Welcome to the Learning to Teach in the Secondary School website.

 

Video and audio resources

 

Chapter 1

• Video 1: Talks from inspiring teachers
  Eight teachers share their experiences as they discuss the importance of believing in their students and truly ‘wanting’ to be a part of their life journey.
• Video 2:
  Dr Lodge McCammon explores the differences between the expectations of non-educators (who focus on explaining information) and educators (who focus on higher order thinking skills and activities).

 

Chapter 2

• Video 1: Definition of resilience – A light-hearted animation
  Key aspects of understandings about resilience are illustrated in this video.
• Video 2: Resilience animation
  This video provides more information about resilience, focusing on the characteristics that individuals need to develop.
• Video 3: Resilience: Anticipate, organise, adapt
  We know that resilience is a collective responsibility and not solely that of individuals. This video considers the importance of context and the individual’s ability to harness support and use different strategies to manage and overcome challenges presented.
• Video 4: Early career teacher resilience
  Many things are out of our control as teachers, such as external policies and practices. A recent study of early career teacher resilience in Australia produced a series of short videos where Barry Down talks about such external pressures.
• Video 5: The importance of relationships
  Rosie Le Cornu explains the importance of relationships for early career teachers.

 

Chapter 3

• Video 1: A Call to Men: TED talk
  TED talk educator Tony Porter looks into the differences between males and females – an important part of Chapter 3.
• Video 2: Learning and the brain
  This excerpt from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary The Human Body explores why we sometimes struggle when learning something new.

 

Chapter 4

• Video 1: Behind the News – Year 7
  This story from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) Behind the News explores the question: What is the best year to transition from primary school to high school?
• Video 2: My First Day
  This music video from the School Transition Project based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK, depicts some of the challenges experienced by a student transitioning into secondary school.

 

Chapter 5

• Video 1:
  An overview of research on Quality Teaching and a useful introduction to ideas about effective teaching, and its link with excellence and equity.
• Video 2: Professor Jenny Gore – Anticipating the Future (AITSL)
  Research pertaining to how the quality of professional practice is judged in teaching.

 

Chapter 6

• Video 1: The Australian Curriculum website – YouTube
  A demonstration of how secondary teachers can navigate the Australian Curriculum website as a digital publication and make full use of its features.
• Video 2: Australian education review proposes 'less crowded' curriculum
  The ABC program 7.30 (13 October 2014) outlines the focus of a review that made 30 key recommendations for changes to the curriculum to provide greater depth of knowledge. Critics cite the need for a review and the unrealistic timeline for implementation of the recommendations if the states and territories adopt them.
• Video 3: Scootle – curate, connect and find content aligned to the Australian curriculum‬
  An overview of Scootle – a repository of 40 000 rich, multimodal learning items aligned to core areas of the Australian curriculum for use by teachers and students. Scootle tools support teachers in curriculum development, implementation and assessment in a safe online environment that encourages collaboration and sharing.

 

Chapter 7

• Video 1: See, think, wonder – Teacher Feature (AITSL)
  An exploration of a ‘thinking’ routine for introducing a new topic in your classes. Using observational techniques, links with prior knowledge and ideas for prompting curiosity and engagement, the teacher shares her experiences and provides an example for you to consider in your own practice.
• Video 2: Education Services Australia
  Developed by Education Services Australia on behalf of State, Territory and Commonwealth of Australia education departments, this resource provides examples of assessment tasks in a range of learning areas. In addition, you will find professional learning modules (including video clips of teachers and students) with links to the research background, and other relevant websites.
• Video 3: Questioning Strategies
  Discussion of four questioning strategies: frequency, equitable distribution, prompting and wait time.

 

Chapter 8

• Video 1: Classroom Management Strategies To Take Control of Noisy Students
  Rob Plevin shares tips on making sure a noisy class is only allowed inside the classroom on your terms (not theirs). This is an excellent resource for the section in Chapter 8: Getting them in and getting them out (pp. 135–136).
• Video 2: Classroom Management for Dummies: Ten Solutions for Misbehavior
  In this humorous clip for beginning teachers, Keith Hughes explains ten rather unconventional solutions for managing classes. He uses accessible up-to-date language to describe realistic situations.
  Note that solution number nine is incorrectly labelled in the clip as a repeat of number five; however, Keith’s explanation is not. So there are 10 solutions in all.
• Video 3: Dr Bill Rogers – Behaviour Management video series
  Australian management expert Dr Bill Rogers has compiled a series of nine short YouTube clips on Behaviour Management. Each of these may be useful on an ‘as needed’ basis during professional experience or throughout your course. Most of the clips are between two and three minutes in length, addressing issues such as managing the difficult class, students who just say ‘No!’, ensuring a settled and focused class, dealing with distractions confidently, and tactical ignoring – just to name a few.
• Video 4: Effective Questioning Techniques
  Light-hearted summaries of points for you to consider when planning and implementing questions – both verbal and written – within your learning experiences.

 

Chapter 9

• Video 1:
  This video provides a basic understanding of what differentiated instruction is and why it is important.
• Video 2: Carol Tomlinson discusses differentiation
  Carole Tomlinson talks about differentiation, providing an explanation of how to get started with differentiated instruction.
• Video 3:
  Carol Tomlinson talks about differentiation, focusing on differentiated instruction in high schools.
• Video 4: Differentiation Central – Video archive
  Suggestions for commencing the task of differentiating instruction within a secondary classroom, including attention to ideas for challenging students while supporting them through scaffolded learning.

 

Chapter 10

• Video 1: 21st Century Education (AITSL)
  An exploration of the landscape of 21st-century education – locally and across the globe. Focuses on the way new technologies affect the way students learn and experience the world.
• Video 2: What is Google Apps for Education?
  An introduction to Google Apps for Education with an example of how apps can be integrated into learning.
• Video 3: Why Google Apps?
  A user-demonstration on how Google Apps can be a useful resource for pre-service teachers.

 

Chapter 11

Video and audio material complement Indigenous ways of Knowing as a form of communication and expression; they engage people beyond the linear text, the Brickwall; and draw on most of our senses.

• Video 1: Integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in Schools
  An outline of the importance and benefits of integrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across the Australian curriculum with examples of how this can be achieved.
• Video 2: Indigenous Stereotyping
  A short discussion about how Indigenous Australians are depicted in contemporary Australian films and television, as well as their absence from these media.
• Video 3: Aboriginal dance big step in learning culture
  Murwillumbah dance group Kids Caring for Country has grown to over 40 members and is providing young people with an opportunity to reconnect with Aboriginal culture.

 

Chapter 12

Each of these media items looks at an element of exclusion and can provide the basis for discussions around issues such as

• how exclusion has occurred.
• how inclusion might be achieved if these young people are in our classrooms.
• identification of deficit language and practices and how these might be changed to become inclusive.

• Video 1: Adolescent Risk Taking
  An exploration of positive and negative risk taking among adolescents.
• Video 2: In Your Face
  An episode of the ABC’s Australian Story showing how Robert Huge has built a successful career as journalist, public servant and published author, despite his physical disability and facial disfigurement – the result of a massive tumour being removed from his face during infancy.
• Video 3: Growing Up Poor
  An episode of the ABC’s Four Corners examining children’s living conditions in the suburb of Claymore, Western Sydney. The report seeks the views of the children in order to gain a clearer view of their experiences living in poverty.

 

Chapter 13

• Video 1: I am a teacher and I believe
  A creative look at what one teacher considers important about education, highlighting that sometimes we need to focus on ourselves and the reasons we became teachers.
  Consider what you can use, or further develop, from this clip to underpin your courage and resilience during professional experiences in schools.
• Video 2:
  Networks begin in the staff room. Professional activities and actions enacted by teachers each day (including effective communication, cooperation and collaboration) are fostered by relationships which themselves have a beginning within the school community. The staff room has the potential to support you, so that in turn, you can support your colleagues and your students.

 

Chapter 14

• Video 1: The Professional Teacher animation
  An overview of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) and the planned directions for ongoing professional learning and leadership in our school communities.
  The resource highlights the importance of induction into schools as a shared and important responsibility, and underlines the relevance of the APST, which provide expectations and a common language for talking about practice, as well as opportunities for teachers to observe, collaborate and learn from each other.
• Video 2: Queensland College of Teachers: Beginning to teach Year 1, Part 1: Why I became a teacher
  A beginning teacher shares her experience of her first year of teaching, specifically focusing on her own three reasons for choosing this career path. These are: the influence of particular teachers, teaching as a rewarding career choice, and her genuine interest in her subject content areas.
• Video 3: Legends' tips for beginning teachers
  Some of Queensland's most inspirational educators give their tips for beginning teachers. They include Excellence in Teaching Awards’ finalists.

 

Chapter 15

The use of audio/visual evidence in the portfolio is recommended as a means of representing the complexity of teaching practice in particular places and times. A Google search using key words most related to your own situation of practice (and including ‘portfolio’, ‘evidence’, ‘graduate teacher’) will yield examples of material produced by teachers and systems to demonstrate proficiency in teaching to the Australian Teaching Standards.

• Video 1: Taylor Mal: What Teachers Make
  Slam poet and former educator Taylor Mali responds to the statement ‘Those who can’t do, teach’.
• Video 2: Teachers e-portfolio.wmv
  An explanation of the purpose and importance of a teacher’s e-portfolio with advice on its key features and contents.

 

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