Welcome to PD session 1

Agenda

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Experience:Learning Maths

in P1/5 classroom

2 43Unpacking our

Experience:Design for Thinking

What do you do with an idea?

PD Sharing on 6 March

30 mins30 mins

ExperienceLet’s start with putting ourselves in the shoes of our learners

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02 Experience● Form groups of 3

● 1 piece of paper & 1 pencil per group

● 15 mins -> A Primary 1/5 student

● 1st Maths lesson for the year

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02 Unpacking the Experience● Observers

● Brenda | Roslan | Edmund | Amos | Deenise | Hui Lin | Hwee Peng | Jie Min | Baeyah | Iris | Li Lien | Wee San | Victoria | Joy | Marina

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How did the teacherPromote Thinking

& Discussion?

Analytical Intellection

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What’s your understanding of

Maths?

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Where can you see

these things?

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Decorate your group’s storybook

of Maths.

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What would be on the 1st page?

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What would you draw to show me

1?

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What would you draw to show me

2?

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What would you draw to show me

3?

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02 Our Experience● Compare your booklet with another

group’s booklet

● Notice – what is similar/different

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Studying Student’s Work

Input | Analytical | Intellection | Ideation

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How could we use these feedback?

Unpacking our ExperienceLet’s look at how teachers can design task & questions to promote student’s thinking and class discussions

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Observations

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Design task to assess

student’s prior knowledge of

Math

Scaffold thinking through

questions

Studying student’s

work

#1 Task to elicit

student’s prior

knowledge

Activate Learning

#2 Purpose of

questions | STP (IRF)- Where can you see all

these things?

- What would you draw

on the cover of the

book?

- What comes in 2s?

Promote thinking and

discussion

Group 17 – Lilian, Ada, Evelyn, Shui Farn

Demonstrate their Learning

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Pedagogical PracticesLesson Enactment

Using Questions to Deepen LearningTeaching Actions

Initiate – Respond – Follow up or Feedback Chains

Initiate – open ended question

Comment – statement - question

Co-construct answer

What do you do with an idea?How might we grow ourselves and others through our sharing?

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Collaborative learning to adopt,adapt,Across subjects

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Strategy

Product:Booklet

Process:Use of

Questions

Task/Activity:Drawing

Thinking behind the

Design

Teacher as designer of Active learning experiences

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Why did I want to adapt the process?

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BLGPS PD Direction 2019How might we develop ourselves and others to be competent designers of thinking and discussion in our classrooms?

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BLGPS Teacher’s

journey towards a

reflective and

competent

practitioner

Singapore Teaching

Practice (STP)

Philosophy | Resource |

Design using Active

Learning

TLC - FA

AfL: Monitoring

Giving Feedback Analysing Student’s

work

Promote Thinking and

Discussion

Making Thinking Visible

Routines | Questioning

Classroom Practices

For Engaged Learning

in every Classroom

Design

Enact

Reflect

Build staff competencies in designing and facilitating students’ active learning to achieve student’s outcomes (TLC)

BLGPS Key Learning Direction

2018 2019

Approach

(a) Whole school approach in understanding

STP, the 24 teaching actions

(b) School-wide training e.g. facilitation skills,

Making Thinking Visible

Approach

(a) Department training for specific teacher

segments & profiles

• Sharing of learning during Department PD

(Mar, Jun, Sep, Nov)

(b) School-wide training e.g. Facilitation skills,

Making Thinking Visible, Strengthsfinder

(a) Structured Process towards Open

Classroom

• LT role model a lesson using Acl 7 March

• KPs open classrooms in Term 2

• Collaborative Design in June

• Staff Open classrooms and TTT in Term 3

(a) Use of Existing structures e.g. open

classroom (developmental), TTT (3 sessions

focus on design using Acl, studying student’s

work, reflect using checkout) led by YH

(b) Reference [Link] for Team Leads/YH*

Dept PD

TTTcpdd

PD

BLGPS PD platforms

Inter-subject collaboration

Sharing of ideas - adapt

Subject-specific collaboration

Sharing of ideas - adopt

Purpose:

● Platform to be engaged in professional conversations across subjects/levels.

● To listen/learn/share our thinking behind the design of lessons that promotes Student’s Thinking & Discussion

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Platforms for design – enact - review

● Open classrooms (Term 2)

○ Focus on design for thinking and discussions

○ Details -