SA Teaching for Effective Learning Framework
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The South Australian Teaching for Effective Learning framework is in use at Bridgewater Primary School in South Australia. The framework was developed by teachers together with a significant international group of educators and academics, and referenced against the current research findings about human learning and school effectiveness. The framework is unique in it has a twin focus of improving learner engagement for improved learner achievement. It places teacher’s professional learning at the centre of improving learner engagement and achievement, and it recognises the importance of school leadership in creating the professional learning community for a whole school approach to teaching and learning.
South Australia’s Teaching for Effective Learning framework asks teachers to think about one prime question, how would you go as a learner in your own classroom? And how do you know if your children are being successful? For ten years we’ve been working together with teachers, local, national and international researchers to try and figure out what the basic framework of successful teaching and learning is in South Australian classrooms. Now we’ve got an opportunity to combine the ‘what’ that the national curriculum is giving us, with the ‘how’ you teach it and ensure kid’s successful learning through a pedagogical approach, that really engages young people and builds relationships with teachers and other children in the classrooms.
TEFL has been an extremely useful document to us here at Bridgewater Primary School because it has allowed us to concentrate on the language within the book, to help us make sure that children have the opportunity to engage in authentic learning. So that means that they have voice in what they’re learning about, they have choice about how they go about that and that it’s relevant to each and every learner.
We’re ten years in to an exciting journey here at Bridgewater Primary School. It’s been exciting because we’ve had the opportunity to understand a lot about our own view of the language that we use when we’re talking about learning, and especially when we’re looking at the needs of individual children. TEFL had arrived as a framework that has helped us match our thinking with that framework, to increase the depth and breadth of the way that we work with children.
Personal learning is when students choose a topic that they want to pursue. Once they’ve decided on their topic the challenge for them is to weave the other learning areas through their topic and decide the areas that they’re going to pursue.
Well my personal learning plan is on the common cold, I chose it because I had a cold and I wanted to learn about it. It’s changed the way I work because I can actually choose what I want to do instead of just having set work, which is really great.
Learning more about ourselves as learners has been incredibly important for us here at Bridgewater Primary School, and of course taking this in to the classroom to translate that into ‘What does that mean for each and every learner that we work with’, has meant that we viewed learning quite differently. The partnership has become much more meaningful.
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