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Pedagogy is the art and science of teaching.
The core business of teaching is pedagogy.
Quality teaching in NSW public schools is a model of pedagogy. More about the model can be found by clicking here. Quality teaching is a model for reflection and is based on extensive research. The NSW quality teaching model of pedagogy identifies best practice.
“Reflective openness starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world” Peter Senge
Bombala High School is a school with deep knowledge and deep understanding of quality teaching driven by assessment and programming. Hear Bronwen Smith and Marty Lyons talk about their approach here.
Teachers make a difference click here to see it in black and white.
When we stop questioning, we stop learning and growing.
At the end of a day of teaching, many teachers reflect on the hours that have passed, rewinding the tape to consider what worked, what inspired, what stumbled and what they might change in the future. This reflective process is central to the growth process, and questions are the tools that enable the following to thrive:
- Wondering
- Considering
- Predicting
- Challenging
- Testing
- Probing
- Stretching
- Inventing
Ideally, the questioning teacher becomes capable of reinvention and is never stuck for long in ruts or slumps.