mle area schools conference presentation
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Modern Learning Environments at Te Karaka Area SchoolTRANSCRIPT
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MODERN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
is transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual
Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding your Passion Changes everything
Open Spaces
Visibility
Agile Furniture
Collaborative Teaching
One Teach, One Observe:
One Teach, One Assist
Parallel Teaching
Station Teaching
Alternative Teaching
Team Teaching
Observing each other and analysing and
discussing afterwards.
One maintains primary responsibility, other
assists learners in need.
Two teachers, two groups of students, both
being taught the same thing.
Different content taught by different teachers,
students rotate around stations.
One teacher takes responsibility for a large
group while another conveys specialist
attention. ‘One brain, two bodies’ teachers teach the
same thing at the same time to the same
students.
“My Kids” to “Our Kids”
Changing of Relationships
Learner Centered Curriculum
Learner Agency
Knowledge Building
Curriculum
It isn't enough to see knowledge as an end in itself, to “fill” up students with existing knowledge, its what students can do
Jane Gilbert
Future Focused Curriculum
Future focus is about supporting learners to recognize that they have a stake in the future, and a role and responsibility as
NZ Curriculum Principles
Deprivatisation of Practice
Personalised
Individualised
Differentiated
TKAS Story
Ed Talks Channel
• The first step to considering modern learning
environments is to start with learning.
Area School’s Potential
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see how it can be done—
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden