Professional Development
Maanaiakalani
Creating High Expectations Schools Lecture
My learning:
- Teacher mindset and expectations for ALL students should be high and personalised for each learner. Maori, Pasifika, NZ European.
- Students achieve more when teachers have high expectations of low achievers.
- Grouping- affects students self-esteem
- Easy to manage students learning in levels.
- Alternatives to grouping
- Grouping based on favourite animals, shoe size, friends.
What I found interesting was a specific example of the power of mindset. A scientist working with rats told his assistants that the rats were really intelligent and could find there way through the maze quickly. Because the assistants came into to lab with that mindset the scientist discovered the rats found there way through the maze quicker
Junior reading
Suggestion from lecturer: Students get to choose to read a book from a selection of levels. Even if they struggle. They can put a card in to say I can read by myself, I can read with some help, can someone read this to me. But doing this the teacher is giving students a chance to branch out from their reading level and challenge themselves.
I have implemented this in my library time. Asking students to choose whatever book they like but they must identify if they can read it by themselves, they can read with some help or needs someone else to read it to them.
I have also created mixed ability groups for Maths. This is working well as the students help each other based on their different strengths.
Links to the teaching standards: Design for learning, professional learning, learning focused-culture
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