Workshop 2 content

1. Lena Arena

2. 21st Century Learning – Teachers in Action
Review of Workshop 1 and homework
Tech Focus Time
Reviewing Learning Activities using the Learning
Activity Checklist
Lesson Improvement Activities
8:30-9:00
9-10
10-10:30
11-1
1:30-2:30

3. 1. Your Peer Coaching Plan
2. Planning your coaching

4. All participants will
learn new digital
pedagogy strategies
via the sharing of web
tools and software
with each other. Your Tool
What?
How?
When
?
Why?

6. Teachers in Action
http://bit.ly/tiamaths

7. • Complete a PMI (Positive, Minus, Interesting) on the
video, considering 21st Century Skills and what you
have learnt from contemporary learning theories.

9. A well-prepared coach can:
 Help collaborating teachers improve
their lessons using a common definition
of effective lesson design.
 Use communications skills that
encourage the collaborating teacher to
think more deeply about adopting new
approaches that meet the needs of
students to improve learning.
 Recommend content resources or suggest
instructional strategies to improve
learning activities.
 Assist other teachers to understand how
technology can enrich and enhance
learning.
What are the characteristics of
learning activities that will equip
students with the skills and
competencies they will need for
continuing success?
What do coaches need to know and
be able to do to support teachers’
needs?

10. As a coach, you will provide instructional
support to teachers as they learn how to
enhance student learning by integrating
technology. To do this, it is critical for you
to be able to answer several questions:
1. What does it mean to enhance learning
with technology?
2. How can technology be integrated into
the curriculum to help achieve academic
standards?
3. What are the principles of effective
lesson design?
This is a generic document that can be
modified. What are the components of
the Standards-Based task? What are
the mandatory documents that shape
our work in New South Wales?
What would you add here to ensure
that the learning meets our
requirements?
What would you remove or refine?

12. • Review the sample lesson, Pollution in River Yamuna.
Look for evidence of how the learning activity reflects
each of the four areas represented on the Learning
Activity Checklist. Provide suggestions on how to
improve areas you believe could be improved.
• Use the Assess Lesson Design Template to document your
review.
• The Assess Lesson Design Template asked you to find
evidence of how the learning activity reflects attributes
of the Learning Activity Checklist. Why is it important
for you to start with this evidence as you provide
feedback to teachers on their learning activities?

13. Being ready to cope
with differences of
opinion—what we
are calling Using
Conflict as a
Resource—is an
important skill for
coaches to have.
Final Word
Protocol
What?
Share
Reflect
Why?

15. What you will need:
1. Communication Cue
Card
2. Lesson Improvement
Template
3. Lesson Activity Checklist
The Process:
• Work in pairs
• Review a lesson – coach uses
Communication Cue Card
and Lesson Activity
Checklist
• Teachers improves lessons
using Lesson Improvement
Template as a guide

16. Next Workshop: Monday 24 June 2013