What is Effective Pedagogy?

Today we started our University class with a bustop activity - "On effective pedagogy.
Bus stop activities get the children moving around. This also enables children to be able to see what others have written down about a topic and add their views on them.
(Page34-35 New Zealand Curriculum)

Teachers are the key to learning and clarity-Teachers must know what  intended learning is in a lesson or series of lesson.

Learning intentions (leanring outcomes)-WALTS

1. What do I want the students to learn.
2. How do I articulate that?
3. what would be a good way of learning it?
4. What do I think a range of excellent finished products would look like
5. They need to be SPECIFIC 

Co-construct learning intention with the students.
Learning intention-User friendly language/child speak.

SUCCESS CRITERIA

1. The learning intention is broken down into mini-goals or ingredients.

Benefits of co-constructing success criteria:

1. Demonstrates the principal of AKO
2. Students become more independent-They have more ownership.
3. Students can decide Criteria which help is needed. 
4. improved achievement when students have seen exemplars and can follow or choose from the success criteria the have generated.
5. High achievers can help lower achievers more effectively.

Ensuring that you give a lot of feedback to children-and the quality of feedback.

Here are photos of the bus stop activity that we did. We looked at the different areas of Effective pedagogy as per the New Zealand Curriculum-Page 34-35.
We looked at the different categories and listed examples.

1. Creating a supportive learning environment
2. Encouraging reflective thought and action
3. Enhancing the relevance of new learning
4. Facilitating shared learning
5. Providing sufficient opportunities to learn 
6. Teaching as inquiry

It was really good to be able to unpack these categories in depth and what it looks like in a classroom context.  It was also good too be able to reflect on Effective Pedagogy and look at how I can implement this more into my classroom and my teaching and learning.