Teaching & Learning annotated bibliography
Teaching & Learning Articles:
Wiggins, G. (2004). Assessment as Feedback. March 2004 New Horizons for Learning. Retrieved 11 September 2007, from http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/assess/wiggins.htm
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). Keys to Learning. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). Retrieved 13 September 2007, from http://www.mcrel.org/keystolearning/default.aspx?tabid=2098
An examination of system level issues regarding what is needed for effective standards to be documented and then transferred to the classroom.
Rowe, K. (2006). Effective teaching practices for students with and without learning difficulties: Constructivism as a legitimate theory of learning AND of teaching. Background paper to keynote address presented at the NSW DET Office of Schools Portfolio Forum, Wilkins Gallery, Sydney, 14 July 2006. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Melbourne, Vic.
(distributed 25th September 2007)
Provides an analysis of research of constructivist approaches and direct instruction, concluding “last 3 lines of abstract”
Hill, P.W. (2003). How to teach better: Pedagogy for deep learning. 2003 Curriculum Corporation Conference, Perth, 17 June 2003.
Breaks the curriculum into four parts:
1. Core curriculum: generic competencies / life-skills.
2. Formal curriculum: disciplinary rules, understanding and methods.
3. Chosen curriculum: by individual teachers and students.
4. Meta-curriculum: activities, events and traditions good schools arrange to promote personal development, character and a community of learners.
Curriculum and pedagogy discussion => generic wanking!!! Emotive; political; platitudes…. Talks a lot about / references a lot of specific strategies and techniques which worked in specific (mostly private) schools and almost advocates their use… same as TQM being a set of strategies leading to failure/ non-success vs. TQM being a philosophy where
Wiggins, G. (2004). Assessment as Feedback. March 2004 New Horizons for Learning. Retrieved 11 September 2007, from http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/assess/wiggins.htm
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). Keys to Learning. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). Retrieved 13 September 2007, from http://www.mcrel.org/keystolearning/default.aspx?tabid=2098
An examination of system level issues regarding what is needed for effective standards to be documented and then transferred to the classroom.
Rowe, K. (2006). Effective teaching practices for students with and without learning difficulties: Constructivism as a legitimate theory of learning AND of teaching. Background paper to keynote address presented at the NSW DET Office of Schools Portfolio Forum, Wilkins Gallery, Sydney, 14 July 2006. Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Melbourne, Vic.
(distributed 25th September 2007)
Provides an analysis of research of constructivist approaches and direct instruction, concluding “last 3 lines of abstract”
Hill, P.W. (2003). How to teach better: Pedagogy for deep learning. 2003 Curriculum Corporation Conference, Perth, 17 June 2003.
Breaks the curriculum into four parts:
1. Core curriculum: generic competencies / life-skills.
2. Formal curriculum: disciplinary rules, understanding and methods.
3. Chosen curriculum: by individual teachers and students.
4. Meta-curriculum: activities, events and traditions good schools arrange to promote personal development, character and a community of learners.
Curriculum and pedagogy discussion => generic wanking!!! Emotive; political; platitudes…. Talks a lot about / references a lot of specific strategies and techniques which worked in specific (mostly private) schools and almost advocates their use… same as TQM being a set of strategies leading to failure/ non-success vs. TQM being a philosophy where