tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post4893176754567886940..comments2024-03-28T00:30:15.013+13:00Comments on Claire Amos: Hack Your Classroom - Week Seven: Handing the power over to the learnersClaire Amoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10579894985450127837noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-32874921322756423462014-06-18T10:54:48.899+12:002014-06-18T10:54:48.899+12:00Well said. A timetable doesn't have a tyranny ...Well said. A timetable doesn't have a tyranny but this takes my much felt need over past decade for teachers to negotiate the spacing of NCEA assessments at year's end for following year on WholeSchoolTimetable to the next level - no, the next paradigm. <br />I see them. I can see them now, coming over the rise, pouring over the hill ... the learners are coming, the learners are surging, learners yearning to learn to learn learn learn. What anarchy! What indiscipline! What deduction, induction, production, production, collaboration, joy, joy, discipline, attention !!! RggggggghhhhhhhhahahahahStevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08248346671537247435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-46087831294008549642014-06-17T19:53:45.973+12:002014-06-17T19:53:45.973+12:00Absolutely!!! Recently, in my acting HOD role, I m...Absolutely!!! Recently, in my acting HOD role, I made a decision that is tip-toeing towards the idea that we should be more concerned about catching students showing evidence of achievement rather than setting a definitive date that they must produce it - creative writers just may not be creative on the day that we want them to be! Students are working on dramatic monologues and a couple of classes are ready to go but the calendared event is Week 1 next term (to give them heaps of time to rehearse). I have given the go ahead to discuss the options with students and let them decide when they are best ready. I have started avoided using the idea of 'disadvantage' and think about how are assessment practices should 'advantage' students.<br />Letting go of the structure is rather scary and, already, students have queried whether they might be being disadvantaged with having slightly different assessment times. The simple answer is 'No' - they are being 'advantaged'.<br />This is a small step but it will take time to dismantle the models of the original NZQA rules and strict conditions of assessment insisted on - even now the spectre of moderation disagreements overshadows our practice.<br /><br />I look forward to learners who are coming through with skills of self-management and ways of showing learning and understanding that I could never imagine. They will teach me heaps and this is exciting - with all the drudgery of admin and reports and marking and marking and marking, this is what keeps me in the classroom. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00395052963246675471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-56778412148398346262014-06-17T19:42:33.545+12:002014-06-17T19:42:33.545+12:00Agree with keeping internal dates open. We wait un...Agree with keeping internal dates open. We wait until the students are ready. Some start earlier, but time constraints make it difficult to have students start too late - lest they run into the next one. But we run extra tutorials to compensate. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18080156113142558675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-18032395292943942872014-06-17T09:26:50.058+12:002014-06-17T09:26:50.058+12:00I lost my comment from feedly arrgh! I agree - agr...I lost my comment from feedly arrgh! I agree - agree - agree, maybe especially because I did NOT teach that way when I was still teaching secondary (admittedly several years back).<br />Given my current role, my question to myself is also how to #hackyrPD for teachers and facilitators....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01534870309495666410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-59970943392064569542014-06-17T06:37:26.046+12:002014-06-17T06:37:26.046+12:00This has been one of my favourite projects / exper...This has been one of my favourite projects / experiments / inquiries this term. Looking forward to getting reports done and out the way so I can sort through my photos and videos and write this week's blog response to this. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-24032266326030909202014-06-16T10:48:17.621+12:002014-06-16T10:48:17.621+12:00Thanks Karyn! Look forward to reading your post.Thanks Karyn! Look forward to reading your post.Claire Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10579894985450127837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6044576021219205068.post-20731313453117181062014-06-16T10:41:49.076+12:002014-06-16T10:41:49.076+12:00This is a fantastic "rant" Claire and hi...This is a fantastic "rant" Claire and hits the heart of everything we are trying to do at TKAS as well.<br /><br />I am sitting in a classroom with Year 6-10 learners all learning- some individually, some collaboratively on truly self selected learning and your "rant" has inspired me to write today about whats happening here. :)Karyn Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13376876817028800357noreply@blogger.com