Session 5: All Areas Learning Leads
Effective Teaching, Learning and Leadership Practices for
Knowledge-Building Inclusive Learning Environments.
April 16 Area 1
April 20: Area 2
April 21: Area 4
April 23: Area 5
Focus of the Series:

To cultivate expertise in designing, assessing and leading intellectually engaging learning
environments for teachers and students.
Learning Intentions:
 Cultivate research informed and evidence-based practices for teaching and learning
 Build capacity for designing worthwhile learning tasks and assessment processes for
students in core curricular areas in particular
 Develop practices for making the teaching and learning more visible and accessible
 Develop clear images of effective teacher and student learning in knowledge-building
inclusive environments
 Develop processes for providing teachers with timely, specific and constructive feedback
about teaching and learning in knowledge-building inclusive learning environments
 Develop capacity to support school administrators in leading more effective teaching
practices
 Strengthen professional learning networks
Participants need to bring:
1.
2.
3.
Ti Time
8:30/
12:30
A copy of the Teaching Effectiveness Framework (digital or hard copy):
a. http://www.cea-ace.ca/sites/cea-ace.ca/files/cea-2009-wdydist-teaching.pdf
A hook that will be used to design a new task.
Laptop or tablet for accessing online materials and working collaboratively
Process
Session Learning
Intentions
Welcome and Overview
8:35/
12:35
Identify Learning Intentions and the Discipline
Individually, participants will identify curricular connections,
competencies, and essential questions related to the hook that
they brought forth. Participants will also identify the discipline
and ways of knowing inherent in the discipline.
Further develop ability to
identify learning intentions
as they pertain to
discipline-based task
design.
9:00/
1:00
Sharing Hooks: Speed Task Brainstorm
Teachers will brainstorm task possibilities that address the
learning intentions they outlined. The following questions will
be used to guide this process:
 what might be some task possibilities that are authentic
to the identified discipline?
 where does the topic live in the world?
 who are the experts/expertise in the field? how could
you connect this to student learning?
Build collective capacity
around task design and
assessment.
9:45/
2:15
10:00/
2:30
BREAK
Individual Reflection
Teachers will reflect on the task possibilities they generated with
colleagues.
Deepen understanding of
design principles.
Collaborative Task Design
Teachers will form a design team to generate a design for a
discipline-based task.
Further develop processes
for collaboratively
designing learning tasks
that will engage students.
11:15/
3:15
Task Design Feedback
Participants will receive feedback on their designs.
Obtain feedback to help
inform next learning steps
11:00/
3:20
Next Steps As a part of your school’s leadership team, have a conversation
with your administration about how your school has taken up the
TEF principles. What is working to engage teachers in
collaboration around the principles? What could be worked on?
Come back prepared to discuss the TEF from your school’s
context.
11:30/
3:30
Adjourn