This Night of the Notables Services Consultancy ABN 26 092 016 886 offers support and advice for Queensland teachers and administrators seeking registration or re-registration with the Queensland College of Teachers.

Why not employ Night of the Notables in your state teacher registration documentation!!

e.g., use the Standards as the basis for your professional reflections, e.g.,

Standard 3. Construct intellectually challenging learning experiences.

This standard covers the requirements for planning and implementing intellectually challenging learning experiences. This involves constructing experiences in which students examine the key ideas underpinning major issues and problems, formulate and justify opinions and apply higher-order thinking skills to analyse issues, develop understandings and solve problems.

Response: Our suggestion for your 2010 professional reflection: "Implementing Night of the Notables involved my constructing learning experiences in which students examine the key ideas underpinning major issues and problems relevant to talented students such as eminence,leadership and success in life, where students did formulate and justify opinions about their notable and his or her comparative success as ascertained by personal criteria or against society's conventional measures, and I led them to apply higher-order thinking skills to analyse issues, develop understandings and solve problems to do with being notable and eminent. I / my teachers assisted the students to do this by articulating such issues, understandings, associated problems and solutions in the program's class talk and in the products of their research and learning, the written biography and/or the interactive display on the Night.

In my school/ classroom, I established a rich learning environment in which ideas and opinions were valued, and students were encouraged to express ideas, ask questions and exchange and challenge points of view on the issue and topic of eminence in society.

In meeting Standard 3.3, I employed "a model of student inquiry that involved establishing what is known, refining and extending student knowledge and reflecting on the learning process." The Night of the Notables Program as applied in my school involved teaching some research methodology, my guidance upon interpreting data and metacognitive methods for assessing and reviewing that data and the students' conclusions on it. I taught the standard research paradigm."

Standard 4. Construct relevant learning experiences that connect with the world beyond school.

This standard covers the requirements for planning and implementing learning experiences that build on students' prior knowledge, life experiences, and interests; establish linkages between key curriculum areas; and make connections between school programs and the world beyond the school.

Source: http://education.qld.gov.au/staff/development/pdfs/profstandards.pdf

Response: Our suggestion for your 2010 professional reflection: "I / my teachers assisted the students to do this by implementing learning experiences that built on students' prior knowledge, life experiences, and interests. Under my guidance and teaching, my students explored the topic of eminence in society, its genesis, nurturing and growth, and the nature and dynamics of expressing clusters of talents as achievements of that eminence.

In meeting Standard 4.2, I/ my teachers using the Night of the Notables Program framed "learning experiences that integrated ideas, concepts the examination of significant ideas and concepts surrounding eminence that have the potential to develop student's understandings of themselves and their contemporary and future world."

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First posted 16-03-2009

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