Pedagogy Clips

Quality vids relating to pedagogy:

• Agentic Position (a teacher has agency, can make a difference, no deficit theorising)

http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/content/download/487/3242/version/14/file/01_JohnsStory_TKI+MP4.mp4

• OK, this is more than just pedagogy, but there's loads of good pedagogy in it :)

• Confident classroom leadership 
• http://www.slideshare.net/TCDLTD/confident-classroom-leadership-short
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq1PwRLxWac
• >Effective Strategies for Middle School Learners (11-12 year-olds) (6 min)
• >Inclusion - teaching special needs in your general class (19 min)
• >A practical way to help underachievers - connecting PE and English classes. (5 min)
• >Real Learning: It's bigger than inquiry - Lane Clark (1 hour) - this one is really worthwhile, Lane Clark was presenting at ICOT13 and shows HOW to engineer the classwork so the kids take ownership, but still GUIDE it so it's not child-centred.
• >Brainstorming - the rules to make it more effective (2 min)
• >Secondary English - students plan the year's work, after-school tutorials, student's responsible for assessment (4 min)
• >Assessment data - using it, showing it to the students (5 min)
• >Behaviour Management! (interesting...) (4 min)
• The NEW NZ curriculum - maths, middle secondary
• >the new curriculum, the key competencies, 3 week units, teaching as a team, (5 min) 
• >Spending funding on freeing teachers to watch other teachers, weekly meetings, working together... (4 min)
• >the new maths curriculum - aligning the standards (5 min)
• >Connected learning - Wellington High School (10 min)

Carol Dweck - start at time 1:20 for fixed mindset vs growth mindset explanation & examples.

DRIVE - do rewards help at all? People do the best stuff just because they want to....challenge, mastery, making a contribution, transcendent purpose

Linda Darling-Hammond - adviser to Obama, ex secondary teacher, how to make a difference as a school, as a teacher.

LANGUAGE

The following vids were especially for EAL (English Additional Language) learners, who seem to be in almost every classroom in NZ (i.e. English is not their first language) - however these principles work well for everyone! These are not available on the web, so I have embedded them here.

 

This is a secondary geography class - first they do a 'language survey' to assess language ability. This is called
anticipatory guide. (see for more on this þhttp://esolonline.tki.org.nz/ESOL-Online/Teacher-needs/Pedagogy/ESOL-teaching-strategies/Reading/Anticipatory-reading-guides)

Cultural diversity (click on description...):

http://domesticscene.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/domestic-reo-17-kei-a-wai-shapes-game/

 

• These two are Anjali's story part 1 & 2 - Indian teacher going from failure to success with Maori students - very inspiring...
• For more like Anjali's story see the webpage >http://tekotahitanga.tki.org.nz/Videos/Teacher-stories/Jane-s-story and choose from all the different stories implementing the Te Kotahitanga program.
• >Pasifika kids - their lives at church, school, home and cultural community - clashes and overlaps