Sarah Fleming - this great talk resonated with me, I feel exactly as she described. Sometimes you are just not part of the tech club, you have never hear of the app or program that they are talking about and that can incite incredulity. This talk reminded me the main goal of the tech coach is to improve learning; I don't need to have all the answers and it's better for my students if I don't. It is OK to make mistakes and be vulnerably, fear of risk can be our biggest mistake.
Niki Hambleton - using visuals in learning. This is something I should do more of despite my ideas that I am no good at art so I can't present my work visually. Watch this space for a test of visual note taking. Jeff Utecht - spread a growth virus in schools by knocking down walls, model the good behavoir by failing publically and intentionally celebrate great work
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This session focused on reaching out to those students who may not learn in the "normal" way and strategies we can use to adapt our teaching for their benefit and the benefit of all of our students. We covered some aspects of SEN (useful link for you if you are in Asia - SENIA), consider our 'outlier' students, explored our own learning styles through quizzes and then focused on platforms we can use that give alternative ways to communicate alongside some amusing poses from go noodle!
My group began to explore exit ticket and then we shared the apps / programs that can be useful strategies for different students. Our summary was: + provides feedback over time on individuals + allows you to personalise instruction based on feedback + a variety of assessment tools (and you can use others' tools) - takes time to set up accounts - you need a 1:1 environment or BYOD for the students to be set up and using it regularly enough to get useable data - not a "pick it up and run" kind of app, it takes time to play around with it and figure out the opportunities. For more information about the session have a look at Michael Boll's website here. |
AuthorEmma Ahmed is a learning coach and curriculum coordinator at International Schools. Archives
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