Questions for Reflection:
How can we shift away from delivery of material as our prime source of teaching methodology if that is the only way we experience our Professional Development?
Does HOW we do PD affect our teaching practice?
Where does PD happen? Can it happen in staff meetings? Can it happen in classrooms?
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Questions for Reflection:
Have you ever considered using stations in adult education?
Can you think of certain lessons you teach or learning situations you facilitate that can be tweaked into a stations model?
Do you already teach in stations part of the time? What works? What can be made better?
For administrators
How can you use stations in staff meetings or professional development?
Questions for Reflection:
How can movement during the learning process help our students?
How do you work with small groups of students while keeping the rest of the class engaged in their own learning?
Questions for Reflection:
What are different ways you offer variety and choice in the classroom?
Do you have an interactive white board in your classroom? How do you use it?
How can the role of the teacher change when we use stations?
Questions for Reflection:
How can we design professional learning opportunities that have a high impact on practice?
What do you think of the idea of modeling professional learning on the kind of learning we want to see in our classrooms?
Does HOW we do PD affect our teaching practice?
Questions de Réflexion:
Comment évaluez-vous vos étudiants?
Comment pouvons-nous évaluer l’apprentissage lorsque les étudiants ont plus de choix dans leur apprentissage?
Comment vos pratiques d’évaluation répondent-elles aux besoins de vos étudiants?
Questions for Reflection:
How do your students know what success looks like?
How could this help them get better?
Have you and your students ever co-constructed success criteria?
aka formative assessment, ongoing assessment practices, formative evaluation.
Questions for Reflection:
Do you assess your students in more than one way?
Why would we want to assess our students in more than one way?
Questions for Reflection:
Do the teachers in your school or centre visit each other’s classrooms?
What is stopping them?
What can we gain by visiting each other’s classrooms?