Facilitating Student Learning

From Lecturer to Facilitator: optimising student outcomes and experience

In this recording, Leanne Courtney and Mike Kennedy discuss their project to optimise student outcomes and experience in the PYP classroom and it’s outcomes.

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Break it down: How to exploit a model text

Why use a model text? Because it’s unfair to ask students to produce any writing without giving them a model first! Richard Ingold explains.

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Discover and discuss: Supporting teachers to address diversity in the classroom

In this recording, Nadina Dodd and Sharla Reid discuss issues teachers are facing amidst emerging mental health concerns and their strategies to support teachers.

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Appsolutely! Create your own online interactive whiteboard with Padlet

In this recording, Daniel Moon and Hamad Khan introduce Padlet and how it can be used to increase engagement and some show some examples.

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Break it down: Exploiting a model text

In this recording, Richard Ingold shares a detailed 4-stage process of how to introduce and use a model text with students.

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Appsolutely! Creating interactive presentations with Nearpod and VoiceThread

In this recording, Fiona Perry gives a brief introduction to both tools, how it might be used in teaching and shares some examples.

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All aboard! Effective starters for your first lesson with a new cohort

Three useful strategies to help start a class and achieve not only academic and behavioural engagement but emotional engagement too.

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Break it down: Exploiting a model text

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Appsolutely! Visualise your students’ feedback with AnswerGarden

In this recording, Julie Porter-Stephens outlines how AnswerGarden can be a fun and interactive tool to increase engagement across several areas of teaching and learning.

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Creating (or recreating) an online student lounge

See inside an online student lounge with Julia Gobel. It’s designed for ACAP students to interact with staff and each other and, hopefully, to be enjoyed as a community space.

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‘It’s affirmative’: Student debates are a great alternative to presentations

If you’re still battling death by PowerPoint, why not design a better assessment? SIBT’s Karen McRae swapped presentations for debates, with some lively results!

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