Peeling The Onion - ​Empowering Teachers through Curriculum Development

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Brenda (Science teacher) had a dilemma: “is there sufficient scaffolding in our current project design to ensure all students are successful at some level? What are we missing that would make this a stronger experience for all students? What do we need to strengthen or add onto the Science of Separation unit?" The Science department investigated and unpacked these dilemmas in a half day workshop recently led by me. And together with the Library team, supported her through using structured protocols to introduce a researched focused ICT task that is authentic, challenging, and engaging.

Activities used during the workshop included:

• Pre-flection
• Peeling the Onion: Defining a Problem Protocol
• Tuning Protocol: Examining Adult Work
• Fish Bones
• Chalk Talk

This website was our home-base and contains all the protocols and activities from the day.

Other workshops in this series include:

• PDHPE: Teachers being Students - Learning through Empathy
• Languages: Making Learning Visible - ​Language teachers playing Masterchef