Community consultation and engagement At CPAHS, we have worked hard over a number of years to rethink learning experiences for our students. We have tried, evaluated and implemented new and emerging pedagogies; used design thinking processes to identify and prototype solutions to challenges before scaling them; developed a framework...
In its 10th year, the U@Uni Summer School program has provided hands on inquiry based learning for year 11 students for over a decade. This year the newly developed Creative Intelligence summer school has seen students use design thinking and entrepreneurial skills in a transdiscplinary way to develop a...
Nagiha Sahyouni is the head of year 7 teacher at Doonside Technology High School and shares with us her ten tips to plan effective project based learning (PBL) with staff at your school. 1. Gather scope and sequences from all faculties. 2. Find a theme to connect subject areas. 3....
It's holiday time and like many in the education sector I am catching up on a little reading! Here are my favs at the moment.
The teaching world almost (finally) has a chance to stop, take a break and reflect upon the crazy, tiring but rewarding year that has been. It’s important at this time to think about your achievements as a teacher and the major impact that you have had on so many...
Students began the investigation by watching a launch video that revealed the driving question: How can we as individuals in our community effectively contribute to tiger conservation? The video, a collaboration between DSODE teachers, the Education Officer and the Big Cat Keepers from TWPZ, set the scene and importantly,...
Which specific skills tomorrow’s professions will call for is uncertain, as technology transforms the professional landscape at an unprecedented rate. Not just individual jobs but entire sectors are at risk of becoming obsolete. While technological advancements are opening up new specialties elsewhere, they will be available with those who are...
Teacher Name: Natalie Littler Subject/s area: PDHPE How does your school use project based learning (PBL)? Our school has been running PBL for two years now. We started with year 7 last year and continued into year 8 this year. All faculties develop their own PBL and complete one...
Following field trips to the Powerhouse Museum and Questacon and the realisation that many students could simply not make these trips, I decided to create an inquiry based learning inspired space at school dubbed the WPGH Exploratorium. Utilising advice I had received from my colleagues, mentors at the Australian...
We asked Jana, teacher at Central Sydney Intensive English High School a couple of questions about the project….. What was the project about? Our students are in an Intensive English high school and they needed to learn how to explain concepts about the human body in English. For their...
