3.10 Pedagogy and school improvement (IDEAS)
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Description
The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn will undertake two parts to the Pedagogy and School improvement project in 2008.It will focus on supporting school communities in the development of pedagogy and school revitalisation through the IDEAS process. The focus of the activity is on schools engaging in meaningful and productive examination of learning and teaching and changing practices.
The second part of the project will concentrate on Pedagogy using the Quality Teaching Framework.
It will provide teachers with opportunities to reflect and refine practice in relation to current pedagogy based on the quality teaching framework. It will also provide an opportunity to develop resource material to assist with the implementation of quality teaching framework. The activity is designed to meet the professional learning needs of staff by providing professional learning that is informed, practical and relevant, challenging, well planned, sequenced, and that has been based on identified needs of staff.
The activity will be managed by a project officer who will have prime responsibility for the organisation of programme activities and the implementation of activities as required. The project officer in collaboration with members within Catholic Education Office Education Services will design and implement activities and will collaborate as appropriate for joint activities. There will be involvement from the University of Southern Queensland (IDEAS) and the University of Newcastle (Quality Teaching).
Contacts
| Maree Williams email: maree.williams@ceo.cangoul.catholic.edu.au Ph 02 62345408 Fax 02 6239 6567 Sector: CEC |
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Outcomes
Through participation in an AGQTP project, teachers will have strengthened the currency and depth of their pedagogical knowledge and skills.
Through participation in an AGQTP project, teachers will have strengthened the currency and depth of their learning area knowledge and understandings.
Access
Targeted Catholic Education Commission schools/teachers.
Design
The professional learning strategy for this activity includes:
- school-based projects with a focus on learning and pedagogy, located within the context of Enlivening Education Through Partnership and Renewal through the IDEAS process. These projects will engage teachers in workplace learning that is based on a continuous improvement model
- clusters of schools working in collegial networks
- workplace mentoring and coaching
- involvement in the annual centralised IDEAS forum
- flexible learning that includes components such as self-paced modules and facilitated online learning, face-to-face workshops, video and teleconferences, online mentors, and discussion groups
- local and cluster workshops and expos that enable participants to have their work publicly celebrated and critiqued
- onsite and offsite participation in knowledge building and skill sharing activities
- research and improvement processes using action learning, reflective practice and double loop learning
- partnerships with professional associations and higher education institutions to provide expertise in the development, design and implementation of professional development activities.
Implementation
The implementation of the activity will be supported by a designated project officer, school based professional learning team and an external provider.
Delivery
Workplace learning, mentoring, action learning project
Timeline
By June 2008:
- publication strategy including identification of participants
- design and development of project materials
- workshops including between session activities
- progress report submitted in June.
By December 2008:
- workshops including between session activities
- school visits by IDEAS team
- school based planning
- action research learning projects developed
- annual report submitted in November.
- IDEAS Forum Showcase of 2008 work.
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