1. Know Students

Content in this category evidences my ability to cover Standard 1 - Know students and how they learn. This will include the following focuses:

1. Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
2. Understand how students learn
3. Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
4. Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
5. Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
6. Strategies to support full participation of students with disability

Learning how to reflect with the standards

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2022/05/18/learning-how-to-reflect-with-the-standards/

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Professional LEarning with Selena on how to create evidence

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2021/11/06/professional-learning-with-selena-on-how-to-create-evidence/

I attended a professional development session with Selena Woodward today.  We talked about how to create evidence of practice.. story first… standards second. WE talked a about how Edufolios can help me to reduce my workload because it has these great tools in it that tell me what standards I am hitting and then which […]

Manly Vale

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2021/08/26/manly-vale/

I am attending a PD session with Selena Woodward.  We are exploring how to use  Edufolios so that we can record our professional development and be even more fabulous than we already are…  Is that even possible?? lesssons BRAVING – Brene Brown resource  

Using Breakout Rooms in OneNote to teach elements of the ICT General Capability

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2021/08/01/using-breakout-rooms-in-onenote-to-teach-elements-of-the-ict-general-capability/

To create a sense of shared responsibility for learning, I wanted to create a learning activity where students would have to research in small groups and work interdependently to succeed (meet the learning objective)/. There is a large body of content to cover in a relatively short time in EDUC9404 and so, rather than deliver […]

Year 9 – Walking Through POV Exercise

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2021/02/03/year-9-walking-through-pov-exercise/

Last week, our faculty teamed up with the HASS department and we observed each other.  See this post for details.  One of the pedagogies that really caught my eye as I observed my colleague was something called a walkthrough.  Mr McMillan took an event from history and asked his students to walk in the steps […]

Changes to Assessment Rubrics – 9404

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2019/11/29/changes-to-assessment-rubrics-9404-2019/

Another year has flown by and I have just submitted the grades for yet another group of awesome pre-service teachers here in Adelaide. EDUC9404 has wrapped up for 2019. This will be a long post. I have a lot of notes that I’ve been keeping that now need to be collected and reflected upon. This […]

Running STEM PD for The LEAH STEM group.

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2019/08/10/running-stem-pd-for-the-leah-stem-group/

I am regularly asked to run professional development days for schools and in the July holidays I was asked to work with the LEAH STEM Action group in the Adelaide Hills. It was an absolute pleasure to work with them to explore technology through Multiple Lenses.   I ran three sessions with them covering: Speaking Pedagogically ( […]

MIE Expert Forum – Day 2

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2019/06/05/mie-expert-forum-day-2/

Day two of the MIE Expert Forum saw us connecting with some of the leaders of the Microsoft ship and some of their engineers.  It was a day full of inspiration and some information that I am not allowed to share… it isn’t public knowledge yet.. we’ll all just have to wait.  I can tell […]

STUDY- Growing Up Gifted – Concepts of Intelligence, Giftedness, Talent and Talent Development

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2018/10/03/study-growing-up-gifted-concepts-of-intelligence-giftedness-talent-and-talent-development/

This post is my response to the “check your understanding” section of Chapter 2 of “Growing up Gifted” by Barbara Clark. The chapter focused on concepts of intelligence, giftedness, talent and talent development.  I chose to read this chapter as my son has recently been identified as a gifted child.  The school he was working […]

First week with Teams and Onenote – Scaffolding this new tool

https://edufolios.org/selenawoodward/2018/07/28/first-week-with-teams-and-onenote-scaffolding-this-new-tool/

This week I’ve introduced my students to Microsoft Teams and Onenote. They’ve also had a little play with Forms as I used this to assess their reading and guide their thinking.  This post is to summarise my preparation, the actual delivery and the key learning moments from this first week. Scaffolding the Use of the […]