Using a Responsive Planning approach can help to ensure students experience powerful learning regardless of the learning environment. A Responsive Planning approach is built around three phases of learning that include a learning launch to initiate thinking; building background knowledge; and the application of learning in a meaningful context. This session will provide practical ideas for planning powerful and adaptable learning for all grades and subjects
Far too often in education, lectures are demonized as poor teaching for being the passive delivery of content. This is an unfortunate misconception that fails to appreciate the potential for well delivered lectures to be informative, provocative and efficient. During this session, participants will consider the essential attributes of an effective lecture and will explore strategies for framing and delivering engaging lectures through which students are engaged in critical and creative thinking
