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The Teaching & Learning Smoothie:

Reflections on BLENDING different

ingredients to maximise engagement and

learning

!Paschal McCarthy, Mandurah Catholic College

Louise Cimetta, Catholic Education Office of Western Australia!

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Short, sharp PD !

No travel !

Cost saving for relief !

Focussed agenda items

Not face to face !

Technical assistance to get started

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Internet speed needs to be spot on

Opportunities for admin staff

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Networking

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Great for content rich subjects

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Growing Independent learners - strategic plan

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Less wastage of time for high achievers

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Increase practical/hands on University fall out for private

schools

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Teachers need to understand the philosophy

behind it !

Teachers need to persist personally

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Students need to understand the “why of

flipped learning”

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Caters more for high achievers than low achievers

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Comfort in traditional learning practices

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Students like some freedom

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Seen an improvement in results

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More independent !

More focussed less distraction

The Teachers - will it work?

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How can they learn with out me?

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Convincing parents - not as hard as I thought

Opportunities in more subjects

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Teacher attitudes to disengaged students

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Can we take this to scale?

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A portal to house the resources

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Quick access for students

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Access for parents !

Online=professionalism

Imbalance in volume of content

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Impetus for digital learning

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Colleague Pressure !

Student expectations

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Another communication tool !

Quiet students like it !

Different means to getting the information across

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Students can be involved or not !

Assessment - students get marked on comments

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Digital citizenship - ground rules

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The ones not involved still pick up tips

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Building on the ideas of others

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Assist with career counseling

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Course selection process

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Engagement with learning

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Access to experts

Scheduling

Alternative to in-school teacher appraisal

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Louise Cimetta cimetta.louise@ceo.wa.edu.au http://about.me/loucimetta Twitter: @loucimetta

Paschal McCarthy mccarthy.paschal@cathednet.wa.edu.au Twitter: @paschalmccarthy

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