Workshop/Seminar presented by Ralph Pirozzo, www.pli.com.au
time: 5 hrs (all day) at Essendon Football Club
This presentation illustrated and workshopped Ralph’s curriculum structure and pedagogy which is designed to address the learning styles and abilities of the whole class. Using Blooms taxonomy and multiple intelligences Ralph has created a grid that enables a teacher to structure their courses to ensure that they offer their students many levels of thinking and opportunity to learn within their preferred learning style. He is also informed by deBono, Tony Ryan, Eric Frangenheim, Langford, Pohl, Art Costa, Kagan and others
Ralph’s pedagogy is informed by Glasser, Vygotschy, Bruner, McTighe and Wiggins, in which he has created a 48 or 56 activity matrix to present any topic within.
This program integrates blooms (to achieve higher order thinking) and Multiple Intelligences (to achieve engagement) Ralph has added to Bloom’s Taxonomy with a concept of preknowing – which takes into account students who are coming to or classrooms without the cultural identity our courses expect (ESL in particular). he has created a matrix of six (or seven) blooms tax, vs eight MI.
Ralph then gave instruction on how to implement such a matrix with assessment and Learning outcomes and then gave as access to many examples of these in use by other schools and classrooms.
