Productive Pedagogies

When I first read through what was requested in this task, I felt a little daunted and had no idea where to start.  But once I started with my idea about Australian food there was so many aspects that I could have chosen explore and expand upon within a classroom. 

This is what I came up with:-

Not sure if what I have is 100% correct but feel free to let me know if you think I have added things in the wrong place or havent added them in others. 

I noticed once I had completed putting it together that although all 4 dimension of the productive pedagogies where included, that is the Intellectual quality, Connectedness, Supportive Classroom enironment and recognition of differences, not all th aspects within these 4 dimensions were covered. 

The one aspect I couldnt seem to include into any of the tasks was the explicit quality performance criteria.  Perhaps one way to include it would have been to put in, after reading the book and the discussion about Australian food, to discuss with the class, the learning outcomes and the criteria for the quality of the students performance during the tasks.  Then at the beginning of each different task continue to detail the learning outcomes and the students expectations. 

I really valued doing this exercise, I am a visual learner, so having a real life situation paired with the productive pedagogy helped me to visualise how each dimensions fits together and the different aspects of each of the dimensions.  I think that this exercise in itself used some of the strategies within productive pedagogies, including

1. Facilitating deep knowledge through high order thinkining
2. Supporting students in knowing how they learn best
3. planning learning that is problem based and situated in real life contexts
4. Is relevant to students and connects to their background knowledge; and Finally
5. Supports learning that is owned, controlled and managed by students themselves