Pupil free Day 2024 Curiostity and Powerful Learning Conference at Yeronga State School

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 Day 2: 

Kath Murdoch & Dr, Helen Street

Autonomy turns into collaboration because the more you agency you have, the more you are wanting to and willing to contribute to the team. 


Teacher agency leads to student agency. 

WE CAN KEEP DOING THIS BY REFELCTING AT THE END OF EACH SESSION,  BASED ON THE QUESTION: WHAT DID YOU LEARN. 

Bridging the concepts of what you learnt will be easier if we start with recording our prior knowldge


Next stesp: how can I do this in HASS?


You need to get buy-in from the kids before you start practicing a new thing. How can you expand their understanding by incorporating a thing they like to do with the activity? Drawing, painting, etc. 

It is good to help with perspective by using the pictures from the internet that people see differently. it's from lived experience.  Like the blue and white dress. 

You must find out what matters to the children before you can start. 


Visible Thinking Routines

"Making thinking Visible"

Peel the fruit, is a revisit routine

Helps to make the learning authentic and uses deeep thought. 

Chalk Talk is a silent routine. 

gives shared paper, silent writing but each reading and recording ideas. 

Good for teams, not so good for struggling writers and readers. 


THE NEW ASSESSMENT STANDARDS INCLUDE FORMAL AND INFORMAL OBSERVATIONS. 


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