Teachers Collective Views Quality Lessons at Waihi College

Quality Delivery of Lessons
It was great to see the consistency of ideas across our collective staff.  This was evidenced by the common themes on the posters we created in our morning pd this term on the 22nd October (see this link to that pd).

The idea of a shared understanding of quality practice is a vital part of a modern learning environment.  

Here is a summary document of all our groups brainstorming...




Most groups identified key themes that;
Bring quality feedback (and feed forward) to the learning experience.  That is to enable the student to clearly understand where they are at and where they can get to in their development across all curriculum areas.  
Similarly all groups identified the ingredient of classroom management.  That students need that safe structured environment to learn.  Some groups drilled down in to how to create these environments.  None of the groups were looking at overtly strict (well none identified that).  Rather there was clear indications of ways of achieving this.

I'm hoping that these ideas are ones that we can collectively build upon over the coming professional development sessions and that this activity will stimulate a greater interest in the ways that teachers are approaching these ideas.  

This post is related to RTC#1. establish and maintain effective professional relationships focused on the learning and well-being of ākonga & RTC#  4. demonstrate commitment to ongoing professional learning and development of personal professional practice