Innovating Classrooms

Jen & Louise talk about the process they use called Skills Block. This time is allocated to specific skill building.

The idea came from EL Education.

Jen & Louise reflect on teaching gifted and talented students in our model, and the ways we've used our model to support these students.

Jen and Louise finish off their discussion on Rosenshine's principles of instruction (see Ep 27 for the first part). Also, apologies for the radio silence last week!

Rosenshine's work is here.

Jen & Louise are back to discuss how their teaching aligns with Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction, including what they still need to work on!

You can find Rosenshine's paper here: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ971753.pdf 

Jen & Louise look back at a year of using a blended, self-paced, mastery-based model and reflect on their favourite things.

Jen and Louise talk about how they approach grading and how the model supports more authentic and fair grades for students.

Jen and Louise join special guest Aimee to discuss  how we support the development of the critical thinking skills our students will need in their futures. 

Mentioned in this episode: https://www.acer.org/au/discover/article/teaching-and-assessing-21st-century-skills

Jen and Louise discuss how their students collaborate in their blended learning environment.

Jen and Louise talk about how and why they use instructional videos in their blended learning environment.