TfEL+Resources

__**Domain 1: Leaders create learning opportunities for staff**__
Learning Design (DECD) – Leaders Resource for Australian Curriculum and TfEL Assessment and Reporting Resources Australian Curriculum - resources designed to engage staff in learning about reporting and assessing against the Australian Curriculum. Twitter – the best free professional development you will ever get! Teachers need Twitter Twitter For Educators – everything you wanted to know! The Differentiator Blooms Taxonomy - quickly design tasks using Blooms Revised Taxonomy. Project Based Learning - Welcome to PBL-Online, a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You’ll find all the resources you need to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students. Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation TED Talk - an example of how powerful the internet can be as a learning tool. Ken Robinson says schools are killing creativity TED Talk 2006 - Funny and thought provoking. //“Creativity is as important as literacy”,// //“If your not prepared to be wrong you will come up with nothing creative”,// Ken Robinson//.// Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! TED Talk 2010 Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover TED Talk - If you teach maths with a text book is this a paint by numbers process robbing kids of a more important skill……… Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes. TED Talk - authentic learning, learning from mistakes – to always have the right answer never allows you to learn, information is everywhere. Tim Brown on creatvity and play TED Talk - the importance of creative play. How do you encourage creative play in your classroom? Dylan Williams: Grades - Watch the students verbal and physical reactions to the grades they recieve. The grade seems to be determining the students self worth which then forms their attitude to that subject. If we have to provide grades how can we do it in a way that supports the student. Chris Lehmann TEDx 2010 - What our schools should be like. Passionate and thought provoking talk.
 * Scoop.it! ** Have you seen a Scoop.it! web page before? If not take a look at the ones below. Scoop.it! is an online program that allows an individul to bring articles, blog posts etc from all over the Internet, generally about a specific topic and put them together in one place. An easy way to get all your professional reading on a topic without searching the Internet for hours. Maybe try out your own Scoop.it! searches.
 * Digital Literacy – Education Scoop.it!
 * 21st Century Education for 21st Century Educators Scoop.it!
 * Blooms Taxonomy Scoop.it! Presented Visually Scoop.it!
 * Primary School Teaching Scoop.it! Want to keep up with current thoughts and ideas about teaching in a primary school?
 * English Classes Scoop.it! upper primary/secondary
 * Math PD Scoop.it! Primary and secondary math articles, videos, blog posts and more. Keep up to date with what is out there about maths.
 * 21st Century Arts Education Scoop.it! Interested in the Arts and technology or the Arts in general?
 * Music Education and Techology
 * Science Elemantary Scoop.it! Primary science.
 * Secondary Science Resources Scoop.it!
 * Cook Great Food Scoop.it! Lots of stuff for food technology teachers.
 * 21st Century Physical Education

__**Domain 2: Create safe conditions for rigorous learning**__
Do you think about how your classroom is set up? //Build a community of learners// The classroom experiment lollipop sticks PART 1 – Does the hands up method allow for all students to learn equally? //Support and challenge students to achieve high standards// The classroom experiment lollipop sticks PART 2 //Support and challenge students to achieve high standards// Dylan Wiliam – The Classroom Experiment part 1. Dylan Wiliam – The Classroom Experiment part 2. In this two-part series, theory and practice meet head on as education expert Professor Dylan Wiliam sets up an experimental school classroom. For one term, he takes over a Year 8 class to test simple ideas that he believes could improve the quality of our children’s education. Great practical ideas.

__**Domain 3: Develop expert learners**__
Do you use movement to help your students learn? Action Based Learning Is your classroom an innovative learning environment? Formative Feedback App - Students working with each other to improve using an iPad app. In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise – do you hand out fuzzy heart warming unearned praise? Rethinking letter grades - promote dialouge as a means of learning not a single grade. Ask 500 People - use this site to connect your students to the views of others. Promote dialouge as a means of learning. Predicting answers leads to deeper learning //Foster deep understanding and skilful action//

__**Domain 4: Personalise and connect learning**__
iPads for Education -What an awesome resource if you have an iPad and want to use it in the classroom! Victorian Department for Education and Early Childhood Development. //Communicate and learn in multiple modes// Differentiated Instruction - a tip sheet. //Build on learners understandings// Differentiation for high ability learners - wide range of reading and resources. The Differentiator Blooms Taxonomy – quickly design tasks using Blooms Revised Taxonomy. The Death of Monolithic Teaching - A blog post about Differentiated Instruction with useful video. //Build on learners understandings// Do you consider the world your students are growing up in? //Apply and assess learning in authentic contexts// Do you create authentic learning opportunities for your students? //Apply and assess learning in authentic contexts// Ways to cater for students learning individualisation, personalisation and differentiation U.S. Department of Education defines individualisation, Personalisation and differentiation. Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning TED Talk Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning (science) TED Talk Student led parent conferences Alfie Kohn on “Feel-Bad Education” - //“In a progressive school kids are typically wrestling with real ideas, understanding ideas from the inside out, to think like scientists and historians ………” //Apply and assess learning in authentic contexts////