You
can find the full script for Podcast 29 at
http://www.pataphysics.net.au/mysf_project/mysf_scripts/index.html
Meeting at the Hellenic Club, Friday 20 November, 2009
Anne has brought
notes from the focus class that
was given by Michael. She reads
from her notes and then checks through the coding from the QTM
documents,
mostly using pages 16 and 17 of A
classroom practice guide: Quality teaching in
ACT schools (NSWDET, 2006).
These pages relate to ‘Deep Knowledge’. Anne notes
that the feedback for the analysis if feed-forward
into the next iteration of the project, when she is to give her version
to a different group, and also when
the class is repeated to a new cohort of students.
Anne says she is “looking at making changes that
are necessary to accommodate the next group”.
Discussion of Michael’s class note the focus areas
of ‘Deep Understanding’ and ‘Deep Knowledge’ and
that there is evidence of this from the paragraph task on the back of
the handout sheet, from the
Inspiration graphic from Michael’s class and from the agreement on the
prioritizing of points as overall comments on the sub-genre of
Post-Apocalyptic fiction.
Anne notes the need to, “enhance the dimensions we are focusing on”. She looks to build upon or improve those parts and there is a discussion as to how the class can be “be tweaked, change the lesson plan in order to highlight that dimension or improve that dimension for the next class”.
Anne and Michael looked in detail at the QTM documents and noted that only the two dimensions of ‘Deep Understanding’ and ‘Deep Knowledge’ were the focal points but that also the class included other dimensions, especially ‘Problematic Knowledge” (NSWDET, 2006:20) and ‘Student Direction’, a component of Dimension 2: Quality learning environment ( NSWDET, 2006:29). This last was seen by the student choice in the use of the Inspiration concept map as well as the student control over the use of the IWB as a summative tool for the focus class.
Anne’s class
After discussing and analyzing Michael’s class there was a discussion of Anne’s class. The most important element in this discussion was the very different nature of the two classes. Although both were Year 8, Anne’s class were a Level 2 English group, some of whom had special needs or other pre-existing conditions that must change the basis of the class. Anne’s class was to be a small group, some with major behavioural issues at the school, and others with conditions that would require a different scope and sequence from Michael’s group. Notes on Anne’s class can be found in this link.
The trailers used for the class were reviewed in the light of Anne’s class with ‘The World, the Flesh and the Devil’ taken out and ‘Waterworld’ added.
It was decided that Anne would segue into her focus class from their current work and also to focus on ‘Disasters’, rather than ‘Post-Apocalyptic’ texts. She will also change the focus to more attention on the students’ pre-existing knowledge of Disaster texts, as her group seems to have strong backgrounds in a variety of texts, including disaster films. Anne decides to start by identifying different types of disasters and then discussing some disaster movies.
Anne then decides to move the class from discussing disaster movies to asking why people make moves about disaster. This discussion is to be assisted by the use of Inspiration on the SmartBoard, noting the questions and responses as linked concepts.
Anne wants to use Inspiration and jot down ideas from the students, then run the trailer film section, then come back to the Inspiration to see what difference the films and their discussions will make to the original concepts about this type of text. The agenda for the class can be described in a diagram, as found here.
NSWDET (2006). A classroom practice guide: Quality teaching in ACT Schools. Copyright NSW Department of Education and Training. Canberra: Publishing Services for the ACT Department of Education and Training.
NSWDET (2006a). An assessment practice guide: Quality teaching in ACT Schools. Copyright NSW Department of Education and Training. Canberra: Publishing Services for the ACT Department of Education and Training.
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