Whole School Planning

Lecturer: Pete Sanders

Week 11: 19 July 2010

EDU4PIB – Issues in Education

Today’s lecture

• Major Assignment

• Minor Assignment

• Whole School Planning

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Major Assignment

Classroom Management Essay

• 1750 words

• Due Date: 1 October 2010

• Value: 70%Write an essay that articulates your evolving stance

regarding managing your future classroom. Your essay should include both your theoretical and practical approach to classroom management, and include some reflective discussion of your own classroom experience and your evolving approach.

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Major Assignment

Classroom Management Essay At least two theorists on classroom and/or behavior

management should be explored in this essay, ideally using a compare and contrast approach.

A further feature of this critical evaluation of classroom management theorists should involve linking theory to your own practical experience in classrooms, and discussion of where you have experienced theory working or not working in practice.

• You should explore a range of classroom applications of your evolving approach.

• This essay must be submitted to TurnitinWhole School Planning Week 11

Minor Assignment

Behaviour / Classroom Management Role Play • Due date: 25 August 2010

• Value: 30%Presentations in Week 16 in normal workshop group and separate

two hour session. This will probably be in your Learning Technologies workshop timeslot. (To be confirmed)

Let your workshop tutor know your group in today’s workshop or by e-mail this week.

In groups of 4, prepare a role-play (15 minutes maximum including discussion) focusing on a classroom management issue.

The expectation is that you present a two-part role-play: One part demonstrating how the issues shouldn’t be handled and the other

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Minor Assignment

Behaviour / Classroom Management Role Play • The presentation should also include some elaboration

of theoretical perspectives on the behaviour/classroom management issue chosen, and time allowed for a brief discussion or questions from the audience. A range of readings is provided in the references section below to support this.

• Time will be required out of class for preparation. Make sure that you share responsibility for planning the presentation and practice your timing.

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Minor Assignment

Behaviour / Classroom Management Role Play • This assignment will be peer and tutor assessed. A part

completed rubric is provided detailing five criteria and our thoughts on characteristics of these criteria that a good/excellent presentation would contain.

• The intention is that you develop your own characteristics of a poor and/or satisfactory presentation whilst you are engaged in the act of peer assessment.

• Some time will be allocated in the assessment workshop in Week 12 to develop performance factors/indicators for this purpose.

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School Planning

What planning did you observe teachers undertaking on your first placement?

• Whole school curriculum planning

• Ongoing planning in year/VELS level meetings

• Teachers planning of weekly program

• Informal meeting to discuss progress of lessons and children’s attainment

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OUR EDUCATIVE PURPOSE

What is powerful to

learn?

VictorianEssential Learning

Standards

What is powerful learning and

what promotes it?

Principles ofLearning

and Teaching P-12

LEARNER

How do we know it has been learnt?

Assessment Advice

Who do we report to?

StudentsParents

ColleaguesSchoolSystem

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Characteristics of effective whole school curriculum planning

1. places the learner at the centre of curriculum planning through having the students’ diverse needs, backgrounds, perspectives, interests, achievements and ways of learning inform curriculum design

2. is a collaborative process where the school’s goals, targets, challenges and opportunities from the School Strategic Plan and Annual Implementation Plan are looked at in their entirety

3. reflects shared values, beliefs and understandings about the knowledge, skills and behaviours students are to learn and how this can be achieved

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Characteristics of effective whole school curriculum planning (cont.)

4. provides connectedness between the strands, domains and dimensions of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards across the levels to ensure coherence, balance and continuity

5. clearly links standards, pedagogy, assessment and reporting practices

6. encourages student learning at a deeper, transferable and enduring level through a co-ordinated approach to learning and teaching across different year levels, subjects/programs

7. reduces the level of disparity in student achievement between classes and within classes

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Characteristics of effective whole school curriculum planning (cont.)

8. involves selection of the most appropriate programs, organisation, structures and resourcing to best support students to achieve the standards in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards and Post Compulsory Education and Training

9. encourages all staff to build knowledge and expertise together as they share responsibility for improving student learning outcomes

10.establishes a procedure for monitoring and evaluating the planning process

Department of Education, 2006

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Responsibility for different types of planning

• Yearly planning – whole school

• Termly planning – year level

• Weekly program – class teacher

• Daily Lesson Plans – class teacher (Graduate – first year & Pre-Service Teachers)

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Whole School Planning

• Yearly planning generally undertaken at whole school level. Indeed, in Victorian government schools, there are a range of Curriculum Guidelines for whole school planning.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/curriculum/default.htmAlso see Closing The Loop – available on

LMS

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Termly Planning• Generally undertaken at Year or VELS team

level• Often undertaken at end of previous term• CRT release or cancellation of normal specialist

programs common to allow this to happen during school day.

• Important to incorporate student views at this level of planning (popular way of doing this is a KWL)

• Will generally cover Integrated Unit, English and Maths

• Specialists will produce their own termly (and yearly) planning documents

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Involving students

• What should teachers know about you? • What is important for you to learn?• What do you think younger students need to learn?• How do you learn best?• How do you want to be assessed? Involving the students in whole school curriculum

planning through the use of questions similar to these will provide perspectives about what students think is important to learn, how they want to learn and how they want to be assessed. These questions can be adapted and used in a range of ways to capture student perspectives.

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Insights from trialling with schools

• “At our school we want to have a snapshot from across the school rather than data from individual students. One teacher from each year level will organise the students into small groups and ask each group to record their perspectives to each of the questions. A summary of the responses will be created by this group of teachers that collected the data.”

• “Many classes have been involved in component mapping as part of the PoLT program. We will use this data to inform our whole school curriculum planning.”

• “We think that asking the students to explain their favourite learning experience may help them to identify how they prefer to learn rather than using the question about learning.”

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Weekly/Daily Planning

• Class teacher responsibility• Weekly program is a requirement in

Victorian public schools• Often used as part of performance and

development process• Weekly program can be required by courts

in legal disputes• Many schools require detailed daily

planning if you are away from classroom

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Lesson Planning

Could be useful at this stage to revisit the first semester lecture on La Trobe lesson planner.

Will place this lecture on the LMS site for this week’s lecture.