BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.9//EN TZID:Australia/Adelaide X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Adelaide BEGIN:VEVENT UID:298@ais.sa.edu.au DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Adelaide:20200813T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Adelaide:20200813T123000 DTSTAMP:20200730T043559Z URL:https://www.ais.sa.edu.au/events/catalysts-for-pedagogical-improvement -13august/ SUMMARY:Catalysts for Pedagogical Improvement - Assessment & Task Design vi a Zoom DESCRIPTION:A professional learning opportunity for leaders of learning: Sc hool leadership\, Directors of Learning and Teaching\, middle leaders and classroom educators\n\nThis professional learning opportunity is designed for leaders of learning who are focused on driving improved educational pr actice across their school.\n\nFour catalysts for driving pedagogical impr ovement will be explored during two introductory workshops delivered by vi deo conference using the Zoom platform.\n\n1: Learning Design – nudging students beyond the learning of facts and skills.\n\nWe want our students ’ learning to be enduring\, enabling them to make sense of complexity no w and in the future. For this to occur\, we need to nudge students beyond the learning of facts and skills to uncover concepts—transferable ideas that transcend time\, place\, and situation. (Marschall\, 2019\, Edutopia\ , George Lucas\, Educational Foundation\, 9 Oct. 2019)\n\n This “cataly st” will investigate how we design learning where the educative purpose is on conceptual understanding and transfer.\n\n2: Assessment for Learning \n\n The educational gains associated with formative assessment have been described as ‘among the largest ever reported for educational intervent ions’ OECD\, 2017\n How do we effectively design and use assessment to gain insight into what our learners understand\, know and can do\, and en gage learners in their learning?\n\n3: The Australian Curriculum General Capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking\n\n How might the explicit t eaching and embedding of critical and creative thinking throughout lea rning encourage higher order thinking?\n\n4: The National Literacy and Nu meracy Learning Progressions\n\n How do we use the National Progressions to focus on our learners and their learning – to gain an understand of w here my learners are now and to explore future learning opportunities to s upport their growth\n\nSchools will select one of the catalysts to explore further in Term 4 within impact hubs and to drive and implement as a peda gogical pathway for improvement within the context of their school.\n\nImp act hubs\, as communities of practice\, facilitate the sharing of expertis e and opportunities to provide feedback and consider ways forward. Impact Hub meetings will be held via Zoom and dates will be negotiated.\n\nTarget Group \n\nLeadership teams across Foundation to Year 10.\n\nDates and tim es\n\nThursday 13 August: Assessment and Task Design (10.00am to 12.30pm v ia Zoom)\nWednesday 19 August: General Capability Critical and Creative Th inking and the National Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions (10.00 am to 12.30pm via Zoom)\n\n \;\n\nThere is no fee to register for this event.\n\nThis video conference may collect personal information such as your personal image\, voice and name\, in addition to sensitive informatio n you may disclose. This collection may be through the features of the tec hnology system\, through written communication via the chat facility\, or in the course of conversations. \n\nIf\, during the course of this video conference\, you disclose the personal information of others\, we encourag e you to inform them that you are disclosing that information to the AISSA and why. \n\nIf you do not wish your personal information to be captured \, please turn your video camera off\, apply a pseudonym for your name and be mindful of your contributions via the chat facility. \n\nChat transcr ipts will be used for the purpose of collecting attendance information and then will be destroyed. \n\nThe AISSA expressly prohibits the use of scr een capture to obtain the personal information of others. \n\nThe AISSA P rivacy Policy is available at www.ais.sa.edu.au  CATEGORIES:Leadership and Coaching,Professional Learning END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Adelaide X-LIC-LOCATION:Australia/Adelaide BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20200405T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+1030 TZOFFSETTO:+0930 TZNAME:ACST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR