The lecture discussed two topics: teaching and assessment.
The first topic of teaching looked at the National Professional Standards for Teachers. I am amazed how regulated the teaching profession is. In an Educational Foundations lecture, Phil talked about how standards can be informative and set a benchmark, but they can also be prescriptive and limiting.
The seven standards are listed below, along with their domains:
Professional Knowledge
1. Know students and how they learn
2. Know the content and how to teach it
Professional Practice
3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
Professional Engagement
6. Engage in professional learning
7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
The second topic was that of assessment. Various principles were described. It appeared to me that the challenge will be trying to remember a range of the principles, not just a few, when designing assessment tasks.
Hi John
ReplyDeleteI have enjoyed reading ALL of your posts for STS. I love how you relate the learning to your subject area and how you make an assessment in your mind on which issues/areas are important and valid for you and how you will look to use these in your future work. I hope the panel lecture went some way towards answering some of your questions too. Thanks again Kerrie