Course information | 851 Innovative Teaching (HNS) S1 2025

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Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

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Christchurch Campus

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Papanui
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Distance Learning

3 Smythe Road, Henderson
Private Bag 93104
Henderson
Auckland 0650
New Zealand

P +64 9 836 7836 or 0800 999 777
E distancelearning@laidlaw.ac.nz

Laidlaw Website

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WEEK 1: Feb 17 - Feb 23

Introductions (copy)

WEEK 2: Feb 24 - Mar 2

Course Text online

VIDEO: Daring classrooms - Brené Brown

VIDEO: An Introduction to Faith, Hope, and Love

ARTICLE: Theology and Pedagogy of Hope

PODCAST: Mark Strom - Faith, Hope, Love (Listen from 53 minutes)

SUMMARY TABLE: Faith, Hope and Love

RESOURCE: Strategies for connecting faith, hope, and love with classroom practice

FORUM 1: What makes a good teacher?

Session 1 Slides

WEEK 3: Mar 3 - Mar 9

POLICY - National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP)

POLICY: NELP pdf overview

RESOURCE - NZ Curriculum online

INFOGRAPHIC: Generation Alpha

RESOURCE - Understanding Generation Alpha

Session 2 Slides ( Monday 3 March)

WEEK 4: Mar 10 - Mar 16

TKI - Innovative Classroom Design

Clever Classrooms report (UK 2015)

READING: Why schools need to change and why most efforts to change them fail.

READING: New spaces - new pedagogies: Implementing personalised learning in primary school innovative learning environments

READING: Coming out of the closet: From single cell classrooms to innovative learning environments

RNZ REPORT: No evidence modern learning environments work

REPORT: No Evidence, No Evaulation, No Exit - Lessons from the 'Modern Learning Environment' Experiment

READING: A comparative study on the effectiveness of traditional and modern teaching methods

Session 3 slides

WEEK 5: Mar 17 - Mar 23

VIDEO: Introduction to the Science of Learning

VIDEO: Bloom's Taxonomy (4:46)

Blooms Taxonomy Poster

RESOURCE - Connecting Bloom's Taxonomy to the Domains of Learning

RESOURCE - Action verbs for LI's based on Bloom's Taxonomy

RESOURCE - Unpacking SOLO taxonomy

VIDEO: SOLO Taxonomy (3:49)

INFO - Learning through play (NZ curriculum online)

READING - A brief introduction to play-based learning

Building a house with diapers?

Session 4 slides

WEEK 6: Mar 24 - Mar 30

VIDEO: Clarifying and sharing learning intentions

RESOURCE: Defining learning intentions and success criteria

RESOURCE (PPT) - Learning intentions. They why and how

Lesson Plan Template

LESSON PLAN EXAMPLE - Pig the Pug_Picture book mini-lesson

Planning examples

More Planning Examples

RESOURCE - How to plan for inquiry learning - a roadmap for teachers

INFO - The Umbrella of Inquiry [3 min read]

RESOURCE - If you want to dive further into inquiry learning

READING- Inquiry learning in an ICT-rich environment. Jan-Marie Kellow

RESOURCE - The Big 6

Online Dialogue Learning and Presentation (30% LO: 1,5)

Forum Assignment 1- Discussion Forum

Session 5 slides

NZC English Phase 1

WEEK 7: Mar 31 - Apr 6

FULL REPORT - Class divides? The impact of streaming on educational achievement and equality

REPORT SUMMARY - Class divides? The impact of streaming on educational achievement and quality?

ARTICLE - The plan to end classroom streaming by 2030, explained

NZC English Phase 1

Session 6 slides

WEEK 8: Apr 7 - Apr 13

VIDEO: SAMR - Incorporating digital technology (4:11)

SLIDES - SAMR model

RESOURCE - Digital technologies in the NZ curriculum

Ideas for using coding in the classroom

Scratch - Tool for coding

Technology Curriculum Insert

Session 7 slides

WEEK 11: Apr 28 - May 4

School Based Learning Placements list

Session 8 Slides (week 11)

INFORMATION - Standardised tests in NZ

Formative Assessment Ideas 1

Formative Assessment Ideas 2

ARTICLE - Albert Bandura: Self-efficacy and agentic positive psychology

Assignment 2 Tutorial slides