Let's talk about Data: The affective intensities of teacher data relations

A generative presentation designed to help teachers take the lead when navigating standardised student assessment data practices.

Do you ever feel challenged and/or inspired by standardised data?

This presentation is designed to support teachers as they work with standardised data, particularly data visualisations (e.g data-walls).

Suitable for teachers, school leaders, data coaches, curriculum leaders.

Overview:

This presentation encourages a new perspective on student data, focusing on empowering teachers to engage in more productive data practices.

While standardised data is often seen as objective and clear, it can also be contradictory, subjective, and messy. Without careful consideration, these contradictions can quickly become tensions points in educational environments that are looking to better support and understand student learning using standardised assessment data.

This presentation is designed to support teachers as they engage in collaborative data-practices such as data planning, data conversations, data-dives and/or data-wall talks.

As teachers grapple with the increasing requirements of data-driven decision making and evidence-informed pedagogical practices, being seen and heard as an ‘effective’ teacher using data has become more complex.

The goal of this presentation is to help teachers navigate these complexities.

Outcomes:

During the presentation participants will consider:

• the purpose of data
• data visualisations
• the impacts of data visibility (e.g MySchool)
• being effective with data
• the affective intensities of data interactions

Overview:

This presentation encourages a new perspective on student data, focusing on empowering teachers to engage in more productive data practices.

While standardised data is often seen as objective and clear, it can also be contradictory, subjective, and messy. Without careful consideration, these contradictions can quickly become tensions points in educational environments that are looking to better support and understand student learning using standardised assessment data.

This presentation is designed to support teachers as they engage in collaborative data-practices such as data planning, data conversations, data-dives and/or data-wall talks.

As teachers grapple with the increasing requirements of data-driven decision making and evidence-informed pedagogical practices, being seen and heard as an ‘effective’ teacher using data has become more complex.

The goal of this presentation is to help teachers navigate these complexities.

Outcomes:

During the presentation participants will consider:

• the purpose of data
• data visualisations
• the impacts of data visibility (e.g MySchool)
• being effective with data
• the affective intensities of data interactions

Presented by Dr Catherine Thiele, Lecturer in Education, School of Education and Tertiary Access

This twilight presentation is led by Dr Catherine Thiele based on her PhD research on the affective intensities of being ‘effective’ in the face of standardised data.

Catherine combines her experiences as a classroom teacher and her research findings to put affect theory into practice to ensure the session is meaningful.

Catherine’s presentations are always interactive and creative as she will invite participants to consider how they work with standardised assessment data to support their professionalism.