1. Gore Rural Information Technology Schools Vision: Putting Effective Pedagogies into Practice

2. Effective Pedagogy What is effective pedagogy for our classrooms in our schools?

3. N.Z. Curriculum – Effective Pedagogies Create a supportive learning environment Encourage reflective thought and action Enhance the relevance of new learning Facilitate shared learning Make connections to prior learning and experience Provide sufficient opportunities to learn Inquire into the teaching-learning relationship

4. Effective Pedagogy?? Classroom Instructional Strategies Classroom Management David Classroom Curriculum Design Hargreaves These three together comprise effective pedagogy How does ICT fit in here? It is a series of tools which facilitates teachers to more effectively provide great teaching and learning!! Activity: Diamond Ranking

5. Classroom Instruction that Works – Effect Size CategoryAve. Effect Size Percentile Gain # of Studies Identify Similarities and differences1.614531 Summarizing and note taking1.0034179 Reinforcing effort and providing recognition 0.802921 Homework and practice0.7728134 Nonlinguistic representation0.7527246 Co-operative learning0.7327122 Setting objectives and providing feedback 0.6123408 Generating and testing hypotheses0.612363 Questions, Cues and organizers0.59221251 From: Robert Marzano’s meta analysis of 35 years of research

6. How does ICT fit? 1 Identifying similarities and differences - graphic organisers- venn diagrams/tcharts, Bloom’s – higher order, thinking skills 2 Summarizing and note taking - group using skrbl (online), kidspiration, inspiration 3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition - rubrics, certificates, online recognition – blogs, websites, create digital outlines etc, multiple intelligences 4. Homework and practice - online format – wikispace/website, computer programmes – practice e.g. times attack, spellcaster etc 5. Non-linguistic representations - G.O.’s, inspiration/kidspiration, Graphics-images, video – teacher tube etc, digital stories/analogies 6. Co-operative learning - online environments, skype, WEB 2.0 – interactive, computers – tools for sharing 7. Setting objectives and providing feedback - Data projectors – explicitly stated L.I.s & S.C.s. Online feedback – blogs, websites. Rubrics – feedback,reflections 8. Generating and testing hypothesis - online inquiry, spidermonkey-collating data, excel-graphs, word or PowerPoint to publish 9. Questioning, cues and organisers - questioning skills, G.O.’s

7. Why Pedagogy? Consider the following statements and where you would sit on a continuum? 1.“What I teach is more important than how I teach” 2.“We have always had successful students so we don’t need to change how we teach” 3.“My students’ behaviour limits my teaching approaches” 4.“Students have the greatest responsibility for their own learning”

8. Where are you now? YOU Aware of ICT Personal ICT Skills Teacher ICT skills Classroom application

9. Cluster Progress… Awareness of ICT Personal ICTTeacher ICTClassroom Application Knows about different software & hardware Don’t currently use ICT tools unless you have too. Core Values don’t acknowledge the merits of ICT Not familiar with computers or other common tools Able to use some software for personal use Uses some ICT tools for personal use e.g. camera, video, scanner Core Values - Knows the merits of ICT but still unsure Familiar with computers for personal use only Able to use software to enhance learning Uses ICT skills in some classroom contexts Core Values – ICT to enhance teaching and learning opportunities Using computers in teacher contexts e.g. planning, assessment, skills Targets software to meet learning needs Facilitates students ICT skills in every appropriate context Core Values – ICT is a necessity – we deprive students if we don’t Confidently tries new ICT tools in classroom programme Where do you fit best, where does your school and teachers fit?

10. Student Achievement School/Teacher AverageFinal Average school, average teacher 50 Least effective school, least effective teacher 50 Most effective school, least effective teacher 50 Most effective school, most effective teacher 50 Least effective school, most effective teacher 50 Most effective school, average teacher 50 Your school:50

11. Student Achievement School/Teacher AverageFinal Average school, average teacher 50 Least effective school, least effective teacher 503 Most effective school, least effective teacher 5037 Most effective school, most effective teacher 5096 Least effective school, most effective teacher 5063 Most effective school, average teacher 5078 Your school:50

12. How can we continue to have effective schools filled with effective teachers?? The Cluster can help with this by: