Quality of life
CONTEXT
- The teacher education student is in the first year of a Master of Teaching degree.
- The teacher education student is completing his second teaching placement.
- This school is a small, co-educational comprehensive school in an urban area.
- This Year 10 Geography lesson sequence focuses on quality of life and wellbeing.
Implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.
EVIDENCE ANNOTATION
The teacher education student demonstrates 2.6.1 ‘Graduate achieved’ through:
- Developing a sequence of teaching and learning lesson plans that link to syllabus outcomes/objectives for Year 10 Geography, taking into account available resources.
- Integrating a broad variety of ICT teaching and learning activities into the lesson sequence, all with a meaningful purpose and all being used to further enhance content. For example, students access Google Public Data and interactive data regarding the OECD Better Life Index to learn how to interpret maps, graphs, and spatial distributions to measure human wellbeing. Students also use Google Classroom for formative teacher assessment of student work.
G: The goal for this teacher education student is 2.6.1.
R: The teacher education student has satisfied 2.6.1 at graduate level.
O: What specific mentoring strategies could you employ with this teacher education student to help him move towards ‘Graduate exceeds’ for 2.6.1?
W: What is the next step you would negotiate as a goal for this teacher education student? What will you do as a Mentor to help him achieve this goal?
G: To implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students and to move up on the 2.6.1 graduate continuum.
R: Which level of the graduate continuum are you currently at for 2.6.1? Refer to recent feedback you have received.
O: What specific actions could you take to implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students?
- Could you integrate a broader variety of ICT teaching and learning activities into your teaching and learning plans/programs?
- Could you incorporate web-based research projects into lesson sequences for your subject?
- Could you try out some different Web 2.0 tools or subject appropriate software in your lessons?
- Can you use ICT to make selected content more relevant and meaningful for your students?
W: What is your next step in improving your implementation of teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students? Try to formulate a specific goal.