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West Herts Collegeitslearning Training Day 1
Sophia ElliottPedagogical Consultant
Our vision:Help improve education
How?Focus on teaching and learning processes
Who?Focus on teachers and pedagogy
• Support for best practice teaching and learning processes
• The best user experience across browsers, devices and operating systems
• An open platform
itslearning
itslearning’s Strategy!
Utilise the Blended Classroom• Teaching and Learning happens
in several areas
• itslearning is the bridge between these areas
• We help teachers realize the huge potential in the intersections
West Herts College Goals
1) Enhance whole college communication and collaboration for teachers, students and parents
2) Enable greater visibility, management and effectiveness of planning, through the organisation of course information, including resources, schemes of work, targets and homework
3) Enable teachers to enhance teaching and learning by practicing blended learning / distance learning / flipped learning, as well as greater personalisation of learning – encouraging BYOD – MOOC in 2017
4) Meet student expectations; mobile learning access to learning anytime, anywhere, offering and more engaging and flexible education
5) Enable students to be more informed of their educational journey and have greater opportunities to develop their independent learning skills
Implementation Goals – Year 1
Online lesson planning and teaching resources available online – newly created content
Set, mark and access work online, improving student experience
Online teacher and student areas to support communication and collaboration
Starter: Subject Homepage
Enhancing Communication and Promoting Engagement
1) Welcome, engage and inspire students to learning – meeting expectations2) Communicate achievement, share successes, advise on upcoming events, in the news using Bulletin / News boards3) Inform students education journey – industry, careers, targets, objectives, next steps
Introduction: High Quality Learning Resources
Enabling anytime, anywhere access to Learning Materials and Resources: offering a more engaging and flexible education 1) Uploading high quality Resources2) Creating Interactive, Media Rich Support Pages3) Creating Notes - Interactive Word Documents to Structure Learning4) Coming soon – Office Web Apps – Student Collaboration
Development: Creating Activities
Creating Interactive and Assessed Learning Opportunities to promote Independent learning, accessible from any device:1) Assignments – demo of teacher – student – teacher journey2) Feedback – submission status, audio / video feedback and next steps3) Surveys – to capture student voice, gauge understanding, elicit opinion
Plenary: What have you learnt today?
Implementation Goals – Year 1• Online lesson planning and teaching
resources available online • Set, mark and access work online,
improving student experience• Online teacher and student areas to
support communication and collaboration 1) Personalising your Homepage2) Creating high quality resources through Notes and Pages3) Creating Interactive activities – such as Assignments and Surveys
Grab your mobile device and go to: kahoot.it
West Herts Collegeitslearning Training Day 2
Sophia ElliottPedagogical Consultant
Implementation Goals – Year 1
Online lesson planning and teaching resources available online – newly created content
Set, mark and access work online, improving student experience
Online teacher and student areas to support communication and collaboration
Starter: Creating Activities
Creating Interactive and Assessed Learning Opportunities to promote Independent learning, accessible from any device
• Tests – Self Marking Quiz – provide instantaneous, expert feedback
• Discussion Forums – for student collaboration, communication, peer assessment
• Custom Activities – set work which takes place away from a computer
Introduction: Flipped Learning
In preparation for WHC’s blended learning and BYOD strategy – let’s explore Flipped Learning:• greater personalisation of learning• encourages independent learning• supports differentiation
1) What is Flipped Learning?2) Applying Flipped Learning in itslearning
Discuss: Who, When, What, How and Why might you use Flipped Learning in your teaching? Discuss and Plan.
Eg – Trial with BTEC class, next week, to prepare for Unit 2 on Health and Safety – watch video on hazards and respond to poll
Development: Online Planning
Enable greater visibility, management and effectiveness of planning
- Structures learning- Keeps all resources and activities in one
place over one view- SWOT analysis:
StrengthsWeaknessesOpportunitiesThreats (practicalities / barriers to use / considerations)
Collaboration, Best Practice and Sharing Resources + To share outstanding practice, encouraging development of innovative, engaging and high quality ways of working,+ To help save teacher’s time and not reinvent the wheel+ To support more collaboration and team working across the schools
• Using the Staffroom• Using the Library
Plenary: What have you learnt today?
Implementation Goals – Year 1• Online lesson planning and teaching resources
available online • Set, mark and access work online, improving student
experience• Online teacher and student areas to support
communication and collaboration 1) Creating Interactive activities – such as Tests, Online Discussions and Custom Activities2) Explored: What is Flipped Learning and how to apply in itslearning3) Discussed the possibility of online planning using itslearning4) Collaboration – library and staffroom
Grab your mobile device and go to: kahoot.it
