Gore Rural Information Technology Schools

Vision: Putting Effective Pedagogies into Practice

Effective Pedagogy

What is effective pedagogy for our classrooms in our schools?

N.Z. Curriculum – Effective Pedagogies

• Create a supportive learning environment• Encourage reflective thought and action• Enhance the relevance of new learning• Facilitate shared learning• Make connections to prior learning and

experience• Provide sufficient opportunities to learn• Inquire into the teaching-learning relationship

Effective Pedagogy??• Classroom Instructional Strategies• Classroom Management David• Classroom Curriculum Design Hargreaves

These three together comprise effective pedagogy

How does ICT fit in here?It is a series of tools which facilitates

teachers to more effectively provide greatteaching and learning!!

Activity: Diamond Ranking

Classroom Instruction that Works – Effect Size

Category Ave. Effect Size

Percentile Gain

# of Studies

Identify Similarities and differences 1.61 45 31

Summarizing and note taking 1.00 34 179

Reinforcing effort and providing recognition

0.80 29 21

Homework and practice 0.77 28 134

Nonlinguistic representation 0.75 27 246

Co-operative learning 0.73 27 122

Setting objectives and providing feedback

0.61 23 408

Generating and testing hypotheses 0.61 23 63

Questions, Cues and organizers 0.59 22 1251

From: Robert Marzano’s meta analysis of 35 years of research

How does ICT fit?1 Identifying similarities and differences - graphic organisers- venn diagrams/tcharts, Bloom’s – higher order, thinking skills

2 Summarizing and note taking - group using skrbl (online), kidspiration, inspiration

3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition - rubrics, certificates, online recognition – blogs, websites, create digital outlines etc, multiple intelligences

4. Homework and practice - online format – wikispace/website, computer programmes – practice e.g. times attack, spellcaster etc

5. Non-linguistic representations - G.O.’s, inspiration/kidspiration, Graphics-images, video – teacher tube etc, digital stories/analogies

6. Co-operative learning - online environments, skype, WEB 2.0 – interactive, computers – tools for sharing 7. Setting objectives and providing feedback - Data projectors – explicitly stated L.I.s & S.C.s. Online feedback – blogs, websites. Rubrics –

feedback,reflections

8. Generating and testing hypothesis - online inquiry, spidermonkey-collating data, excel-graphs, word or PowerPoint to publish

9. Questioning, cues and organisers - questioning skills, G.O.’s

Why Pedagogy?Consider the following statements and

where you would sit on a continuum?

1. “What I teach is more important than how I teach”

2. “We have always had successful students so we don’t need to change how we teach”

3. “My students’ behaviour limits my teaching approaches”

4. “Students have the greatest responsibility for their own learning”

Where are you now?

Classroomapplication

TeacherICT skills

Personal ICT Skills

Aware ofICT

YOU

Cluster Progress…Awareness of

ICTPersonal ICT Teacher ICT Classroom

Application•Knows about different software & hardware•Don’t currently use ICT tools unless you have too.•Core Values don’t acknowledge the merits of ICT•Not familiar with computers or other common tools

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•Able to use some software for personal use•Uses some ICT tools for personal use e.g. camera, video, scanner•Core Values - Knows the merits of ICT but still unsure•Familiar with computers for personal use only

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• Able to use software to enhance learning•Uses ICT skills in some classroom contexts•Core Values – ICT to enhance teaching and learning opportunities•Using computers in teacher contexts e.g. planning, assessment, skills

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•Targets software to meet learning needs•Facilitates students ICT skills in every appropriate context•Core Values – ICT is a necessity – we deprive students if we don’t•Confidently tries new ICT tools in classroom programme

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Where do you fit best, where does your school and teachers fit?

Student AchievementSchool/Teacher Average Final

Average school, average teacher 50

Least effective school, least effective teacher 50

Most effective school, least effective teacher 50

Most effective school, most effective teacher 50

Least effective school, most effective teacher 50

Most effective school, average teacher 50

Your school: 50

Student AchievementSchool/Teacher Average Final

Average school, average teacher 50 50

Least effective school, least effective teacher 50 3

Most effective school, least effective teacher 50 37

Most effective school, most effective teacher 50 96

Least effective school, most effective teacher 50 63

Most effective school, average teacher 50 78

Your school: 50

How can we continue to have effective schools filled with effective teachers??

The Cluster can help with this by: