning Handbook.

          Jon Bergmann has been an educator since 1986. He has served as a middle and high school science teacher, lead technology facilitator, consultant/public speaker, and is now back in the classroom working with his amazing students.

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          Please note the transcript is automated.

          29 min
        • Episode 126 - Explicit teaching with Brendan Lee

          In this interview with Brendan Lee (former Assistant Principal and classroom teacher in both primary school and high school) Dan and Brendan discuss explicit instruction. Brendan explains exactly what explicit instruction is and isn't before we go on to explain when it should be used.

           

          Here are some links
          Barak Rosenshine’s original Principles of Instruction
          Rosenshine's Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington
          Blog article from Tom Sherrington Exploring Barak Rosenshine’s seminal Principles of Instruction: Why it is THE must-read for all teachers.
           
          Hollingsworth and Ybarra's Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI): The Power of the Well-Crafted, Well-Taught Lesson
           
          If you want to get into the Science of Learning more, here are some good overviews:
          • Ambition Institute: LEARNING: WHAT IS IT, AND HOW MIGHT WE CATALYSE IT? - provides a coherent, high-level overview of the domain – organised around nine insights, with a taste of what the implications of these insights are for our classrooms.
          • Deans for Impact: The Science of Learning - The purpose of The Science of Learning is to summarize the existing research from cognitive science related to how students learn, and connect this research to its practical implications for teaching and learning
          • Ambition Institute: The Learning Curriculum 3.0 - This handbook is targeted at teacher educators as a guide to help explain the science of learning to teachers.
            • 33 min
          • Episode 125 - 5 fun ways to engage your students at the beginning of your lesson

            These 5 ideas will help you stand out from other lessons to classes and get your students engaged in learning right from the beginning.

            Notes

            Purple cow classroom.  

            Lessons are all the same and can get boring… be the different teacher

            1. Create a new world 
              1. Decorations
              2. Dress up
              3. Start with the problem and don't provide solutions
              4. Use music to set the tone for the lesson (eye of the tiger, Chopin or something) entering, exiting, transitions, 
              5. Start with something fun and exciting eg) make something from balloons, get some craft stuff and set a challenge bonus points if a struggling student will be successful
              6. Give some out-of-this-world rules to change things up… eg) have to put a hand on your nose all lesson, if you have a question you sit down on the ground instead of raising your hand…
                7. 13 min

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