EDFD177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Numeracy, Emotion Classification, Work Ethic

EDFD177 Lecture Notes Friday 25th May 2018
Agenda/Topics to be covered
- Productive classroom environments
- Assessment – what and how?
- The role of parents
- Being a reflective teacher
- Milestones of development
- Collaborative learning/peer learning
- Theories and equity
Productive Learning Environments
- Developmentally enriching schools provide:
o Sense of community
o Organisation
o Classroom management/Behaviour management
▪ Some children like discipline
o Planning spaces for learning
o Affirmative socialisation messages
o Sensitivity to developmental transition
o Positive role models
Sense of Community
- One of the biggest protective factors
- Classroom climate
- Instructional methods
- School traditions
o Makes people feel like they belong
- Assessment
o Appealing
Assessets many purposes
- To find out what people know
- To find out how we should teach
- For government
o Not good assessets, dot aout for learig differees
- Funding requires assessment to indicate how schools are meeting benchmarks
- Alays thik aout hy youre assessig, hat youre assessig ad if the
assessment is suitable
Assessments
- High stakes assessment
o Government
o NAPLAN
▪ Results encourage competitiveness and can increase house value in
the area
- Summative
o At the end
o Can provide knowledge of what people know, but cannot be used to evaluate
teaching methods
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- Formative
o Best kind. Gives indicators at every point in the course
- Classroom
- Individual
- Psychological
- Group
Examples of High Stakes
- Years 3,5,7, and 9
- Schools tend to teach towards the test
- Isolates a skill – the orst ay to teah as it doest get geeralised.
o Unable to use skill in single setting
Teahers eed to…
- Prepare to be accountable for your decisions
o Need to be able to explain to someone else
- Be strong enough to negotiate with learners
- Need to be able to explain results to parents and learners when necessary
Educative Assessment
- Good assessment – used for improvement of curriculum, our teaching, and their
learning
o Giving good feedback
- Assessment supports learning of all people
o Parents, learners, and teachers
- Lets the ko hat theyre eig assessed o
- Portfolio assessment
o Series of samples that show progression in learning
o Allows the gathering of samples that show improvement rather than a single
test on a single day
o Interactive
- Performance assessment
- Project assessment
Digital portfolios
- Digital portfolios are a way of capturing AUTHENTIC material and include:
o Multimedia presentation of evidence of achievement
o Ca e stored o laptop oputers, ZIP disks, CDs, USBs or plaed o a web
server for access by a wide audience
- Documentation and storage
- Portfolio as a workspace
- Presentation and showcase
- About process and product
- Allows children to take ownership if their learning
The Influence of Parents
- Parents need to feel welcomed
- Entitled to know about how their child is learning academically and socially
- Honest and open communication
- Parents can help set goals for their students
Reporting to Parents
- Student led conferences
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Document Summary
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