Topic 5 Innovation and Changes

in Education
Innovative teaching strategies
Development of technological teaching
Development of learning environment
Design of resources
Design of assessment and evaluation
Innovative Teaching Strategies
 Innovative Teaching Strategies
1. Move from projects to Project Based Learning
-Engaging in meaningful themes for projects
2. Teach concepts, not facts
- Overcomes the fact-based, rote-oriented
nature of standardized curriculum
3. Distinguish concepts from critical information
4. Make skills as important as knowledge.
 Innovative Teaching Strategies
5. Form teams, not groups.
- Innovation emerges from teams and
networks.
6. Use thinking tools.
- Eg: Provoking problems
7. Use creativity tools.
- Eg: visual exercises or playful games
8.Reward discovery.
9. Make reflection part of the lesson.
Development of technological
teaching
 Cool websites
•Wiki – reading, writing listening

•Glogster – reading, writing

•Prezi - writing

•Cloze builder: Cloze Passage Builders – reading

•Graphic organizers (popplet, bubbl.us, Cayra, Text2MindMap)

•embedding videos in word– reading, listening

•Animation sites – writing

•More animation site - writing

 Twitter - reading, writing

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to

the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply
find the public streams you find most compelling and follow
the conversations.

“Twitter has simply become one of the best places for teachers
to collaborate, share solutions to common classroom problems,
and discuss education policy. In fact, it might just be the best
forum teachers have ever had.” – Liz Dwyer
 Applications in the classroom
1. Tweet about upcoming due dates or assignments.
Set up a feed dedicated exclusively to due dates, tests or quizzes.
2. Coordinate assignments.
Use Twitter to collaborate on different projects and keep a quick
reference on any changes.
3. Set up a foreign language news stream.
Keep foreign language students informed of current events from
relevant nations while challenging them to use their translation
skills by keeping a specific news feed.
4. Connect classrooms.
Teachers and students from around the world can collaborate on
projects using Twitter as a communication tool that educates
students in different classroom and cultural protocols.
 Applications in the classroom

5. Post sample questions.

Use Twitter to post up sample questions for upcoming exams for
students to research and consider
6. Post supplementary materials.
Re-tweet articles, news stories, opinions and other interesting
tidbits relevant to a specific class as an excellent, convenient
supplement to classroom lectures.
7. Facilitate discussions.
Require students to post their own succinct responses to the
main theses and open up discussions with one another.
Development of learning environment

Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

WHAT IS IT?

 Personal collection of tools

Supports:
- Self-directed learning
- Group-based learning
 Designed around each users
needs and goals.
 The outcome of PLE
A learning network is a group of
Professional network
persons who create, share,
generally refers to a
support and study learning
professional network service,
resources (“units of learning”) in a
a virtual community that it is
specific knowledge domain.
focused on professional
interactions.
Social network sites can be defined as web-based
services that allow individuals to:
⑴construct a public or semi-public profile within a
bounded system
⑵articulate a list of other users with whom they
share a connection
⑶view and traverse their list of connections and
those made by others within the system.
 Isolated classrooms VS PLE

Isolated Classrooms.
Lack of relevancy to students’ life
outside the classroom.
Lack of consideration for the
student as an individual.
Technology Devices.
Easily access information.
Store and share content required.
Communicate.
 BENEFITS OF PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT (PLE)

Placing emphasis on individual’s needs

Appeals to different types of learners

Prepares students for higher education and the workforce

Students can learn anywhere at anytime

Design of resources
Interactive Smart Board
Blog
Virtual Library
Web Pages
E-books and E-journals.
Electronic Voting System
• Pupils’ interest
• Sustainability
• Suitable to the content
• Easily assessable
Design of assessment and
evaluation
 Assessment and Evaluation

• Determines students strengths and weaknesses in

achieving course expectations
• Guides teachers in adapting curriculum and
instructional approaches to students’ needs
• Assesses the overall effectiveness of programs and
classroom practices

(Program Planning and Assessment policy document, page 13)

 Diagnostic Assessment

Usually occurs at the beginning of the school

year or before a unit of instruction.
 Purposes of diagnostic assessment

• identify whether students have the prerequisite

knowledge, understanding, or skills;

• provide information to assist in planning appropriate

learning opportunities;

• identify student interests;

• identify misconceptions.
 Formative Assessment

Is ongoing assessment that keeps students,

parents and educators informed of students'
progress.
 Purposes of formative assessment

• provide direction to students in how to improve their

learning;

• encourage students to take responsibility for their own

progress;

• provide teachers with information upon which instructional

modifications can be made;

• help teachers understand the degree to which students are

achieving the learning expectations.
 Summative Assessment

Occurs at the end of a cluster of expectations,

at the end of a unit and at the end of the
course.
 Purposes of summative assessment

• evaluate what has been learned;

• summarize student progress;

• report on progress relative to curriculum

expectations to students and parents.
 Assessment Phase

• use information-gathering strategies to collect

information on student learning;

• use appropriate assessment tools;

• identify and eliminate bias (such as gender and

culture bias) from assessment strategies;

• determine where, when, and how assessments will

be conducted.
 Evaluation Phase

• use professional judgement to interpret assessment

information about student achievement;

• assign a grade;

• report on achievement to students, and parents