Teacher Tools

Learning Walk using Padlet

Integrating Technology into Teacher Professional Development sessions. 

As teachers we usually work in our classrooms' isolated and perhaps only get the chance to collaborate with members of our own department or grade. Teachers rarely get the opportunity to see the wonderful resources and work students and teachers display in and across the whole school.  

The leadership team decided enough is enough! lets celebrate the learning thats taken place at GCS and be proud of what we have achieved.....and off we went.

Teachers were put into teams and asked to walk round the school, in a scavenger hunt like manner to record any evidence of powerful learning they could see exhibited, using the software tool, "padlet".

Padlet was the ideal tool for this activity as any pictures the teachers took from their iPad, were instantly recorded onto the padlet digital noticeboard, for all to see in realtime. 

Below are some screenshots taken from the padlet noticeboard. To view the full results of the learning walk click on this link - Link to Padlet - Learning Walk

The Inquiry Cycle - Tuning in

Padlet in Grade 2

Using Padlet, students recorded what they think the unit of inquiry, How the World Works, means. This initial tuning in activity will be revisited at the end of the unit to record what they have understood.

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With so many ways of sharing the content, QR codes is also one of the options. The below code is posted in the classroom for the students to scan and discuss as they move through the inquiry cycle and see how their initial thinking has changed.

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Padlet

Grade 4 Teacher Ms Fatima has used Padlet to note student reflection while teaching a UOI lesson on Ancient Civilisation. Students conducted a jigsaw activity were they were asked to research in their groups about the five main elements of Mesopotamian Civilisation. At the end of the task they had to exchange the information they had just gathered with the other groups in the class. 

Students would then use Padlet to post their reflection about the activity and what they had learnt about Mesopotamia.

This was a great way to assess students understanding of the information received.

An example of the Padlet wall can be see below.

Student Feedback on what they learnt

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Padlet

Is a great tool for collaborating, its basically a virtual wall that allows people (students) to express their thoughts on a common topic.

Teachers can use this tool in myriad of ways, for instance to pose open-ended questions to students, brainstorming, reflective purposes and more.....

It works like an online bulletin board where content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) can be put up on the page, by anyone who has been given access to the page.

If you want to know how to use it refer to the YouTube tutorial below.

An example of how Padlet is being used at GCS can be found in the PYP page.