16 Dec 2016
Over the course of this year, two of our teachers, Ms Pasalic and Mr Pelka have been working as part of a research team in conjunction with the Department, academics from UTS and staff from 3 other schools on a project that was concerned with establishing best practice teaching strategies for refugee students within a mainstream classroom.
This project required hours of collaborative planning, professional learning and the adoption of feedback from the analysis of filmed lessons. This feedback was then put into practice and involved Ms Pasalic and Mr Pelka having three further lessons of their 7L English class professionally filmed, incorporating the research's findings about what works best for refugee students.
This Classrooms of Possibility project culminated earlier this week in a presentation of the research's preliminary findings to a room of the research team, executive staff, key Departmental advisers and educational academics. The professionally filmed footage will form the basis of a video resource that the Department will release sometime in 2017.
We will share some of the work that they have done on this project next year, but in the meantime, we wanted to publically congratulate Dorian Ms Pasalic and Mr Pelka for their excellent work and dedication to the project throughout the year.
Mr Lukins
Head Teacher Professional Learning
Fairfield High School