Week 4: High Impacts Teaching Strategies (HITS)

Introduction to Week 4

For an introduction to this week, watch the following video.

Weekly learning objectives

By the end of this week, you will be able to:

  • critically review the High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
  • design numeracy learning experiences integrating the HITS
  • demonstrate fostering numeracy across the curriculum, e.g.Literacy and/or Health and Physical Education using the HITS
  • identify examples of contextualising mathematics using the HITS.

Activity: The problem—Numeracy and the HITS

Purpose

It is critical for teachers to draw on evidence-based best practice, such as HITS, to maximise students’ opportunities for numeracy learning. The Birth to Level 10 Numeracy Guide offers suggestions on how teachers can use the HITS with a numeracy focus across the curriculum. This activity will help you identify numeracy learning opportunities across the curriculum using the HITS.


Task

  1. Consider the following scenario:
    • After engaging in a numeracy task on analysing statistical data from a news article, the teacher wrote on Georgie’s work “Well done. This work is terrific. Score 70%”. This feedback, whilst positive, was vague, and did not indicate the strengths of work submitted, nor areas for improvement. Throughout the course of the year, this type of feedback continued, and Georgie final grade was 70%.
  2. Contemplate a time you were provided with feedback. Perhaps for an assignment or in the workplace, or even in a dish you cooked.
    • Record what aspects of the feedback were productive and unproductive.
    • What feedback would you hoped to have receive more of/less of to help you improve for future?
    • List suggestions for feedback that Georgie’s teacher could have utilised.

Hint: View the Feedback section of the HITS for ideas on effective feedback relevant to your context.

Complete the activity in your reflective journal.