One of my accountabilities that aligns with our school’s strategic priorities is innovation in teaching.  Ensuring out teachers have the practical knowledge and a repertoire of tactics and activities that they can apply to effectively achieve their classroom outcomes.

Their current knowledge of digital delivery tactics and methods is basic, not much beyond a video of a talking head for an hour.  Students find this hard to engage with after long periods.  We need to increase our learning effectiveness by knowing the right digital tactic to best achieve an outcome.

Seeding a community-based approach to build educator confidence and skills in remote teaching pedagogy.  If we start by all sharing something we know, each teacher will end up knowing too many tactics that they can remember – this is a good problem to have.

We will set up a community of practice in our Yammer network to share tactics, share experiences, and troubleshoot ways forward.  Facilitating students is something we do everyday, we will not be short of things to try and experiences to share that will contribute to the growth of a sustainable community.

A future need will be to document a curated resource of tactics identified by the community.  We could do this using a SharePoint Communication Site.

Teachers can share a new skill / practice / approach they have gained and applied from this community.