Who can support our endeavour
In thinking about the last meeting and who I knew at CES that could support what we were trying to achieve. I invited Danielle Purdy to attend our meeting and see what she could offer in the way of help. Blair also shared some really great things on quality teaching and Kylie also shared her perspective on it. It was still fuzzy for me but I made a real connection with Productive Pedagogies and Rich Tasks from the state system which was a big push while I was doing my studies 12 years ago.
Danielle shared a range of resources that could support us in our endeavour. CES supported PD and other books that she had that we could access from the CES library. She also showed us the swivl that we had discussed getting. So hopefully soon we could get one to video our practice. As a group we really discussed and realised that this project was getting to be bigger than Ben Hur and that if we didnt really define our purpose well then we could go in many different directions. We really came to the conclusion that we needed to define 3-5 aspects of a quality teacher that we would focus on and then refine our own practice in those areas and then develop resources - videos that help other teachers go through that process. So our job between now and next meeting is to list the five key things that are imperitive to being a quality teacher.
