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The document discusses implementing quality teaching tools and strategies to promote high expectations in the classroom. It provides examples of tools like rubrics, Bloom's taxonomy, and portfolios that teachers can use. It also shares a wiki website with additional resources and encourages teachers to share examples of student work using the strategies. Teachers are welcomed to request additional support or provide feedback on the newsletter.

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High Expectations

The document discusses implementing quality teaching tools and strategies to promote high expectations in the classroom. It provides examples of tools like rubrics, Bloom's taxonomy, and portfolios that teachers can use. It also shares a wiki website with additional resources and encourages teachers to share examples of student work using the strategies. Teachers are welcomed to request additional support or provide feedback on the newsletter.

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QUALITY TEACHING

@ BHHS
I hope you all enjoyed the first edition of the Quality Teaching
newsletter on Higher Order Thinking. I also hope you took the
time to look at most of the teaching tools to enhance student The website address is
learning and are taking risks in your classroom to use the tools. https://qualityteachingbhhs.wikispaces.com/. The wiki includes
Quality Teaching documents, tools, KLA specific material and
When you use some of the teaching strategies or tools in your the fortnightly newsletter. This resource will be constantly
classroom, can you photocopy some student work and place it in updated with new, up to date information. If you would like
my pigeon hole. This will allow me to show other teachers how anything added for the benefit of the faculty or staff, please
quality teaching tools can be implemented into lesson plans and let me know.
programs
If you would like to see anything else in the newsletters please
Just a reminder about the BHHS Quality Teaching Wiki I have let me know. Also, if you would like more assistance with quality
created. It is excellent to here that teachers have been on the teaching, programming, assessment, ICT, numeracy and literacy
site and found it useful. During the past fortnight I have please see your HT or myself.
uploaded new tools onto the wiki.

Thanks,
Leanne
QUALITY LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Quality learning environment refers to pedagogy that creates classrooms where students and teachers work productively
in an environment clearly focused on learning. Such pedagogy sets high and explicit expectations and develops positive
relationships between teachers and students and among students.

Expectations are high when teachers (or students) communicate the expectation that all members of the class can learn
important knowledge and skills that are challenging for them. Students are encouraged and recognised for taking conceptual
or other risks in learning. Expectations are also high when students at all levels are expected, and try, to master challenging
work whether the challenge is intellectual, physical or performance-based.

Expectations are low when little is asked of students in terms of conceptual challenge or risk taking. They are also low when
teachers (or students) communicate that they do not expect some students to be able to do the work.
CODING LESSONS ON HIGH EXPECTATIONS:
What do your lessons look like?
1 – Low Expectations 2 3 4 5 – High Expecations
No students, or only a Some students Many students participate Most students All students participate
few, participate in any participate in challenging in challenging work during participate in in challenging work
challenging work. work during at least some at least half of the lesson. challenging work during throughout the lesson.
of the lesson. They are They are encouraged most of the lesson. They are encouraged
encouraged (explicitly or (explicitly or through They are encouraged (explicitly or through
through lesson lesson processes) to try (explicitly or through lesson processes) to try
processes) to try hard hard and to take risks and lesson processes) to hard and to take risks
and to take risks and are are recognised for doing try hard and to take and are recognised for
recognised for doing so. so. risks and are doing so.
recognised for doing so.

CODING ASSESSMENT TASKS ON HIGH EXPECTATIONS:


What do your assessment tasks look like?
1 – Low Expectations 2 3 4 5 – High Expecations
The task does not The task presents some The task presents some The task presents a The task presents
require students to challenging work for challenging work for most serious challenge for all serious challenges to all
participate in any some students. students. students. students, and
challenging work. encourages them to take
risks in demonstrating
their learning.
WHAT DOES HIGH EXPECTATIONS LOOK LIKE IN A
CLASSROOM:
High expectations of all students are communicated, and conceptual risk taking is encouraged
and rewarded.

WHAT DOES HIGHER ORDER THINKING LOOK LIKE IN


AN ASSESSMENT TASK:
Tasks demonstrate that high expectations are expected of all students and conceptual risk
taking is encouraged and rewarded.
TOOLS/STRATEGIES TO IMPLEMENT INTO CLASSROOM PRACTICE
AND PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS
Click on web links to open tools/strategies. Attachments on the email will be for the ‘see attachments’ tools/strategies. If you would
like any assistance with using these tools and strategies in the classroom, please let me know and I’m more then happy to come and
assist. Also, if you would like any more information, please ask.

Thinking tool Description Web links

To help students meet rigorous course standards in academic classrooms, http://www.scribd.com/doc/34


10 strategies for
each teacher must establish and mainstream a learning environment that 835746/Ten-Strategies-for-
creating a classroom
supports and motivates students to do their best. This resource is a set of 10 Creating-a-Classroom-Culture-
culture of High
strategies to create a culture of high expectations of-High-Expectations
Expectations

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

http://www.teach-
A rubric is an authentic assessment tool used to measure students' work.
nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
It is a scoring guide that seeks to evaluate a student's performance.
Marking Rubrics
A rubric is a working guide for students and teachers, usually handed out with the assignment begins in order to get students
http://myt4l.com/index.php?v=
criteria on which their work will be judged.
pl&page_ac=view&type=tools&t
ool=rubricmaker

A tool for categorising questions and activities according to six levels of Bloom's digital taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy
thinking: remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and
creating

An ePortfolio is a Web-based repository of information, examples and http://712educators.about.co


evidence related to your skills, interests, personal attributes, and m/od/portfolios/a/portfolio_it
achievements. em.htm
Portfolio’s
Student ePortfolio also enables you to publish examples of work and other http://www.studenteportfolio.
relevant documents that demonstrate your skills and provide evidence of your qut.edu.au/
achievements. Abode eportfolio
LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES TO IMPLEMENT INTO CLASSROOM
PRACTICE AND PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS
AND STUDENT LEARNING
TOOL DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES EDUCATIONAL
APPLICATION
Learning Support Tools Any piece of hardware, Clicker5 A classroom teacher uses
software and or web 2.0 tools ClaroRead5 Boardmaker to create a visual
that assists students with EduApps daily timetable for students.
diverse learning needs either in Wordahead
the mainstream classroom and Writing Fix A student who is visually
or special school setting. Weboword impaired uses ClaroRead5 while
Vozme researching an assessment task
Visual Dictionary to have the information read to
Ghotit him from the Internet.
Grammar Ninja
Boardmaker A student who is intellectually
One More Story impaired uses 2Simple Software
2Simple Software to construct a simple timeline
Lingro of herr life.
Mingoville
Babelewith.me An ESL student uses Lingro to
Maths Dictionary for Kids assist with translation and
Zac Browser language development whilst
learning English.

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