Teaching Practice
Teaching Practice Resources
PASS Effective Learning Action Research
Lik lik lain wantaim
The Effective Learning Action Research (ELAR) activity is a five-week action research program exploring innovative classroom practices for effective teaching and learning, using a rapid action research approach. The focus of this activity will be how to better engage girls in STEM and is targeted at Science, Maths and Technology teachers. The program is supported by the Girls in STEM Toolkit developed by Education Services Australia.
PASS Essential Pedagogies Toolkit
Tulkit bilong ol samting long lainim
Developed by Chris Harte, Director of Unstuck Learning and PASS Learning Designer & Facilitator, this course provides a teaching toolkit of essential pedagogies.
By undertaking this course, teachers will:
develop a deeper understanding of resilient learner-centred pedagogical approaches that are applicable in synchronous, asynchronous and blended contexts
have a set of strategies and tools to support them in building learning experiences, understanding the role of formative assessment and including learner agency in their pedagogical approaches
PASS Learner Centred Pedagogies and Project Based Learning
Lainim lo wei belong skulim ol lain i laik kisim save na kisim skul bihanim wok projek
Be part of the crew exploring the world of project-based learning. Students are at the centre of their learning and puts you into the position of being a learning experience designer.
By the end of this course, teachers will:
Understand the principles of learner-centred pedagogies.
Understand the principles and process of project-based learning (PBL) design.
Develop a project plan which demonstrates learner-centred pedagogies and a project-based approach.
The Learning Journal provided for the learner centred pedagogies workshop delivered to PASS PNG participants in March 2020, explores the world of project-based learning which puts students at the centre of their learning and puts teachers into the position of being a learning experience designer. Estimated time to complete the course: 16 hours.
PNG ELO __ Learning Journal.pdfPASS Shark Tank eSchool
Sak Tank
Shark Tank is an action-learning program that develops the future skills of entrepreneurial thinking and mindset. It is focused on how to work as a team, collaborate with others, develop interpersonal skills, collect, analyse and use data and develop problem-solving techniques.
PASS Teaching and Learning Strategies from Australian Participants
View full list of Teaching and Learning Strategies here
In this Google Drive folder, you will find some resources around teaching and learning strategies shared by PASS Australian educators, including:
Data Analysis for Reflective Practices: These documents are utilised to document short (Pre-/Post-test template), medium (Data Discussion/Data Reflection Tool) and longer (Academic Achievement and Engagement Data) term data sets of student achievement. They are utilised best when teachers document their own data sets and share with their colleagues to stimulate reflective conversations and inform best practice pedagogy and modifications to work programs and assessment tasks.
'Sum it up': a resource to support summarising/formative assessment of student understanding. This resource (and others) are best built into a routine. It will work best when students are 'trained' how to utilise this activity. Regularly incorporating this and scaffolding how this could be done (starting with lots of support) will lead to more independent completion of this activity. This would be great used at the end of a lesson where a new concept or idea has been put forward - as an exit slip.
Closure Frame: This provides a framework to support building more extended responses and also supports formative assessment of new concepts or understanding. It could also be used for data that staff can use to gauge new concept take up, etc. This would be great as a template as a learning journal - where students regularly write about what they have learned and its relevance etc.
What Works Best: These resources are used by NSW school teachers to develop their practice - using evidence based strategies. There is a an article that should be read in collaboration with colleagues and then a reflective tool that helps identify areas that individual teachers would like to develop.
Exit slips: These templates are used to stimulate exit slip creation for formative assessment of concepts and skills covered in a lesson or could be used to pre-test a concept to be covered in the next class.
Concept Maps: These three templates can be used to link ideas or concepts. You can start with an inquiry question in the centre and work on developing different points of view from the start. These can also be used as scaffolds/graphic organisers that can be used when reviewing text - so each box or bubble could represent a paragraph or heading and students can fill in the main ideas.
Toolkit suggestions: A toolkit for teachers for building rigorous classrooms based on Barbara Blackburn's work. This is a booklet given to HAHS staff as part of a professional learning activity created at school aimed at maintaining and developing rigorous learning activities - ensuring appropriate challenge. It contains a variety of teaching strategies. Also included is the Symposium powerpoint presentation used with HAHS staff during this learning.
These resources have been shared by PASS Australian participants, Dan O'Brien from Bundaberg SHS and Sharon Davis from Hurlstone Agricultural HS.
AEF Intercultural Understanding Toolkit
Intercultural understanding has become fundamental to education in a diverse and interconnected world. This toolkit by AEF includes information and resources to support you to address the Intercultural understanding general capability in the classroom.
AITSL Spotlight – What Works in Online/Distance Teaching and Learning?
This AITSL Spotlight identifies best practice evidence to guide teachers on setting up online learning and advice teachers can give to parents during this process. Key consideration is given to principles demonstrated to benefit student outcomes and wellbeing.
AITSL Spotlight_What works in online distance teaching and learning.pdfEducator on Board
CSIRO is Australia’s major science agency with an extensive website for teachers. See:
15 Educator on Board curriculum units developed by Australian teachers for marine Science studies. Units include Volcanoes of Eastern Australia, Storm Chasers – how heat and convection help to form storm clouds and Toxic Algae STEM Investigation. Available here.
Our Knowledge Our Way – Indigenous-led approaches to strengthening and sharing our knowledge for land and sea management. Available here.
Using Educational Datasets Guide for using data in a classroom with ideas on using, gathering and exploring data and datasets including datasets such as Great Barrier Reef carbon dioxide measurements and Global Mean Sea Level data from 1880-2009. Available here.
Gender Equity in Schools Resource Book
This resource book was developed by the PNG Department of Education to support the implementation of the Gender Equity policy.
The Future of Work
The future of work looks exciting. New careers and ways of working are opening up as new technology is introduced and globalisation continues. These changes will reshape the nature of work itself. Teachers need to understand these changes in order to help young people understand what the future of work could look like.
The Australian Government’s My Future website contains resources for students and teachers. Click the following link to see resources on the future of work including 5 Things to Know About the Future of Jobs from the World Economic Forum and 25 emerging occupations identified by the Australian National Skills Commission.
Mainstreaming Gender Equality
Tool 13 of the UNESCO Gender in Education Network in Asia-Pacific (GENIA) toolkit is about mainstreaming gender equality in primary and secondary schools.
Online Teaching Toolkit
This Online Teaching Toolkit – Making it happen has been developed to help schools navigate the challenges of online learning; equipping teachers with a new set of possibilities to assist them rapidly adjust and tailor their practices.
Passion Toolkit
Research shows that passion can drive and develop deep learning, and help to change the paradigm from one of success and failure to one where growth and motivation are celebrated.
The Passion Toolkit, developed by schools in Australia, is a step-by-step approach to assist students to identify and know their passions, and for teachers to better know their students and develop the joy of learning.
The Spiral Playbook
Supporting teachers to make classroom change: The Spirals of Enquiry Playbook
The Spiral Playbook is in wide use with teachers and education systems around the world and is useful for PASS Professional Learning Networks. The central argument in the playbook is that curiosity propels change. Creating the conditions in school districts and learning settings where curiosity is encouraged, developed and sustained is essential to opening up thinking, changing practice, and creating dramatically more innovative approaches to learning, teaching and leadership.
The Spiral Playbook introduces you to the key ideas for setting a spiral of inquiry in motion with your team, and for building an inquiry learning network.
Spiral-Playbook.pdfTeaching and Learning Toolkit
The Teaching & Learning Toolkit summarises the global evidence base on 35 different approaches to lift learning outcomes in schools. You can view all approaches, see approaches relevant to primary or secondary schools or look at approaches by school management area.
