Capturing wisdom – forming a culture of teaching
By Dr Simon Lindsay, General Manager, Improved Learning Outcomes, Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools. The announcement by the Victorian Government, on 4 May 2021, that Victoria is investing $148 million in an Academy for Victoria’s highly skilled teachers (DET 2021) represents further acknowledgement in recent times of the value of the sophisticated, professional knowledge that teachers…
Assessment & COVID – A teacher led renewal
from CEM Learning Directions It’s like the old saying: You never realise what you’ve got until it’s gone. With our regular face-to-face teaching being taken away in the COVID-19 remote learning environment, we have rediscovered the importance of teachers and teaching perhaps like never before. Families and students agree, with both groups responding overwhelmingly through the recent…
What’s autobiography got to do with it?
the most significant and deeply embedded influences are the images, models, and conceptions of teaching derived from our own experiences as learners. (Brookfield (2017, p. 153) Brookfield (1998) argues that our autobiography as a learner represents one of the most important sources of insight into practice to which we have access. Yet, he argues, in…
Evidence in the moment
This is one of my favourite cartoons, illustrating how teachers can easily make up to 800 micro-decisions a day relating to the teaching and learning of their students. And this image doesn’t even include the different levels of understanding of each student, nor their different interests, nor the different associations that students will make in…
Teaching is complex and sophisticated – my PhD in a nutshell
The knowledge that teachers possess is an essential element in improving educational practice. There has been much research on the multiple types of knowledge that teachers can and should hold, for example, arguments have been made about content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, personal practical knowledge, and teachers’ emotional intelligence, to list but a few. The…
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