Team |
Proposed focus |
Thinking Curriculum |
What are the:
- Tools to provide the means for helping students think more
effectively
- Teacher and student strategies for thinking and questioning
- Strategies to provide students with opportunities for reflection
|
Independent Learning |
During 2003 this team investigated
negotiated curriculum, peer/self/teacher assessment, and other
ways to instil ownership of their learning in our students.
This team is at a point of re-evaluating their goals |
Kids on the EDGE |
What is the best way to engage “Kids
on the Edge”?
Engage means to support students to work independently with
minimum supervision to experience success at their level
Kids on the edge include kids who require more supervision;
they lack initiative or find it difficult to stay on task. |
ICT Focus |
What are the most effective ICT strategies
that can
- be used to support the primary to secondary school transition
- ensure that students using ICT are engaged
Areas to look at could be Digital Portfolios, Kahootz |
Structuring Learning Experiences for
Engagement |
Review school/classroom organisational
structures to meet individual needs of middle years students:
- How do we explicitly communicate purpose of learning
- How do we explicitly teach skills to students to empower
them to make choices about their learning
|
Negotiation and Choice |
How can the negotiated curriculum
and assessment improve student learning and engagement?
How do we as teachers incorporate student choice into teaching
and learning strategies? |
Boys Education |
How to
- fully engage boys in classroom learning
- help boys use all of their intelligences
- bring out the best behaviours in boys
- develop boys’ self confidence
|
Classroom Community Connections |
- How do we enrich the community perceptions of our students?
- How do we provide authentic learning through connections
with our Community including interaction between Cerberus students?
|
Beyond 2005
Principals team |
How does the Cluster resource the
continuation of our work in enhancing teaching and learning practices? |
