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Sites site Search for:Tom March WorkshopsJust another Tom March Sites site Main Home Workshop Home Look to Learn – overview Look to Learn Tumblr L2L example – Tools L2L example – 1984 Classportals Intro to ClassPortals ClassPortal Resources WebQuests WebQuests Day 1 Web 2 Tools Palette ← Older posts Next Era Ed Checklist and Resources Posted on July 13, 2015 by tmarch Welcome The following links support a workshop where educators reflect on their school’s journey toward the next era of education. Here is a Word doc to be used in this workshop. Next Era Ed Checklist: Designing Your Version (or a PDF version if you want to mark it up) The Only Game” Tweak mass production schooling to liberate personally meaningful learning. Go to this Padlet to contribute what your school’s doing. Debrief according to the model Vision Does your school have a vision of student success that is aspirational and includes articulated descriptors? Melbourne Declaration’s Successful Learners 21st Century Skills – 4Cs Michael Fullan’s Moral Imperative Realised Handout Evidence Using backward design, does your school have a continuum of rich performance tasks that validate the vision and prompt interdisciplinary demonstrations of students’ understandings that require their transfer to new contexts? Understanding by Design – Wiggins and McTighe ( research base ) Backward Design for Forward Action – and article by Jay McTighe Characteristics of a Performance Task – McTighe and Defined STEM Learning Theories Given the student performances your vision describes, what learning theories – and their research findings – are most likely to generate the desired evidence of your achievement as a school? Here are few favourites: Self-Determination Theory (Intrinsic Motivation) (Deci & Ryan) (or Daniel Pink’s animated version ) Flow (Csikszentmihalyi) PERMA (Seligman) Cultures of Thinking (Ritchhart, et. al.) Visible Learning (Hattie) Self-Organizing Learning Environments (SOLE) (Mitra) High Reliability Schools (Marzano) Curriculum 2.0 Are your teaching and learning practices founded on the Learning Theories and lead to student demonstrated evidence of the vision? Also, in an age of rich digital resources and personalised devices, are ICTs used to engage students in personally meaningful accomplishments? Review the CEQ•ALL rubric and use it with students Explore the Web 2.0 Tools Panel Look to Learns: Samples , About , stream (and the Thinking Routines / Prompts Page ) Read about ClassPortals and brainstorm topics you might choose Explore Tom’s WebQuests Review Do you have systemic reviews embedded that close the loop” for continuous improvement? Action Research Professional Learning Communities Review in Curriculum Mapping – Heidi Hayes Jacobs Schooling by Design – Wiggins and McTighe (Smart Digital Environments) What technology platforms or software does your school use to support teaching, learning, curriculum development, student learning profiles, etc.? I started working for Edumate in 2015. I’m happy to discuss how it supports all aspects of Next Era Ed or use this contact form if you’d like someone to get in touch and visit your school. Posted in Next Era Ed , Presentation , workshops | Leave a comment Meeting Springboards Posted on April 28, 2015 by tmarch Links to support Meetings and Workshops Brainstorming and Polling Ideas Padlet for Goals Collaborative Document WorditOut or Wordle Everyday Teaching and Learning Poll Resources The Melbourne Declaration Posted in Presentation , workshops | Leave a comment Stannies In Bathurst Posted on April 20, 2015 by tmarch Welcome! It’s a pleasure to make a first visit to St Stanislaus’ College in order to learn about the college’s goals and how developing curriculum can support achieving what matters most to the school leaders. Getting to Know You I find it helpful to begin by finding out about the challenges school leaders face. Please use this Google Doc to brainstorm the challenges you face doing your job as educators circa 2015. Subject-specific goals Australian Curriculum: Rationale and Aims Add to Your Collaborative Doc for developing Subject-specific goals. (Apply the Copy/Paste litmus test?) Posted in School Visit | Tagged Stannies | Leave a comment Sacred Heart College Posted on April 5, 2015 by tmarch Welcome & thanks! This short post provides links related to the presentation I’m doing Tuesday, 7 April at Sacred Heart College in Adelaide, South Australia. We hope this is the beginning of an ongoing partnership to develop rich curriculum units using Edumate’s Curriculum Mapping. Challenges Let’s begin by getting some input and sharing some common ground. Use this Google Doc to brainstorm the challenges you face doing your job as educators circa 2015. ( Wordle.net ) Learning Reflection Use this Google Doc to brainstorm words that capture feelings you experienced when really learning.” Five Steps to Next Era Ed Vision – is it articulated and shared? Evidence – exactly what does achievement of the Vision look like? Pedagogies – do you have research-based models to get you there? Curriculum 2.0 – are your units designed to leverage the models & ICTs? Process – have you closed the loop for continuous improvement? Visionary Documents Sacred Heart goals + Successful Learners” Sacred Heart Strategic Plan Australian Curriculum: Rationale and Aims Your Collaborative Doc for developing whole-school goal descriptors. 11:30 – 1:00PM – Senior School Session Subject-specific goals Australian Curriculum: Rationale and Aims Add you Your Collaborative Doc for developing Subject-specific goals. Default Curriculum Initiatives in Hobsons Edumate Download the spreadsheet: Curriculum_Initiatives_tmarch_vers3 Work in self-selected teams to complete the following in 30 minutes. You can organise your team and how it completes the task any way you want. Review the 23 Initiatives” Identify any that align / support either school-wide or subject specific goals/vision/descriptors Share out the top 3-5 with a short rationale of why you chose it. Post this at the bottom of the Sacred Heart Goals Google Doc Back Channel for Ideas Open Todays Meet to share what you’re thinking. Posted in Agenda , workshops | Tagged Sacred Heart College | Leave a comment Our Lady of Sion Posted on March 17, 2015 by tmarch Welcome! This short post provides links related to the presentation I’m doing Wednesday, 18 March at Our Lady of Sion College in Box Hill, Victoria. Polling on Your Job” Use the voting panel below to register your view. Take Our Poll Challenges Use this Google Doc to anonymously brainstorm the challenges you face doing your job. ( Wordle.net ) Back Channel for Ideas Open Todays Meet to share what you’re thinking. Posted in Presentation | Leave a comment Beamed in from Phnom Penh Posted on October 18, 2014 by tmarch A Virtual Welcome! Although I’d love to be with you today, I’m currently in Cambodia working with an NGO to develop their curriculum and teacher expertise. I’m having a great time, but I hope I can work with you in-person in 2015. The following links and resources should help support these sessions and perhaps your on-going learning. Introducing UbD Tom’s handout for Introducing Understanding and UbD Half-Day Workshop Readiness Check for UbD – online Input Assessment as Learning Unscrambling the UbD Terminology Puzzle (doc) – work on it as you go. The Cheat sheet” UbD in a Nutshell – June 2014 version, ASCD, Wiggins & McTighe Review the Examples above & compare them to one of your units. Transfer Goals – Flashcards or Scatter – read background from Wiggins and McTighe (pdf) Enduring Understandings – Flashcards or Scatter – read background from Wiggins and McTighe (pdf) Essential Questions – Flashcards or Scatter – read background from Wiggins and McTighe (pdf) Posted in UbD | Leave a comment Understanding at Launceston Grammar Posted on July 21, 2014 by tmarch Handout Please download this Word Document for the session Interactive Presentation on Goals...