Heard on the Hill Term 3, Week 10
Bonjour à tous, and Wanju
On the weekend, I entered the world of VR to actively engage in a training program to drive a Komatsu road grader. It’s not a career change, it’s my son's latest work project. It was absolutely amazing. I didn’t want to leave the VR world.
Imagine being able to take your students to the Louvre, wander the Colosseum, march through the battlefields of the Somme or float through the circulatory system of the body at the change of each period. This is what is/will be available to our students when we access VR technology. Mathematics students can already be using CAD programs to understand geometry in a practical way. This is the world that our students are in or will enter soon.
We have a way to go before we are VR-ready and keeping up with tech advances is just another thing for us to do. If you have ideas for integration of new tech please get on the ICT committee or suggest technologies that you are interested in investigating for the ICT committee to plan some PL. The new world is coming and we are preparing the thinkers, leaders and workers of the future. It is an exciting time.
Thank you everyone for a great term. If you are heading off on a holiday I hope that it is adventurous, if you are spending some time wrapped in a blanket finishing off the latest instalment of House of the Dragon, I hope that it is enjoyable. Regardless of your plans, I hope that everyone takes time to put the mask on themselves, revitalise and stay safe. Have a great week and a wonderful holiday.
En Avant
Mike Sinagra
Nuts and Bolts
Please keep your eye on the calendar. There are a number of important events coming up as the Year 12s wrap up their time at school. The students love having their teachers share in the celebrations.
Leadership Minutes
Please click the link below to access last week's Leadership Minutes.
Professional Learning
High Quality Professional Learning Toolkit
AITSL have recently released a new Professional Learning Planning tool for teachers. You can now access a tool to design your own professional learning plan. This tool can help you select from a range of effective learning modes and approaches, which are evidence-based. Click on the link to access the toolkit.
Department of Education - required PL
Our employer has recently sent out an Ed-email stating that all employees must complete the Work Health and Safety online PL via the Professional Learning tab on Ikon. Please complete this PL before the end of the school year.
Cyberbullying on TikTok
There are also many accounts with photos or videos of students in their classrooms or on school grounds. This isn't against the school rules, if it is a project being run by the teacher, and is being closely monitored. It seems, however, that there is a lot of content that has likely been created without teacher awareness. Some students may be using their iPads to create this content. Please do what you can to limit phone use in the classroom, and please monitor and report any cyberbullying issues to Student Services.
Year 12 Results
General courses are winding up their assessments this week. Final grades do not have to be entered until Friday 14 October; this includes Year 12 ATAR courses. Please refrain from entering grades until Week 1 in Term 4.
Visible Learning
Over the next few weeks, we will be looking back at Visible Learning. At any point, teachers can easily Google Visible Learning and a multitude of websites are there to gain information. Whatever resource is accessed, Hatties research indicates that Visible Learning has the biggest impact on student achievement.
Cathy and Michelle, having taught ATAR Psychology, are very familiar with a guy called Bandura. Bandura explored ‘efficacy’ and expanded his studies into ‘collective efficacy’:
“a group’s shared belief in the conjoint capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to produce given levels of attainment.”
Simply put, the more teachers in a learning area act as a team with a sound approach to improve student outcomes will see that happen in their classes. Linking this to classroom (peer) observations the better this approach becomes.
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