The Hylands School Pedagogy Project Blog: Aspiring to develop the most effective teaching practice in order to provide the greatest life chances possible for our learners and communities
Monday 15 July 2013
Accelerated Learning - bringing Alistair Smith's model for learning to Hylands School
If anyone is unsure about who Alistair Smith is then follow this link to a video clip that should give you a pretty good introduction of the things he believes schools should be doing in order to provide the best chances for those in their care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t0D2J67xCk
Friday 12 July 2013
Introducing the Hylands Pedagogy Blog
Paul Ginnis Training
Outstanding Teaching for
Outstanding Learning:
planning principles &
practical strategies
This is the blog page for the Hylands School Pedagogical Project Group. As a school we are committed to developing outstanding practice across all of our faculties and staff. As part of this journey, we have set up a teaching and learning group; composed of 15 members of the teaching staff. Our job is to research new ideas, trial them in our classrooms and with our pupils, feedback to colleagues and think about how they can be added to our teaching in order to improve the experiences and outcomes for all our learners. This blog is a record of what we will be up to in the next few years. You can also follow us on https://twitter.com/ with the contact of @hylandspedagogy.
Our first
post on our teaching and learning project blog is an introduction to a number
that will follow in the new school year.
Our teaching and learning group
attended a training session with Mr Paul Ginnis at Kemnal Technology College on
Monday 1st July. We were so excited by the content of the sessions that a
number of us came back to our school at the end of the day and began
re-planning our lessons for the next day in light of what we saw. Paul gave us
some great ideas to go away and use and we thought that our pupils would benefit
from them straight away.
We also
decided that it was vital that the remainder of the staff who had not been in
the sessions got the chance to hear about some of these ideas as soon as
possible. Therefore, the following week we organised a show and tell session
where each member of the group delivered a nano presentation to the whole staff
of what had excited them most, why it had excited them and what they were going
to do with it in the coming Autumn Term.
The first
few blogs on this site will aim to bring out the action research and ideas of
our teaching and learning group. This will hopefully serve as a record of our
ideas and experiments for the group itself, but also as a place where the wider
staff body can come and visit to find resources and ideas for their own
teaching. Equally, if anyone picks up on our work and uses it in their
classroom, then we've achieved our wider aim of simply making teaching in
schools better.
The
presentations that we gave are listed below and there will be a blog post on
each of these in the near future once we've all had a good chance to trial them
and embed them in our classes in the new academic year. I've attached a couple of links as starting points in case you can't wait. We hope all those who read them can take something
away for their own classes and pupils.
Independent Learners
The organised but lazy Teacher
Wall Paper your room
Developing
a "Flipped" Classroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVi9OIh-Bc
Students planning their own learning
Reverse Engineering your teaching
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