2nd PD SESSION@ BEACON13 March 2013

• Group 1 : The magic is in you. However, an extraordinary magician is inventive and creative. This magician uses the unique environment to make magic truly magical.

• Group 2 : One way is to have a transference of the love and passion of the subject to your pupils when you show it in your class.

• Group 3 : With good planning, we can reduce the factors that hinder engagement, especially the internal factors

• Group 4 : ... Create novelty in excitement.

• Group 5 : We also learnt that while there are external factors which may affect pupils’ engagement, it is more important for us to work on the internal factors which is within our control.

What you said …

• Group 6 : ...Many use music or videos that serve as tuning in but if these are not carefully chosen, they would only serve to gain the attention of the students rather than serving as a gateway to engagement with can result in the occurance of learning. ...

... However, IT needs to be looked upon as more of a tool to facilitate and encourage learning rather than being a tool to activate engagement alone. Perhaps this is where a Future school differs in how we see effective IT integration into daily lessons.

• Group 7 : Passion is contagious. Spread it to the children.

• Group 8 : All the pictures depict differentiated learning. It allows us to see that through nature, we can see a diverse range of engaged learning...

.... Fun lesson may not equate to an enriching lesson.

Engagement• Can be understood as an overall motivation to

learn• Research has shown that student engagement is

important to student learning• 3 types of engagement:

affective (emotion towards learning) behavioural cognitive

Attributes of Engaged Learners

1) Affective• on task• Intrinsically motivated

2) Behavourial• eager to respond• follow instructions• exhibit positive conduct

3) Cognitive• ask questions to clarify • share thoughts/ideas• give feedback• focus on topic or lesson objectives• able to make connections with the LOs• able to reflect on their learning

Attributes of Engaged Learners

Students• eager to respond• ask questions to clarify • able to share thoughts• give feedback• on task• focus on topic or lesson objectives• able to make connections with the Los• give ideas• able to reflect on their learning

What impedes engaged learning

• Difficulty of tasks• Distraction• Inappropriate duration • Inappropriate resources• Inappropriate venue• Unclear instruction• Health issues / Sleepiness / Hunger• Unmotivated / uninterested • Technology hiccups• External issues

PETALS

Objectives• Understand the PETALS framework• Take stock of what we are doing • Identify gaps between desired

outcomes and our current reality• Identify ways to bridge this gap

Expert GroupEach group will be assigned one area.Share/ discuss/ ideas/ thoughtsCapture important points in Google form (assign a scriber)Group sharing (assign presenter)

P1 & CL 1: Pedagogy

P2 & CL 2:Experience of Learning

P3 & CL3: Tone of Environment

P4 & TL: Assessment

P5: Learning Content

P6: Student-Centredness

Capturing sharing

TaskBefore readingSharing of what you know about PETALS

TaskDuring reading – Desired OutcomesJot down new learningThink of your own teaching practices in relation to PETALS Are we in line?? Cite examples

TaskAfter reading – Current RealityThink of the gaps. (Is it pervasive??)How/ What now???How ICT come into play??

Think of an ICT-based lesson that you have conducted or observed.

Then explain how you think it fits into the PETALS framework.

ingredients

preparation

presentationCOOKing

Use of ICT tools• What are being used?• How are the tools being

used?• How effective are these

tools?

Thinking skills and Digital Age skills• What are some of the

thinking skills involved?• How do these skills

being honed with the use of ICT?

Instructional Approach• What is the pedagogy?• Does the intended

pedagogy able to achieve the objectives of the lesson?

Authenticity of Experience• How does the teacher

make the learning experience authentic?

• Describe the episode in the lesson that brings out the authenticity.

Guiding Principles of ICT lesson

Lesson Content• What do you want students to be able to know and do?

• What thinking skills are involved in your lesson?

• What are the instructional strategies used in the lesson?

• What is the value of the technology used and how does it support the learning process

• How do you know learning is occurring?

• What ICT skills are involved in your lesson?

• What Global Age Digital Skills are being elicited from students in your lesson?

• Creativity and Innovation• Communication and Collaboration• Research & Information Fluency• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving &

Decision Making• Digital Citizenship

Thinking skills & Digital Age Skills

Guiding Principles of ICT lesson

Self-directed Learning (SDL)Elements:• Students explore

alternatives and make their own decisions

• Students formulate questions and generate their own inquiries

• Students plan and manage their workload efficiently

• Students reflect on their learning and use feedback provided to improve their work

• Students apply their learning in new contexts

• Students learn beyond the curriculum

Collaborative Learning (CoL)Elements: • Negotiate and set common

goals• Provide constructive

feedback• Take different roles to

achieve group goals• Reflect on group and

individual learning processes

• Work towards completing individual tasks as well as assist the group in achieving the group goal.

Guiding Principles of ICT lesson

Designing a Graphic Stimulus

Objectives• to match graphics and

phrases to theme • to identify salient points in

a poster• to use questioning

techniques – 5W1H

template

Guiding Principles of ICT• creativity & innovation• communication &

collaboration• research & information

fluency• critical thinking

• select Pedagogy that considers students’ readiness to learn and their learning styles

• design an Experience of Learning that stretches thinking, promotes inter-connectedness and develops independent learning;

• create a Tone of Environment that is safe, stimulating and which engenders trust;

• adopt Assessment practices that provide information on how well students have performed and provide timely feedback to improve learning

• select relevant and meaningful Learning Content that

makes learning authentic for the students.

Engaged learning is made possible when we

FutureSchools@Singapore- aims to equip our pupils holistically with the

essential skills to be effective workers and citizens in the globalised and digital workplace of the future

- experiment, on a school-wide scale, with various innovative ICT/IDM-enabled pedagogical approaches for supporting high levels of engaged learning and provide possible models for the seamless and pervasive integration of ICT

Beacon PrimaryOur Mission “Nurture and Inspire our learners to the best of their potential through innovative approaches in an engaging environment, leveraging on Technologies and research

Our visionA gracious community of active and creative learners who are global in outlook, grounded in basics, and rooted in values, with a passion to envision for the future