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Science Week 2023

Bring science into your classroom We have curated some of our tools and resources to help you empower young minds and inspire the scientists of tomorrow with the wonders of learning. Watch and learn from teachers just like you as they run interactive experiments and enriching activities

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/science-week-2023

Spotlight: What Works in Online/Distance Teaching and Learning?

This Spotlight identifies best practice evidence to guide teachers on setting up online learning and advice teachers can give to parents during this process. Key consideration is given to principles demonstrated to benefit student outcomes and wellbeing. As such, this Spotlight is written from the perspective of teachers

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/spotlight-what-works-in-online-distance-teaching-and-learning

Coaching environmental scan

so that lessons can be taken from existing work in both the corporate and education sectors. Key themes have emerged from these cross-sector lessons which have been used to underpin the associated

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/coaching-environmental-scan

Utilising the zone of confusion

A grade 5 teacher who is also a numeracy leader at St Georges Rd Primary School, trials a 3D shape activity generated out of a collaborative professional learning network. The numeracy leaders from three schools work with a consultant to develop and trial maths lessons and activities relevant to their context. After trialing the activities in their own classrooms the numeracy leaders then support colleagues from the three schools to also implement the strategies. In this class the teacher

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/utilising-the-zone-of-confusion-illustration-of-practice

Induction case studies

Induction case studies You are currently: Home Lead & develop Develop others Support new teachers Induction case studies> comms ytplayer School documents Baynton West Primary School Performance and Development Peer Reflection Framework Performance and Development Policy Performance and Development

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Developing storyboards

St Saviour’s Primary School in Toowoomba, Queensland caters for over 400 students from Prep to year 7. The teacher has previously built on, and transferred students’ learning and experience in Science, to new learning situations and teaching areas and is now, with the aid of her colleague adapting this into a storyboard that can be published as a multimodal presentation. The two year 7 teachers have identified appropriate collaborative learning software that is age and learning appropriate

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/developing-storyboards-illustration-of-practice

Multiple literacy outcomes

St Saviour’s Primary School in Toowoomba, Queensland caters for over 400 students from Prep to year 7. The teacher of the school’s year 1 class had previously invited a visiting author to the class who had worked with her students to create creatures. She has decided to build on this experience in a literacy project by providing opportunities for her students to create a range of text types appropriate to their own interests and literacy needs

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/multiple-literacy-outcomes-illustration-of-practice

Selecting Indigenous resources

Sturt Street Community School is a Birth to Year 7 school located in central Adelaide, The school has a culturally diverse student population. The year 2/3 teacher has collaborated with teachers from seven other schools to embed Aboriginal studies across curriculum learning areas. This has resulted in the development of a database that includes resources and activities to support the teaching of Aboriginal histories and cultures within the Australian Curriculum

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/selecting-indigenous-resources-illustration-of-practice

Using an ICT toolkit

St Saviour’s Primary School in Toowoomba, Queensland caters for over 400 students from Prep to year 7. In 2012, the school participated in a trial of a nationally-developed ICT toolkit for everyday learning. The toolkit addressed the relationship between curriculum content, pedagogies and collaborative tools. Teachers at the school had varying degrees of competence and confidence in the use of ICT so professional learning was required in order to develop these attributes

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/tools-resources/resource/using-an-ict-toolkit-illustration-of-practice

Understand ITE student selection

educators is a focus of the ITE Standards and Procedures. Scroll screen to next content area, intakes of students from January 2017. Student teacher applicants are required to demonstrate, . Why focus on selection into initial teacher education programs? Proper, , this will help create a skilled cohort of graduates from the start of their careers

https://www.aitsl.edu.au/deliver-ite-programs/learn-about-ite-accreditation-reform/understand-ite-student-selection