Esra Smerdon

Students who set their own goals and get regular feedback on progress have higher levels of achievement in general, beyond only the goals they set (Hattie, 2009; Henderlong, et al., 2007). Here is a student goal setting sheet. Feel free to use. #LeadInclusion #education #edchat

**shaking! 🤦‍♀️nothing like an end of term tired teacher…ready to rock and roll Term 4 @ArousiagMoussa

And that’s a wrap for Term 3 with ice-cream for everyone. Our younger design and engineers successfully made ice-cream. There was lots of shacking, but most got there in the end. #inquiry #STEM #engineering #designthinking

Critical & creative thinking on overdrive. Ss working collaboratively to communicate and solve an authentic & meaningful problem. Makes my 💙🖤 🎤 🎶…proud moments leading to the end of the term. Bring on Friday🍦 #inquiry #engineering #designthinking #STEM

Exploring Ss wonderment & curiosity before designing & engineering for our STEM Inquiry. How does salt affect ice & supercooling. #STEM #inquirylearning #IBL #curiosity #wonderment #studentvoice

TEACHERS: beautiful new resource @NSWEducation @AISNSWPrimary @tgnsw @STANSW_YS @stansw @TrishR99 @es_learning @tonialgray this useful resource aligns with syllabus content in various disciplines #sustainability #STEM #waterstories #mappingedges #aussieED storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cbfa95…

Come join us on Monday Sept 19th at 6.30pm @SydneyTheatreCo for "Chalkface" and the conversation that follows, Drama Theatre @SydOperaHouse sydneytheatre.com.au/education/even… @stringer_andrea @SusanWystt @sophiepoisel @AGavrielatos @SCUonline

@ms_ghaf Love his hair!

Mr Fluffy reading in his sisters Homebase! #edweek@bvps

A sneak peak at Ss (David Attenborough in the making) using @Doink to film their documentary about Australian and local animals whose environment is being impacted by recent weather change. @TriciaFuglestad #inquiry #STEM

@stephygsalazar @AusSchoolsPlus Congratulations Stephy!

I have finally processed what has happened over the past few days and feel extremely grateful to be recognised in this way. Thank you @AusSchoolsPlus for recognising the impact that my school’s work has on teachers’ and students’ lives. 🙏🏽 #teacherschangelives

@DeputyGrocott I created a my tree using thick good quality brown wrapping paper. I layered & twisted it to make the trunk & branches. Cut leaves from green coloured paper & crape paper. I integrated it across most learning areas. Not just a decoration. It was purposeful. Had it for 2yrs.

If you’ve ever made a lovely fake tree in your book corner, what did you buy for the leaves and how did you do the trunk? Something like this is what I imagine…

Another one-pager gem from @MrGoodwin23. And here's the original post: Five Ways to Scaffold Classroom Dialogue teacherhead.com/2021/12/01/fiv…

@jeanicesoliman @kjinquiry It is brilliant as it has practical ideas! It’s a must read and have for all inquiry schools.

Yay, my copy has arrived. Cannot wait to get into! #inquiry #foreveraninquiryteacher #meaningfulteachingandlearning

@jeanicesoliman Go PPS debater!

Mapped out the structure of an explicit lesson based on my reading of Explicit Instruction: Effective & Efficient Teaching by Anita Archer & Charles A. Hughes. Highly recommend. 📙 explicitinstruction.org

NEW! One-pager summarising feedback to help move learners forward. Featuring work & ideas from the excellent: @dylanwiliam @KateJones_teach @RonBergerEL @teacherhead @m_chiles @AlexJQuigley @olicav

@DonnaIson10 I’m sure you can give her access 😊 and a private tour!

@es_learning Ruby asked how to get in to take photos of the clock!

Connections • Creativity • Curiosity • When your 13 year old daughter heads into Parramatta for a photography excursion she just has to show the team Mum’s school! #proudparent

@smitheesusan @aliceleung Similarly my daughter in Yr 11 tells me everyday there is a hall full of students that are being supervised. One day she was in there for 3 of her classes - no teachers. As a teacher myself I understand but it’s just not good enough. This will impact her HSC.

@aliceleung Well done Alice! My son has not had a year 11 Engineering teacher for three weeks and it seems to be a weekly occurrence where 80 kids are supervised by 1 teacher.

I’m coming up next on 60 Minutes.