Burraga and O’Connell teachers were among more than 220 teachers from all over rural and remote NSW who were recently challenged to throw off the old ways and be different.
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Speaking at the first Rural and Remote Education Conference in Bathurst, keynote speaker Allan Carrington told the educators not to be afraid to bring a new perspective to their teaching.
“Work hard at stirring the status quo,” Mr Richardson told the conference delegates.
“Think different. Be different. Teach different.
“That makes a difference and you’re making learning better for your students.”
Mr Richardson is a highly-sought-after internationally-recognised speaker and blogger and the creator of the Pedagogy Wheel, which is available in dozens of languages and has been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times.
He shared his insights into “flipping the classroom” and using technology to create new ways of learning.
“Technology facilitates new learning and allows students to perform new tasks that will extend learning and achievement,” Mr Richardson said.
“Always apply one simple criterion: maximising student success.”
Mr Richardson shared an example of how advances in technology advanced learning.
Today, he said, instead of expecting an essay on a piece of paper, enterprising teachers were expanding their students’ learning and knowledge by creating new opportunities.
Writing a persuasive argument could be a much greater accomplishment if a student created a blog or a digital storytelling project that potentially had a worldwide audience to critique and comment on it, Mr Richardson told the conference.
“It’s a first for a conference focusing on rural and remote issues for rural and remote educators,” he said.
“There were 213 educators from well over a hundred schools at the conference.
