Join learncentral for access to online webinars foccussing on contemporary education

issues, KLA specific teaching strategies, discussions with other colleagues and

the option to host your own public webinar with guests from all over the globe!

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The Learning Federation's Scootle

http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/p/home

The Learning Federation's Scootle provides access to more than 8,000 digital

curriculum resources from The Le@rning Federation. Teachers can find interactive learning objects,

images, audio files and movie clips via browse, search and filter technology. Scootle allows the

creation of learning paths – collections of learning content interwoven with teacher comments and

descriptions that can be made available to students either online or offline.

These learning paths can be shared with colleagues.

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David Koutsoukis helps educators build positive and productive classrooms and schools through professional development programs, conference presentations, public seminars and resources. He is the author of nine books and more than twenty other resources and presents thoughout Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.

Teaching Practices....

* Can you name a teaching and learning strategy that you have used in the last six months that you would consider yourself an expert act?

* Can you explain WHY you used it?
What outcome were you hoping to achieve for your students by using this method?

'Productive Pedagogies' is a balanced theoretical framework enabling teachers to reflect critically on their work.

Teachers should use the Productive Pedagogies framework to consider:

• Are all the students I teach, regardless of background, engaged in intellectually challenging and relevant curriculum in a supportive environment?
• How do my teaching and assessment practices support or hinder this?
• What opportunities do I have to critically reflect upon my work with colleagues?

This manual may be used to assist teachers with:

• reflecting on current classroom practices
• generating a professional language
• designing curriculum and learning experiences
• making intelligent decisions about individual students' needs.

The manual describes each of the twenty Productive Pedagogies, and includes examples of how they may be applied.

Find the manual with this link:

http://education.qld.gov.au/public_media/reports/curriculum-framework/productive-pedagogies/html/manual.html

"What Teachers Make," by TAYLOR MALI

http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/pedagogy-what-does-it-mean-2370 Jo McShane used to think that pedagogy was just a stuffy academic way of saying ‘teaching’, but after attending a conference on the subject she finds that it means a great deal more....