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The "H" Model
The "H" Model
The Heathmont College Teaching and Learning Model
The Heathmont College Teaching and Learning Model
The H Model is Heathmont College's Teaching and Learning Model - it articulates the ways we ensure our lessons are structured in such a way as to provide quality teaching and learning. The model has four block elements: pieces that should show up in every lesson. These are: Bridge, Discover, Achieve and Reflect. The model also has two over-arching elements: Feedback and Differentiation which become part of one or more of the four block elements in each lesson. All six pieces of the model should occur in each lesson at Heathmont, though they can (and sometimes should) occur in a different order and for different lengths of time in different lessons. In some lessons there could be many iterations of Achieve and Reflect, while in others you may start with an Achieve section before using Discover to explain the next idea or skill.
Summary of the Model
Summary of the Model
From Term 1 Curriculum Day
From Term 1 Curriculum Day
Non-linear model without a prescribed start and finish
Blocks -> Can be thrown into different arrangements
Feedback and Differentiation need to be present in each lesson, however these are incorporated into each of the other elements (hence a different colour)
Elements can occur concurrently
Making the learning visible to students
Provides common language between staff and students
Bridge
Bridge
Connects this lesson to the students' experience
Answers the question: ”how does this lesson relate to everything else?”
Building links between you and your students, this lesson and their prior knowledge, the curriculum and the world
Feedback in Bridge could be focused on gathering evidence of prior knowledge, or identifying which areas of this lesson hold particular interest for students
Differentiation could look like presenting differentiated success criteria or giving alternate ways to participate in an introductory activity
Discover
Discover
Communicates skills and knowledge for this lesson to students
Modelling, explicit teaching, demonstrating, reading
Feedback in Discover could include hinge questions, explicitly seeking feedback
Differentiation could involve using alternate methods of instruction for different students, or focusing on changing the content for groups of students
Achieve
Achieve
Students should achieve something in every lesson
Writing, making, drawing, speaking describing, doing…
Feedback in Achieve might look like observing student work, students clarifying their approach, students and teachers asking
Differentiation might mean giving students different processes to follow, products to produce or content being covered.
Reflect
Reflect
Everyone needs to regularly reflect on the learning process and plan to improve
Revisiting Learning Intentions, reviewing the learning, identifying strengths and planning to improve
Feedback in Reflect might include asking students for areas they still need work, ways in which the class has operates, or opportunities
Differentiation might mean giving students different processes to follow, products to produce or content being covered.
Feedback and Differentiation
Feedback and Differentiation
These belong everywhere in the H model.
Each lesson should include opportunities for students to receive feedback on their learning AND for teachers to receive feedback on how the lesson is taught
Differentiation is all about “meeting students where they are” and can occur at any point in the model.
Feedback and Differentiation feed off each other: feedback on student learning drives our differentiation, and differentiation provides better opportunities to give meaningful feedback on student learning.
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