Leader of Pedagogy

Welcome back to Term 2!

As we settled back into learning, staff began this term with a Professional Development Day focused on the key aspects of the Co-Teaching Model and consolidating previous development on Lyn Sharatt’s ‘Third Teacher’. These key aspects include:

• Co-Planning
• Co-Teaching
• Co-Debriefing and Reflecting
• The Third Teacher

Part of committing to the co-teaching model is the clear focus on teachers co-planning together in order to explore the learning goals and activities for students. As part of Lyn Sharatt’s 14 Parameters embedded in Clarity, co-teaching allows us to recommit to the following parameters that have been a core part of teaching at O’Connor over the last 5 years.

Two of these parameters are:

1. Shared Belief and Understanding
   1. All students can achieve high standards given the right time and the right support

    14. Shared Responsibility and Accountability

                a. We all own all the FACES!

It is this commitment that allows for co-teaching to be successful as each planning, debriefing or reflecting session is focused on the students shared amongst the group and how the team of teachers can work together in order to move their learning forward. Throughout the school there are a range of classes utilising the co-teaching model to deliver content from teachers who are experts in their key learning area, and utilising open learning spaces to shape the ways in which students are learning in both social, guided and independent groups. 

Ms Lauren Donnelly

Acting Leader of Pedagogy