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Professional learning | Teachers TV | Michael Fullan | Jeremy Kedian | Wellington High School – Tukutahi

Professional Learning and Leadership Development: Podcasts

These podcasts on school leadership have been developed by the Professional Learning and Leadership Development Directorate of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training. They are updated each month. Each podcast is 15–20 minutes in length. Each contains a brief overview of a recent research article, where the research findings might be applied in schools, a link to the source of the article, plus any other supporting material. Podcasts contain an interview with an author of the research and an interview with a principal using research in their school.

These podcasts are particularly useful for professional learning groups and are copyrighted to the State of New South Wales through the Department of Education and Training.

Link to the Professional Learning and Leadership Development podcasts.

Teachers TV

This LeadSpace page links to Teachers TV website. The website is funded by the UK’s Department of Education and Skills (DfES). It is a TV channel and broadband website catering for everyone who works in UK education, from principals and teachers to support staff. The hundreds of downloadable programmes take users inside classrooms and schools across the country to show how educators are bringing the curriculum to life and improving schools. Average viewing time per video is 15 minutes.

Link to LeadSpace item on Teachers TV.

Michael Fullan Keynote

This LeadSpace page links to a video of Michael Fullan giving his keynote speech, ‘Turnaround schools, Turnaround Systems’, at the Scottish Learning Festival in late 2007.

Link to LeadSpace item on Michael Fullan’s keynote speech.

Jeremy Kedian Keynote

Check out Jeremy Kedian’s keynote presentation, ‘20/20 Vision – Leading Learning into the Future’, recorded at the Learning@School Conference 2008. Jeremy is manager and senior consultant of the Educational Leadership Centre (ELC) in the School of Education at the University of Waikato. This presentation takes 1 hour 4 minutes.

Link to presentation: Leading Learning into the Future

Wellington High School – Tukutahi

In this digital story from New Zealand Curriculum Online Prue Kelly, principal of Wellington High School explains a programme underway at the school that aims to meet the learning needs of its diverse students. The programme integrates subjects from four areas, English, science, social studies and maths and began in 2008 with 50 students. Teachers collaborate on all planning, student progress and assessment, and the way the lessons are constructed to open pathways across the subjects.

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/digital_stories/school_stories/wellington_high_school_tukutahi/(quality)/large