Just finished 2 full days of workshop on PETALS (Pegagogies, Experience of Learning, Tone of Environment, Assessment, Learning Content, Student-Centredness). Though it seems to be another new MOE initiative, but actually it is not. To me, it is nothing new as it is on stuff that teachers are already doing: Pedagogies, assessment, contents etc. So now when those of us who have attended this workshop go back to school, we just need to help teachers align all that they are doing with PETALS.
Some questions that came into my mind while I was going through the workshop:
1) Have my lessons fit into the framework of PETALS?
2) Have I taken care of the P, E, T, A, L aspects in my lessons?
3) How can I help teachers in the Math Dept be more conscious of how they plan and implement their lesson using PETALS?
4) Lesson Study is a powerful tool to provide insights in pupils learning and improve lesson plans. So how can I push the use of this tool in the dept?
5) How can I tap on the talent of the teachers in the Math Dept?
6) How do I measure if a lesson has been carried out effectively?
7) How do I monitor or measure the effectiveness of teaching taking place in the classrooms?
Had a small talk with P on our way home and gotten some advice from him on how can I improve the quality of teachers’ reflections:
1) Select good reflections and share with all in the Dept.
2) If possible, everyone gets at least one reflection being shared.
1 comment:
wow, that's a lot of questions to deal with.
All are important, the trick will be to tackle those that give you the most leverage; the tipping point.
Just wondering if enforcement or monitoring, which is a form of assessment for effective teaching, is a tipping point:
Good programmes are only as effective as the effective teacher in the class. So checking on the effectiveness of teaching taking place in the classrooms seems to be a natural leverage point.
Consider what might be some of the factors or conditions that will make this well-intended strategy undesirable:
(lack of)
- criteria for measuring effectiveness
- understanding or clarity of the criteria
- feedback and follow up to close the identified gaps in effectiveness
- any other factors ?
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