LEARNING CAFE Why consider the pace of the

LEARNING CAFE Why consider the pace of the lesson?

Learning café What is learning café? The Learning Café concept is a way of facilitating professional conversation and collaboration in a relaxed environment where staff can come together, discover together, share together and celebrate together. Why have a learning café? A further chance to engage in diverse conversation about teaching and learning, time exploring some new resources, an ICT program or explicit teaching strategy in a supportive way to express ideas, views and challenges that extend our thinking, broaden our understanding and perspective in the context of what we are teaching now, tomorrow or next week.

Why consider the pace of the lesson? Think, Share, Discuss What does pacing a lesson: Look like Sound like Feel like…. to you in a classroom? Pacing the lesson allows me to focus the curriculum delivery on what I want my students to achieve by the end of the lesson, and the quality of the engagement as a result.

Video: Picking up the pace https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QILv 68 sc b. FQ&t=185 s “Where has all the time gone? ” 2 mins: Write down two examples of pace that stood out to you in the video and why?

“Got to do the add-ins. ” Create environment that students can work in Timing of activities with clocks or timers Explicit about what’s expected and by when What success looks like as you go Use exemplars throughout Check for understanding throughout Returning to learning intentions throughout Self-assessment activities

Lets discuss……………. Share how you would apply pace to your lessons to teach a concept/skill or knowledge in a virtual classroom. (eg. In science I need to teach students about diseases that effect the body today. ) What do I want my students to have achieved by the end of our 40 minute lesson? How will I adjust and differentiate the pace of the learning to maximise achievement for my students? How will I know it has been successful?

What strategy do you think you could try that impacts achievement through pacing your online lesson: 1. Be explicit throughout the lesson about what I want the students to achieve next. 2. Be explicit about the success criteria for each activity 3. Use examples or exemplars to show what a completed activity looks like 3. Adjust the timing of and between activities 4. Use an online timer to signal the transitions between activities 5. Have touch points throughout to check for understanding 6. Use thumbs up, to the side or down to check in 7. Use polly on Teams, quiz or kahoot, student conferencing 8. Submissions 9. Feedback – self-assessment, review and reflection

Session two…How did it go? …. • Did the chosen strategy have an impact on student learning achievement? • How did the students/class respond differently/why? • Did you need to change your lesson planning? • Was there a key learning for yourself as result? • Is there another lesson pace strategy you want to try next?