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Feel free to add a comment to Bruce's Blog and enter e-mail to receive postingsBruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.comBlogger1571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-88192186750378307262021-01-30T00:44:00.000+13:002021-01-30T00:44:10.562+13:00<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #cc6600; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.25em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 4px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Beginning the school year</span></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-997099872163641893" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="text-align: center;">.<br /><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Seven ideas to consider</b></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br /><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d;"></span><br /></div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: medium;">Pass on to interested teachers</span>.</div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTNefDjtDCRWUiAUrSUetG0Qci5TKe1BTyhuonKb2a-OjDw1bh381LRnoeK5zO9LsyMSa8vLh3IIzr9WP6_O-obIFY-rzK0c9EJfl7oLFwtjO6FoQPuG1AHw4a85PCP5gZzTZ/s1600/back+to+school+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #5588aa; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTNefDjtDCRWUiAUrSUetG0Qci5TKe1BTyhuonKb2a-OjDw1bh381LRnoeK5zO9LsyMSa8vLh3IIzr9WP6_O-obIFY-rzK0c9EJfl7oLFwtjO6FoQPuG1AHw4a85PCP5gZzTZ/s1600/back+to+school+3.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" /></a></div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Beginning a school year is a challenge to all teachers</b> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">- even the most experienced. In teaching, it seems, there is no shallow end!</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><b>Check out the links below the seven ideas below</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> - you might find some of them useful to you.</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>'Begin with the end in mind'</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Business 'guru' Steven Covey advice is to 'begin with the end in mind'</b>. A good idea ( for an individual teacher or staff) is to define the attributes of a great learner that you would like all students to achieve by the end of the year. </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>This is equally a good idea to discuss with a new class at the beginning of the yea</b>r. They could be posted in the classroom for reference. In New Zealand they could be par<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/lesson-around-waitangi-day.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">t of a class treaty linking the idea to the </a><b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/lesson-around-waitangi-day.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Treaty of Waitang</a>i</b> if so this might define positive teacher behaviours as well.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Once such attributes/ competencies have been defined then when seen in action students could be given praise</b>. See ideas 6 and 7</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is what educator <b>John Holt</b> hoped all schools would achieve - it reminds us of how the very young learn before school.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>In 1970 he was asked:</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>‘If American schools were to take one giant step forward this year towards a better tomorrow what should it be?’<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgud5DmFaFGdYmsPPjghI0z-LoxBduHQSXeI5vpHW5krTr30TOgwm69z1D9fwandjXjx3LUgEwyh_Y1b6-EFaC4_sKuTYCvgAQjfjaYJpB-rfBw1q1H875-HGyWyqxzV-DQkSRqow/s1600/download+%25284%2529b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #5588aa; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgud5DmFaFGdYmsPPjghI0z-LoxBduHQSXeI5vpHW5krTr30TOgwm69z1D9fwandjXjx3LUgEwyh_Y1b6-EFaC4_sKuTYCvgAQjfjaYJpB-rfBw1q1H875-HGyWyqxzV-DQkSRqow/s200/download+%25284%2529b.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px; text-align: center;">John Holt - a perceptive educationalist</td></tr></tbody></table></div><i><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"></span></span></b></i><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 20.8px;"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><b>‘It would be to let every child be the planner, director of his own education,</b> to allow and encourage him with the inspiration and guidance of more experienced and expert people, and </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px; text-align: center;">as much help as he asked for, to decide what he has to learn, when he is to learn it, how he is to learn it, and how well he is learning it. It would make our schools,..... a resource for free and independent learning, which everyone in the community, of whatever age, could use as much or as little as he wanted.’</span></i></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.8px;"></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>Idea number one</b> : what attitudes do students bring with them?</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;">In a few days teachers and students return to school to begin a new year.</span></div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgo3OnJqUqvLdwy2CWquLhT4JKvD72pFqY8bIZugbUkJhSHxdlJwTKEqAHTTK9qsvtJMhZlA-Mk17nscyrddWyGhRGaktWyWxuzzMwoqmyT3k-OQ90OhjatcdCJBg78VwPd_MSQ/s1600/bnb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #5588aa; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDgo3OnJqUqvLdwy2CWquLhT4JKvD72pFqY8bIZugbUkJhSHxdlJwTKEqAHTTK9qsvtJMhZlA-Mk17nscyrddWyGhRGaktWyWxuzzMwoqmyT3k-OQ90OhjatcdCJBg78VwPd_MSQ/s1600/bnb.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" /></a></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>One excellent idea is to gather data about students current views on a range of</b></span></div><div class="separator" itemprop="articleBody" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>school activities.</b> Ideally this would be best as a whole school activity and the information gained used to suggest area for teachers to improve attitudes. Student poor attitudes interferes with their achievement levels</span><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-attitudes-do.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><br /></a></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-attitudes-do.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">For some ideas click on this link</a>.</span><br /><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.8px;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Number two:</b>The power of personal experience/writing</span></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><b></b><br /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><strong>A good idea is to prepare a small presentation about yourself - students will be extremely curious about their new teacher!</strong></span><br /><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><strong><br /></strong></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6cdyDW78lyEMnOYMokOq-1B3WDpoDvZaZKAi8XrQSab6UtxWNbwykYfbSCl4XiYgWmpIEWLyYWb-2vjD9FnCQgwrmWszGok0PEszEfcPcuFYGMgvXeCyiitcT3guyvXwB7NvOQ/s1600/growth+m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #5588aa; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH6cdyDW78lyEMnOYMokOq-1B3WDpoDvZaZKAi8XrQSab6UtxWNbwykYfbSCl4XiYgWmpIEWLyYWb-2vjD9FnCQgwrmWszGok0PEszEfcPcuFYGMgvXeCyiitcT3guyvXwB7NvOQ/s1600/growth+m.jpg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Value the 'voice' of your students</td></tr></tbody></table></div><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;">Give the a potted history of your life experience and tell them that over the year you will get to know all about them</span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;">.</span><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><u><span style="color: #5588aa;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-sharing-our.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">To read more click on this link</a></span></span></span></u></div><div><span style="color: #5588aa;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><u></u><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #5588aa; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif;"><u><b>Idea Three</b>: developing a 'growth</u> mindset' through a simple portrait ( the research of Carol Dweck)</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><u><span style="color: #0b0117;"></span></u><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4665195834987981348" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 4px;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCMBRDNFq6fXNd-ZxXTE_e1JDrFMzyjOQZ33viX8aMmTlrjmU4kFJuXBevN_epqbmmS1pL62HT4R6wyynh0Jucog2n0rUU9Nqzp5RrR0l_bG0mHDcbXevxaddwUjl5rWCQQnacQ/s1600/IMG_1014.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKCMBRDNFq6fXNd-ZxXTE_e1JDrFMzyjOQZ33viX8aMmTlrjmU4kFJuXBevN_epqbmmS1pL62HT4R6wyynh0Jucog2n0rUU9Nqzp5RrR0l_bG0mHDcbXevxaddwUjl5rWCQQnacQ/s1600/IMG_1014.JPG" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">With strategies we can all dr</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">What are your students' views about their artistic ability?</span><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">Do they believe that only some students are born with the ability to draw or that everyone is an artist?</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><u><span style="color: #5588aa;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-developing-growth.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">For further information click on this link.</a></span></span></u> <span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Idea Four</b>:<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2009/09/importance-of-observation.html" style="color: #5588aa; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #274e13;">Observation is an important skill in all areas of learning - all too often students look but don't see</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;">.</span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><b> </b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;">Close <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2006/02/observation-basic-learning-skill.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">observation encourages a slower pace of work which assists student memory</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;">Once the skill of observation is in place it can be used throughout the year in all learning areas.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-importance-of.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Link to further information</a>.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Idea Five</b>: What talents do your students bring to your class?</span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b><span style="color: #001004; 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padding: 0px;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">All individuals whose talents weren't recognized at school.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">With the current press in schooling focusing on achievement in literacy and numeracy <strong>it is all too easy to overlook the unique talents that students have</strong>. <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2013/07/a-twenty-first-century-vision-of.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An education focused on developing all students talents and gifts</a> also provides students the opportunity to become literate and numerate in meaningful contexts</span></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5048049284107713417" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;">Link to f<u><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-talents-do.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small;">urther</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;"> ideas to consider</span></a></u></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5048049284107713417" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em;"><u><br /></u><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.4em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Idea six</b>:-how do we learn?</span></span><br /><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4em;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8555937887292636800" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRCdyTimr0wt90EnK0SnYnZ2G0XU0l832FG0_FbAQo9Kk1RyBbrJuz8VR15OWyYZwsKSufkiriycCnMy6vcNs7C8DD40hi7xacbwos6n09CdOou5KZiXC0Bg9kK79Ta4eMoiT6Q/s1600/skill-150x150.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRCdyTimr0wt90EnK0SnYnZ2G0XU0l832FG0_FbAQo9Kk1RyBbrJuz8VR15OWyYZwsKSufkiriycCnMy6vcNs7C8DD40hi7xacbwos6n09CdOou5KZiXC0Bg9kK79Ta4eMoiT6Q/s200/skill-150x150.jpeg" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">How did you get better at firing arrows?<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">Did your students learn something new during their long holidays - or get better at something during this time?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;"><b style="line-height: 1.6em;">Students need to appreciate that<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2008/11/natural-born-learners.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> learning is what humans all do from birth</a></b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2008/11/natural-born-learners.html" style="color: #999999; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> - think about how young babies learn. What do they do to learn</a></span></div><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-attitudes-do.html" style="color: #999999; font-size: large; line-height: 1.6em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Unfortunately many young people think learning is something they do at schoo</b>l - and worse still many students have 'learnt' that are aren't good at many things</a><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;">. As Henry Ford said , 'If you think you can or you think you can't you are both right!'</span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.14px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6em; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-how-do-we-learn.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Link to further information.</a></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.14px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><div style="text-align: left;"><u></u><span style="color: #5588aa;"></span><br /></div></div><div style="font-family: "trebuchet ms", trebuchet, arial, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10.14px; letter-spacing: 0.2em; text-align: center; text-transform: uppercase;"><div style="text-align: left;">.</div></div><div style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Idea Seven</b> : Developing a 'stance' as a teacher- ideas of Robert Fried and William Glasser</span>.<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="post-header" style="font-family: georgia, serif; text-align: center;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8073536206009087126" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HxnSx2L53ndzxA7PDE_uUCE_UQt0L2t3MXpBAakaxsXXA5RlTxBwGTr5wOVygVGkdmaoQkaU5QuDG2wmZ9oAVlmTqI0N06mtuxsO5VtXZTIwF3-7DaRa_zs3QGWz6GmOW6Eq-Q/s1600/socrates.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #999999; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HxnSx2L53ndzxA7PDE_uUCE_UQt0L2t3MXpBAakaxsXXA5RlTxBwGTr5wOVygVGkdmaoQkaU5QuDG2wmZ9oAVlmTqI0N06mtuxsO5VtXZTIwF3-7DaRa_zs3QGWz6GmOW6Eq-Q/s200/socrates.png" style="border: none; padding: 0px;" width="156" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 10.4px;">Socrates's 'stance' was clear -is yours?</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: small;">It seems students quickly pick up on the stance of their teachers so it is worth thinking about what's the 'stance' about teaching you want them to pick up? Now is time to think about how you want to come across to your students and fellow teachers.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: small; line-height: 1.6em;"><b style="line-height: 1.6em;">Robert Fried,</b><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> in his excellent book '</span><b style="line-height: 1.6em;">The Passionate Teacher', </b><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> writes about how teachers need to create an atmosphere that makes the students want to be their rooms.</span></span></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8073536206009087126" itemprop="articleBody" style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: #5588aa;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Link to </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">further</span></a><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> ideas</a></span></span></u></span></div></div></div></div>Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-50106403466634743122020-03-26T14:42:00.000+13:002020-05-02T18:03:54.240+12:00Home Schooling Activities to educate students during the COVID 19 virus emergency<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px; text-align: center;">
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<b>I heard yesterday on National Radio an interesting idea for students to do at home ~ get them to learn five new things a wee</b>k ~practical things like learning to cook something new, or study something of personal interest etc Students could make a list of things they want to learn about - a personalized curriculum.</div>
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<b>I note a lot of school sending out worksheet activities for their students but I feel the situation requires something more creative</b>. Too many worksheets would not be a good idea - time to think out of the box.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Set up a 'My Learning Journal /Scrapbook'. </span></div>
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<b>Students could set up a My Learning Journal to record activities</b> ~could make a wonderful family historical artifact to share in the future?</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Set me thinking of other possible home learning tasks like:</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<b>Finding and writing up family histories</b> from mum and dad.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Develop a family reading group</b> and share what each member has been reading (keep a reading log) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Draw something every day</b> (maybe choosing something from their environment),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>K</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>eep a diary of events as the situation unfolds</b> ( think of Anne Franks)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Write a short poem each day</b> and illustrate to share </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><b>Research the photos and ornaments around the home </b>- there is usually a story behind each picture /</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ornament</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Do personal research project on something of interest each wee</b>k (make a list of ideas to add to and then choose o to study),</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>With mum and dad keep a record of family spending</b>,-learn basic </span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">budgeting</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Do a research study of a family pet</b> - how to care for them, how they evolved to be pets how wild </span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">animals</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> relate to domestic pets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Learn to use basic Te reo phrases</b> as a family (school could supply or google them),</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Develop a PE obstacle track in </span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">the</span></span></b><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b> backyard</b>.. Time and </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">record</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> how long it takes to get around </span></span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">How many balls can you catch before dropping a catch; develop a short cycle of fitness activities,;play skipping and catching balls game ~make a record of improvement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"><b>Technology challenges</b> ~like make a bridge from rolled newspaper or experiment how far can your paper dart can fly,/</span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;">lesson on keeping safe</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>You might want to learn about viruse</b>s ~sure is plenty of information. Guess most parents will have had a family meetings to discuss the virus with </span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">family</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> members.</span></span><span style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>And that the list above may also encourage you to think of your own activities</b></span></div>
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Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-68448239607240574172019-11-09T12:44:00.001+13:002019-11-09T12:46:06.329+13:00Teaching the Best Practice Way - Methods That Matter<span style="font-size: large;">Its been a while since I've posted on my blog but I thought the below was worth sharing - Bruce</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A valuable book for teachers wanting
to develop a modern learning environment.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other day I heard an interview on National
Radio expressing the sad fact that a great number of students leave school with
no idea about what they want to do.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">It made me
wonder about what’s the point of school? For me, school ought to be premised on
developing the gifts, talents and interests of all students</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Sadly,
primary education is still centred around literacy and numeracy, all too often taught
as self-contained subjects, and most secondary schools are still based on
fragmented subject centred timetables. No wonder so many students leave without
know the direction they want to head when they leave schoo</b>l!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to share the Seven Best Practices presented in the book ‘Teaching as Best
Practice’. by Daniels and Bizar (Stenhouse Publishers USA).</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b> The books great
strength is that it combines a progressive education philosophy (in line with
the intent of the NZC) with practical examples of the philosophy in action
across all levels of schoo</b>l. The book relates to the ideas of such educators as
John Dewey, Jean Piaget, James Beane, William Glasser, Howard Gardner etc. and
the examples are based on experiential hands on learning fuelled by the passion
of extraordinary teachers. <b>The book is antidote to the standards movement and
hyper accountability of past decades.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reading is seen as transcending debates about
phonics and is more about reading as thinking</b> embedded in the context of broad
and interesting integrative units where students are continually representing
to learn in writing, art, and performance. </span></div>
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need to be provided with rich text worth thinking about, and strategies to help
them think</b>. Proficient readers are seen as ‘co-creators of meaning’ <b>Context is
everything</b>; it’s about getting students ‘to think like historians,
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Representing to Learn.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>This method
is based on the premise that humankind has always had an impulse to represent
experienc</b>e and that this goes beyond using words including strategies that are
commonly classified as art, drama, dance and music, and today multimedia
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There are a range of genres to explore and opportunities to extend
and amplify a full range of intelligences (as researched by Howard Gardner). A
range of practical examples are covered in the book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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need to be given opportunities to practice democracy and work together to solve
problems</b> (the writings of John Dewey). Many structures are provided, and
practical classroom examples given to ensure groups work productively.</span></div>
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tasks must be ‘have enough inherent structures to operate automatically, to
remain engaged, on task and relevant’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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see the classroom as a workshop a useful metaphor or ‘working laboratories or
studios, where genuine knowledge is created, real products are made. and
authentic inquiry is pursued.</b>’ </span></div>
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workshop, learning laboratory classroom students choose individual or small
group topics for investigation, inquiry, and research using long chunks of
classroom time to do this.</span></div>
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conferencing, offering well timed compact mini lessons and providing help as
required.</b> In the early days of workshopping teachers keep the time short
lengthened as students become more independent. In workshops students learn to
act, plan and question like a scientist. Classroom examples clarify the
approach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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students schools need to get real and many people from John Dewey onwards have
argued for school to be more lifelike, more genuine, more authentic</b>.</span></div>
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real life these experiences are inherently multi-disciplinary and messy
problems;</b> these problems need to be identified, complexity needs to be faced,
and solutions found. Inquiry into authentic questions need to be generated from
student experiences.<b> Students need to become researchers, gathering data,
asking questions, conducting experiments, recording information and discovering
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inquiry becomes possible when the conditions that support Best Practices are in
place</b>; when the classroom is a community with students eager to take
responsibly for hands on experiential learning and with opportunities to
express what they are thinking,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and able
to use technology to advance their inquiries.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The authors believe ‘that technology can leverage some
of the best teaching if used widely ‘and that it can ‘play a lead or supporting
role’ once the appropriate pedagogy is in place.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Students
need to be helped become self-monitoring, self-regulating, able to be in control
of their own learning, able to set ambitious goals, keep their own records,
adjust their efforts, make good decisions and grow by healthy and measured
feedback</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">T<b>his is in
contrast to the toxic current accountability movement </b>which the authors state
simply correlates to student socioeconomic status of students, is inconsistent
with what is known about how students learn and distort teaching often
resulting in streaming, tracking and ability group segregation. A range of
practical alternatives are provided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Integrative Units</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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save the best for last. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The last best practice blends all the other six methods
into days or weeks of rich, cross disciplinary investigations driven by student
interest and scaffolded by teachers who model, coach, and manage the inquiry
process</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">With integrative units teachers step emphatically out of single
subject instruction and </span></div>
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lead their students into inquiries as complex and
multi-disciplinary as the real issues grown-ups face as workers, parents and
citizens.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Teachers
believe that students can learn subject matter (including basic skills) amid
holistic, integrated experiences.</b> This approach doesn’t mean that traditional
subjects are disrespected or abandoned. On the contrary, as James Beane writes,
‘the disciplines of knowledge are useful and necessary allies of curriculum
integration with knowledge being called upon to support student investigations
as required. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Nome of the
above will be new to progressive primary teachers and those secondary teachers
busy transforming their schools,</span> <span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">often in new purpose built environments.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> For many the book
will be a practical inspiration to confirm or transform their teaching.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">If widely
applied in our school system students will leave with their talents, interests
and passion tapped and amplified, equipped with appropriate learning skills,
and will not leave schools not knowing what to do with their future – they will
have seen the point of their schooling</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-65639650142622916232019-07-03T15:02:00.000+12:002019-07-03T23:28:21.257+12:00A lost voice for creative education - time to call it a day?<br />
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Time to call it a day?</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Readings
week 2 July 2019<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Our
Leading-Learning blog has a long history.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It began as Primary Arts Magazines set up by
<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2013/04/creativity-its-place-in-education_2.html" target="_blank">Wayne Morris </a>and Bruce in 1980. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Over 25 editions were printed. </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">They were hand </b><b>compiled</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> and posted and when subscribers got over 500 it was all too much.</b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the 25 Primary Art Magazines</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The
premise of the magazine was to share the ideas of creative teachers</b> –
teachers who were developing student centred programmes with an emphasis <b>on
using the local environment, the importance of the creative arts and develop
stimulating room environments featuring student work</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wayne
and Bruce then developed a website in the 90s with an associated e-zine which
was sent out to 4000 members</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> – this worked well until, with a change of web master the
e-zines were rejected as spam by many schools. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At
this stage Bruce established the Leading–Learning blog in 2004 and in later
years Allan Alach joined him in this. 1569 blogs have been posted with a total
of 2 million visits.<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><b>Tomorrows
Schools</b> have had a <b>corrosive</b> effect on school collaboration</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Public
schooling has been distorted by the competitive ethic of self centred Tomorrows
Schools and, in particular the corrosive effect of National Standards.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We
now feel that it’s time to call it a day as we no longer have any real contact
with schools and we also feel that schools have been hi-jacked by standardised
teaching, an over emphasis on literacy and numeracy</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (nine years of National Standards
has all but killed real creativity in primary schools). <a href="https://educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-peter-oconnor-why-are-we-not-resourcing-all-teachers-to-be-creatives/" target="_blank">We wrote about this
sharing </a></span><a href="https://educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-peter-oconnor-why-are-we-not-resourcing-all-teachers-to-be-creatives/" target="_blank"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Professor</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><b><span lang="PT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: PT;">Peter O</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></b><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Conner</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’s</span></b></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://educationcentral.co.nz/opinion-peter-oconnor-why-are-we-not-resourcing-all-teachers-to-be-creatives/" target="_blank"> view in our last blog.</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>The last straw.Above a impersonal school report</b> with a antiquated narrow focus from a large school. The sign of a system gone terribly wrong. What gifts and talents have been developed? What key competencies have been identified and amplified?<br />
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is an interesting challenge to<b> reflect on the influences that have contributed
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bruce
has had a long career as a school adviser beginning in the 60s – first in
science then in art.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Bruce and Allan Alach were both influenced by philosophy
expressed in<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2009/10/reclaiming-joy-of-learning.html" target="_blank"> the inspirational book <b>In the Early World written </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by<b> Elwyn Richardson</b></span>.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thankfully the book has been recently
reprinted by the NZCER and we recommend all schools buy a copy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As
an adviser, in the mid-sixties, Bruce was influenced by teachers, mainly in
small rural schools, who were implementing similar ideas to those written about
by Elwyn</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.
Central to this creativity (it was the 60s!) was t<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/01/looking-back.html" target="_blank">he influence of </a></span><b><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DA;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/01/looking-back.html" target="_blank">Dr Beeby</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> who had introduced a
developmental teaching philosophy post WW2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-dewey-educator-for-21stc.html" target="_blank">Also behind such ideas was the philosophy of American educator </a></span><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-dewey-educator-for-21stc.html" target="_blank">JohnDewey</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">T<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2005/12/time-for-rebirth-of-creative-spirit.html" target="_blank">heArt Advisers</a>,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> established by Dr Beeby, assumed an important role in spreading the
ideas of creative teachers.<b> <a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/04/beginnings-of-creative-teaching.html" target="_blank">The art advisers ran related arts programmes</a></b><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/04/beginnings-of-creative-teaching.html" target="_blank">throughout</a> New Zealand, one of which Bruce attended.<b> The arts are vital to
ensure students a positive sense of self </b>– through art, language, music and
dance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Teachers
in rural schools introduced the first integrated programmes moving away from
the heavily timetables programmes</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, with an emphasis on literacy and numeracy, of the
day. Schools, under the pressure of National Standards, have move back to these
programmes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Firstly,
the English child centred primary schools</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (sadly lost under the pressure of
the National Curriculum, testing and league tables) that Bruce experienced
while teaching in England in 1969. This experience taught Bruce about <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the importance of slowing the pace of
student work</b> to develop quality, teacher<b> displays</b> to attract student
curiosity and of <b>displaying students work. </b><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2011/03/good-old-days.html" target="_blank"> Bruce worked with a group of Taranaki teachers in the 70sintroducing the open ended integratedinquiry programmes using the Nuffield Junior Science Project as a resource.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
second influence was the open education movement</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> from the United States which had a
similar student centred inquiry philosophy and led to the development of open
plan schools<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2015/01/john-holt-quotes-on-learning-more.html" target="_blank">. John Holt’s books HowChildren Learn and How Children Fai</a>l were key books and more relevant than
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><a href="https://networkonnet.wordpress.com/author/kelvinsmythe/" target="_blank">The third influence came from the lateKelvin Smythe and his holistic developmental approach</a></b>. Kelvin believed
strongly in <b>the importance of the affective in education </b>and deplored
the current fetish of objectivity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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final influence was Bruce’s involvement with the </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-zealands-all-but-forgotten-research.html" target="_blank">University of Waikato School of Education </a><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2015/08/new-zealands-all-but-forgotten-research.html" target="_blank">Learning in Science Projec</a>t</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> – essentially an inquiry model
that valued students’ prior ideas and set out to challenge them.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
was an amalgam of the above ideas that Bruce developed as a classroom teacher,
school principal and later working as a school adviser for Massey University
School of Education and then independently throughout NZ and internationally</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. <b>At this point Bruce
met up with Allan Alach, then a school principal, who shared similar ideas.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Central
to this philosophy is the centrality of the creative classroom teacher to any
real lasting innovation</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> - a position that has become almost untenable under the last
decades of compliance and standardisation. Time to call it a day?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the late 70s one of our open education <a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2015/01/john-holt-quotes-on-learning-more.html" target="_blank">‘gurus’John Holt, (author of How Children Learn and How Children Fail</a>),
disappointed us by giving up on schools ever being transformed in his book
‘Instead of Schools’<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
didn’t deter us them but we have now almost reached the same conclusion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. Almost, because we know
there are still teachers out their battling on, and with the change<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2016/08/new-zealand-curriculum-time-to-revisit.html" target="_blank"> ofgovernment, maybe the spirit of the 2007New Zealand Curriculum</a> will be implemented. Maybe? We have done our best.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2016/09/moving-away-from-traditional.html" target="_blank">What has really changed the past three decades</a> - not much in our opinion - that is if you ignore the false promise of modern technology which is no 'silver bullet' and more often a distraction an also the recycling of open plan schools of the 70s with modern learning environmnts.</span><br />
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other day Bruce was asked what would he do </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
first thing would be to ask the question of what’s the point of school</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">? <b>And what teaching
beliefs would underpin such a school?<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bruce
has always believed the challenge of schooling was</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <b>to identify, develop, amplify and
enhance to gifts and talents of all students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></b>The word education comes from ‘to bring the gifts out’. This view is
reflected by </span><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2018/03/educationreadings-this-week-featuring.html" target="_blank"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">Sir Ken Robinson</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’s </span></b></a><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: IT;">quote </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘creativity is as
important as literacy and numeracy’ and also <b><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2018/03/educationreadings-this-week-featuring.html" target="_blank">Guy Claxton</a></b> who has said
‘learnacy is as important as literacy and numeracy’. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Making certain
students’ developed positive attitudes towards all areas of learning would need
to be assured.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
role of school is to create those conditions that make students want to learn;</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
not have to learn but want to learn more about self, others, and the world. The
teacher’s role is to help the learner </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">forge connections between what he or she
wants to know and what a learner wants to learn.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What
if we started with the premise that school could be the most interesting place
in a young person’s life? </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The challenge is to create experiences
and contexts in classrooms where students can discover things they don’t know
they love by implementing project that spur creativity, ownership and
relevance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Learning
experiences would need to feature real experiences </span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">through the senses and that
information technology can be integrated in such learning but that it is no
‘silver bullet’ in itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Projects
would be based around students’ questions, value their current theories, and
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them to consider new views. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This does
not leave studies to students to decide – the teacher’s role is best summed up
by <b>Jerome Bruner</b> ‘teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Literacy and numeracy would be learnt through real contexts and help given as an when necessary</b>.The current emphasis has not improved our reading scores on international tests and maths still creates a feeling of maths anxiety. So much current teaching is based on the premise that without teachers students wouldn't learn - <b>time to create the conditions and trust students do what they do naturally - learn</b>!</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Literacy and numeracy need to be re-imagined as foundation skills best learnt in real contexts .</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">The artistry of a creative teacher.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Bruce believes that the feeling from completing an excellent piece of learning - exceeding ones personal best - in any Learning Area is the most powerful motivation of all.</b> <b>Helping students who exhibit lack of ability/interest achieve a sense of pride</b> in any activity <b>is the artistry of a creative teache</b>r - a teachers who is able t<b>o slow the pace of work to allow positive interactions</b></span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bruce
also believed we do not have an ‘achievement gap’ but more an ‘opportunity gap’</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> – the school’s role is to
create the conditions to give every learner the opportunity to learn through
having positive experiences (this would mean the banning of ability
grouping).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
teachers appointed would need to align all their interactions with their
students behind such ideas.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Teachers would be selected also for their diverse set of
interests because Bruce believes that w<b>e learn from the company we keep</b></span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">areas of learning would need to be assured.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">The
total environment is the ultimate teacher. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bruce
sees the total culture developed as the best teacher</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. Establishing a
‘tempting’ environment to attract students’ curiosity is the challenge for
teachers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>To achieve this the schools
needs to be envisaged</b> as an amalgam of an artist’s studio, a
science/technology lab, a media centre, drama and music areas, and plentiful
areas to exhibit and display student creativity – <b>an educational Te Papa</b>
– where students and teachers work together in teams solving problems and
displaying their results for all to see. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
as for assessment</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> – just check out the portfolios of the students’ involved.
The concept to be valued is for every student to better their own ‘personal
best’.</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Imagine
how schools would be transformed if such ideas were implemented?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Bruce
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">This week's Readings</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b>Peter O’Connor’s</b> article about the killing of creativity.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Hyperlink0"><a href="http://bit.ly/2RKuJSc">http://bit.ly/2RKuJSc</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Educational
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">T<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">he importance of the arts in the development of the self</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Helping
the students answer the question who am I?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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21st Context</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/For%20the%20importance%20of%20the%20arts%20in%20the%20development%20of%20the%20self%20http://bit.ly/2r1R539" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Link to reading</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">.</span></b></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The
need to slow the pace of work the key to quality</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">It's
our responsibility to keep the creative arts alive</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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must ensure that the creative arts aren't squeezed out and that the temptation
to narrow the curriculum doesn’t win<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Schools
are rethinking classroom design to encourage collaboration, creativity</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">In
which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education Part 3</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Another
instalment from Kelvin Smythe’s ATTACK series that he completed just before he
died:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The pure, uncomplicated
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">culture.
But, particularly f<b>rom the mid-thirties, there was a coming together of events,
ideas and people including the depression, the election of a Labour government,
the political education leadership of Peter Fraser, the ideas of John Dewey,
progressive education thinkers from England, the influence of New Zealand
educationists like Clarence Beeby and, tellingly for what follows, Gwen
Somerset, a New Zealand-born primary teacher and infant mistress.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; line-height: 107%;"> <b>– the missing element in education</b></span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Readings 24th June 2019</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">We are coming to the thought that <b>we are speaking to a
minority</b> in our efforts <b>to encourage an education system that places creativity
and the creative arts central</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to
teaching and learning</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Confirmed by views seen recently on TV</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>The views of classrooms on show (with a couple of
exceptions) through the teachers’ strike </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>indicated to us a system featuring an
emphasis on literacy and numeracy with work on display more to do with teachers
than celebrating student creativity</b>.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> As well, postings on the Teachers’
Facebook page seem to illustrate c<b>reativity more as decoration </b>often clone like
in appearance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And <b>the issue of workload
seems to relate to an obsession with testing, assessment and associated
documentation</b> once again focused around literacy and numeracy – areas that seem
to take up most</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> of the morning leaving little time for equally important Learning Areas. And to
make it worse associated with <b>demeaning ability grouping</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">Let’s leave current formulaic teaching models</span></span><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: small;">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Formulaic teaching seems entrenched</b>. WALTs, learning
intentions, success criteria, the over use of feedback, the growing emphasis on
phonics indicates a teacher orientated approach to learning, one in which
creativity is at risk.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Where is the emphasis on developing the gifts and
talents of students?</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>We do recognize areas that value student creativity</b>
such as: play based learning (with its similarity to 1950/60s developmental
teaching); the concept of student agency; place based learning; Project Based
Learning; and personalized learning (which, however, has been captured by
‘thin’ or fragile’ learning via Google) and the potential of Flexible Learning
Environments.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Where has the creativity gone?</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Professor Peter O’Connor</b> (Faculty of Education Auckland
University) has written "Schools as we know them were originally designed
at the same time as mass industrialization began. Not <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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surprisingly factories
and<b> schools centre around the testing and standardization</b> of the products they
make and <b>value conformity and uniformity</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>The need to take risks</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Creativity in these environments shrivels because its
fundamental includes a willingness to take risks, to be curious, to be playful
with ideas and to consider possibilities to make something not seen or imagined
before</b>. This approach has <b>never been a feature of New Zealand schools</b> except in
isolated instances and for a brief period in the 1950s, when progressive
education philosophies were introduced.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Art and well being</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNMxyfJP-h1r5XNuGr2WnNDndNCGXlnXwwVxscMI7g_7EgTzT0oJ2V8bEVfkR_JNgbgTcTqmcONgW-pixYaC4gBp61Ne-mkvJX_1ZwFPAYvVCJELZeAYySPsxE6tboJO3xzRc/s1600/arts+ed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="370" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJNMxyfJP-h1r5XNuGr2WnNDndNCGXlnXwwVxscMI7g_7EgTzT0oJ2V8bEVfkR_JNgbgTcTqmcONgW-pixYaC4gBp61Ne-mkvJX_1ZwFPAYvVCJELZeAYySPsxE6tboJO3xzRc/s200/arts+ed.jpg" width="173" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>The vitality of schools at the time was based on the
twin ideas that the arts train the imagination, and the social imagination is
vital for social progress, social justice and national wellbeing. There was a
belief that the arts and education were a strong foundation stones for a strong
democracy.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>The need for creative </b><b>empathetic</b><b> citizens</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>It was understood that one of the school’s primary
functions was to create critical, creative empathetic citizens as a safeguard
against the rise of extremism.”</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Creativity killed by National Standards</b> and STEM</span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Standards essentially killed off creativity in New Zealand schools</b>. The
overriding focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) was
highly effective in dismantling the arts across the whole education system…”.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“The arts curriculum is the vital tool for teachers to
be creative with their children and be creative themselves.”</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>We couldn’t agree more with ProfessorO’Connor</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Sir Ken Robinson writes a similar story about the need
to move away from current standardization. He writes one role of education is
to help people develop their natural talents and abilities’. ‘We have the
opportunity to rethink the whole ecosystem of education. We need to reinvent
schools…..We need to stir the motivation , vision, optimism and political
commitment’.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b><a href="https://modernlearners.com/" target="_blank">The Modern Learning site </a>– and Seymour Sarason</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>The Modern Learning</b> site always provides valuable
inspiration for teachers willing to move into creative teaching. <b>Their writers
often quote Seymour Sarason about his need for the artistry of teaching
who says teachers need to create ‘those conditions that make students want to
learn; </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>not have to learn but want to learn more about self, others, and the
world…..you seek to help the child forge connections between what he or she
wants to know and what the child wants to learn’.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">What if ....</b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> So, the Modern Learners write
‘<b>what if we started with the premise that school could be the most interesting
place in a young person’s life given our curious, connected, self-directed
modern learners are truly capable of doing what was previously unimaginable.’</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> <b>From a New</b> Ze<b>aland site: <a href="http://numberagents.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Number Agents</a></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5rNFzM2GVx-gaheApIxe5ZgaVVVXN0t60zbtkV3NwMzenQMr9AHntUjyWztDWemUs3hyphenhyphenTc2W6X1RpLvvB6swk82KSeSzDPTBNkEno14lVnE2_qKjn34waFQQCl9g4S_diWSQ/s1600/assessmen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="270" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5rNFzM2GVx-gaheApIxe5ZgaVVVXN0t60zbtkV3NwMzenQMr9AHntUjyWztDWemUs3hyphenhyphenTc2W6X1RpLvvB6swk82KSeSzDPTBNkEno14lVnE2_qKjn34waFQQCl9g4S_diWSQ/s200/assessmen.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In contrast New Zealand site Number Agents write, <b>‘we
need to stop constantly measuring children against so called benchmarks.
Measuring and gathering data does nothing to help the child’s growth, but does
take up time that could instead be used for fostering and inspiring the joy of
learning.</b>’</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">An old <b>Rural Adviser</b> once said ‘t<b>eachers have
two important attributes, their energy and their time and if they waste in on
b/s they can’t teach</b>’.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>The artistry of the creative teacher - <a href="https://modernlearners.com/" target="_blank">Modern Learning site</a></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘The question is’, <b>Gary Stager</b> writes in a
<a href="https://modernlearners.com/" target="_blank">Modern Learning</a> posting, ‘<b>how can we create </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>experiences and context in
classroom where kids can discover things they don’t know they love? This is
done by implementing good projects that spur creativity, ownership and relevance'</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">One of our favourite quotes comes from </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">Jerome
Bruner</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">, </span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">who says 'teaching is the canny </b><b>art</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> of intellectual temptation'</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.Another favourite writer of ours is <b>Frank Smith</b> who writes, <b>‘we
become like the company we keep, we learn to be like them .. the identification creates
the possibilities of learning. All learning pivots on who we think we are, and
who we see ourselves as capable of becoming’.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">A metaphor for a classroom</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>We see classrooms as an amalgam of a museum, art
studio, media centre, laboratory and exhibition gallery populated by
interesting talented teachers</b></span><br />
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students will learn – it’s what they do.</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b> No need for the current tiresome
assessment models – the work the students complete, their portfolios, will be
evaluation enough.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">THIS IS A <b>MUST READ</b> ARTICLE.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘I believe nine years of National Standards
essentially killed off creativity in New Zealand schools.</b> The overriding focus
on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) was highly effective in
dismantling the arts across the whole education system.'</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Sir Ken Robinson – time to personalize education</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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education. Here's how we can fix our schools. "The movement towards
personalisation</b> is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that
direction in education, too”’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><b>Critically Endangered: The Art of Teaching from
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>In the face of so much
science, a critical but overlooked, component to teaching is becoming
increasingly rare in the classroom - creativity</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An area that is not
easily quantified into numerical data, inputs and outputs, <b>the use of
creativity by a classroom teacher to ensure a level of joy in learning and
teaching extends the science of teaching into the art of it.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘Despite the centrality of curiosity to all scientific
endeavors, there’s a relative dearth of studies on the subject itself.</b>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fortunately, scientists are actively unraveling this concept and, in the
process, making a convincing <o:p></o:p></span></i><i style="font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">case that <b>we can and should teach young minds to
embrace their inquisitive nature.’</b></span></i></div>
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with no known answers </b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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‘wicked problems’”.</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>This is Why
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘Imagination is what stays when teachers are gone from
their students’ lives. It’s what students have taken
from a creative classroom and into real life.</b> While basic
knowledge and facts are important building blocks, imagination is the synthesis
of that knowledge<b>. It’s the vehicle that gets learners from point A to point B
on their own.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In which Pooh
looks for a 21st Century Education Part</span> 2</b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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instalment from Kelvin Smythe’s ATTACK series that he completed just before he
died:</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘Except as a chronological expression, 21st century
education is nothing special, remaining part of a continuity that, despite
considerable twisting and turning, remains just that, a continuity;</b> the
technological disruption predicted for that chronological expression being just
a further example of ideological disruption that is always there or near in the
sensitive and value-laden area of school education.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and
fresh air and play</b>.</span><b><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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poems and music, the damage is not so easy to see. It’s there, though. Their
bodies are healthy enough; they can run and jump and swim and eat hungrily and
make lots of noise, as children have always done, but something is missing.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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transformation</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, <b>creativity and talent development in earlier blogs:</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Readings 14</span><sup style="text-align: start;">th</sup><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"> June 2019</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Now
that the salary negotiations look like they will be settled it’s time to focus
on teaching and learning. There is a reading below written by Sir Ken Robinson
about the need to move from standardisation to transformation. A good read.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Time now to place the NZC central to learning</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>We
both believe in the need for primary schools to now place the intent of the New
Zealand </b></span></div>
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<b>Curriculum up front and central and move away from the, as one
commentator has said, ‘the evil twins of literacy and numeracy that have all
but gobbled up the entire curriculum</b>’.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It is
not that literacy and numeracy aren’t important. Obviously they are but<b> they
need to be seen as ‘foundation skills’ necessary for students to develop their
interests, talents and personal concerns</b>. As such they are best ‘taught’ in
context with students requiring help to be withdrawn for ‘catch up’ help and
returned back as soon as possible to the ‘game of learning’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">What
is the ‘</span><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 107%;">message</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">’ of your timetable?</span></span></div>
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at your timetable will indicate how much time traditional teaching of literacy
and numeracy takes up and, by default, how many other areas are neglected.
Schools need to focus on developing the gifts and talents of all students and
to do this requires reimagining the timetable.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">There
are schools that have done just this but they are few and far between. <b>Possibly
the best inspiration for integrated learning comes from the distant past – the
writings of pioneer teacher Elwyn Richardson. His book, ‘In the Early World’ has
been reprinted by the NZCER and is still one of best book about creative
teaching</b>. Elwyn saw his class as a community of artists and scientists busy
exploring and creating about their environment and personal concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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secondary schools</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>It
seems to us that the centre of educational innovation is now to be seen in a
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Claire Amos Albany High School<br />
A strong voice for change</td></tr>
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innovative secondary schools</b>. These schools, in their modern flexible
buildings, have moved away from traditional compartmentalised disciplines of
the past and are developing integrated curriculums making full use of modern
technology. <b> </b><b>Once the centre of
innovation was once to be seen in many primary classrooms particularly in the
junior classes.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ironically
these innovative secondary schools are currently facing up to the prospect of
having literacy and numeracy requirements placed on them. Evidently too many
students enter, or leave, secondary education without these in place. So much
for decades of standardised teaching in these areas in primary schools.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Schools
as ‘</span><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 107%;">mini Te Papa</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We
imagine schools as being ‘</span><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: IT;">mini Te Papa</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’. Students (and their parents) who
enter such schools would be faced with a range of displays of students’ researched
studies from across the </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students would be seen at work in teams
completing a range of projects, many making use of a range of information
technology to research and express their findings</b>. Although students’ concerns
and interests would be central teachers follow J<b>erome Bruner’s</b> advice that ‘teaching
is the canny art of intellectual temptation’ and are expert at providing ‘tempting’
experiences that capture student curiosity; and teachers who appreciate the
inquiry cycle and the concept of <b>Howard Gardner</b>’</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">s Multiple
Intelligences.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">It’s
the culture that teaches – ‘culture counts’.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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believe that it is the total environment that students are exposed to that ‘teaches’
students what is important</b> and that this environment (or culture) includes not
only ‘tempting’ activities but also respectful relationships between all
involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The
teachers in our ‘imagined’ school would need to have a wide range of personal
interests to share</b>, covering as many areas of the curriculum as possible – including
expertise in reading and maths, information technology, behaviour, history,
design et etc. <b>Some of the best things are learnt through the company we keep.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Students
lived experience and co</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">ncerns central</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>We envisage an education that places at centre the experiences and interests of the
learners, their questions and theories, and gives serious attention to the work
the students create.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Something
to think about? We think so.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Allan Alach and Bruce Hammonds</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">From Sir Ken Robinson: time to pesonalise education!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Standardisation
broke education. Here's how we can fix our schools</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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movement towards personalisation is already advancing in medicine. We must move
quickly in that direction in education, too". <b>Standardisation broke
education. Here's how we can fix our schools.</b> "The movement towards
<b>personalisation</b> is already advancing in medicine. <b>We must move quickly in that
direction in education, too</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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organizing learning around meaningful goals, PBL can be an effective way to
cultivate a “need to know” attitude in student</b>s—students are motivated to
deepen their understanding in order to solve a problem that is meaningful to
them. <b>Concepts are better understood when students see a need for their use</b>
because that need encourages them to apply what they’re learning to relevant
situations, leading to a better sense of understanding.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Things Every School Must Do To Prepare For The 4th Industrial Revolution<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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government officials, and parents must re-think education and how to prepare
the next generation to take advantage of the plethora of opportunities and
overcome the challenges enabled by ever-increasing technological change</b>. Here
are some of the changes happening because of the 4th Industrial Revolution and
<b>eight things every school must do</b> to prepare for the 4th Industrial Revolution’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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quiet secret of an open learning environment</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Werkplaats in Bilthoven is one of the Netherlands</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’ <b>first primary schools
without any classrooms, </b>where pupils and teachers work in <b>an open learning
environment</b>. The environment should adapt to the child rather than the other
way around.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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which Pooh looks for a 21st Century Education. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">From
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day, when Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet were all talking
together, Christopher Robin finished the mouthful he was eating and said
carelessly: <b>‘I saw a 21st Century Education to-day, Piglet.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Just
lumping along,’ said Christopher Robin. ‘I don’t think it saw me.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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saw one once,’ said Piglet. ‘At least I think I did,’ he said. ‘Only perhaps it
wasn’t.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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did I,’ said Pooh <b>wondering what a 21st Century Education was like</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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don’t often see them,’ said Christopher Robin matter-of-factly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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now,’ said Piglet.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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at this time of year,’ said Pooh.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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do not have to worry about curricula, lesson plans, motivating children to
learn, testing them, and all the rest that comes under the rubric of pedagogy.
Lets turn that energy, instead, toward creating decent environments in which
children can play</b>. Children's education is children's responsibility, not ours.
Only they can do it. They are built to do it. Our task regarding education is
just to stand back and let it happen. <b>The more we try to control it, the more
we interfere.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is the art of learning</b>. Learning to ask important questions is the best
evidence of understanding there is, far surpassing the temporary endorphins of
a correct ‘answer.’”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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real agenda - New Minds for a New Millennium</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to create learning environments to develop the interests, gifts and talents of
all students.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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of the impossible assessment workload ? Time to put Sir Ken's transformational
ideas into action.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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or read the thoughts of Sir Ken Robinson's about transforming education ‘from
the ground up’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as outlined in his book
Creative Schools. He writes, ‘creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy’.
We think it is now time now to put his ideas into action.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">The
question for all learners ; ‘Who Am I?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>“‘Who
am I?’ is the most important question for students? And are schools helping
provide an </b></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>answer? ‘What makes me who I am?’ The questions above should
underpin all the activities in our education system</b>. That so many young people
leave education with these questions unanswered ought to be of great concern
and worse still leaves students open to becoming to become involved in
anti-social behaviour.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Past Present and Future of teaching and learning</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For a
number of years, we have published our blog which often includes a set of
readings that we hope teachers might find worth reading. We know that teachers
are far too busy to spend time searching but we also know that keeping up with
reading about new ideas is an important part of being a professional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We
appreciate that only a few will read our blog but as someone once said there is
nothing like a hopeless cause – climate change comes to mind.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Vision – a view from the edge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Our
Vision is for schools to create learning environments to develop the interests,
gifts and talents of all students</b>. Our Vision relates back to such <a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-dewey-educator-for-21stc.html" target="_blank">writers suchas John Dewey</a> and in New Zealand to the philosophy of<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/01/looking-back.html" target="_blank"> Dr Beeby who, as Directorof Education </a>of the First Labour Government, introduced progressive ideas into
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Communities of scientists and artists</span></div>
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For us it is the work of p<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2015/12/christmas-holiday-reading-new.html" target="_blank">ioneer teacherElwyn Richardson </a>that is our inspiration. Elwyn believed that his class was a
community of artists and scientists exploring and expressing their ideas about
their experiences. Important in this development and sharing of creative
teaching was the work of the art advisers who developed related arts
programmes. And we would add<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> <a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/10/power-through-reading.html" target="_blank">S</a></span><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/10/power-through-reading.html" target="_blank"><b style="font-size: 12pt;">ylvia </b><b style="font-size: 16px;">Ashton Warner</b></a><span style="font-size: 16px;"> and<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2010/06/write-now-read-later.html" target="_blank"> </a></span><b style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2010/06/write-now-read-later.html" target="_blank">Marie Clay</a></b><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2010/06/write-now-read-later.html" target="_blank"> </a>whose ideas about reading are as relevant as ever</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> More recently holistic ideas about
developmental holistic progressive education were championed by th<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2008/05/critical-view-of-new-zealand-curriculum.html" target="_blank">e late KelvinSmythe</a> who fought the fight against the mechanistic, formulaic and technocratic
approaches imposed on schools over the past three decades.</span></div>
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forgotten history, we guess, for many teachers today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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view is possibly from the edge but it is the edge where new ideas evolve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of creative growth</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: 12pt;">It seems to us the centre of progressive education has shifted to </b><b style="font-size: 12pt;">a few new innovative
secondary schools</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">. Currently their creativity is under threat with the possible
introduction of literacy and numeracy requirements for all students rather than
these areas integrated into meaningful contexts.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You would’ve thought that with the current
focus on testing, assessment and documentation in these areas in primary
schools, this would not be a problem?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Innovative
secondary schools are experimenting with new organisations while most primary
classroom timetable have changed little over the decades,</b> if anything, have
become more traditional than ever with their over emphasis on literacy and
numeracy (with their shameful ability grouping).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>There
are also signs of progressive growth in the primary area</b>. Such things as ‘play
based learning’ (1950/60s developmental teaching), ‘place based learning’ (earlier
environmental education), ‘project based learning’ (John Dewey lives on), and
integrated learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there is, of
course, the introduction of Modern Learning Environments (70s open plan schools
revisited) and the use of modern information technology which is still ‘over
promised and underutilised’; used properly it can amplify student </span><br />
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and numeracy still, it seems, reign supreme along with oppressive testing,
assessment and documentation requirements – often self-imposed by the schools
themselves.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to develop communities of learning</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now to focus on developing classrooms as creative learning communities with the
overriding aim of developing the gifts and talents of all students and to see
literacy and numeracy as foundation skills necessary to achieve this end.</b> We
imagine modern classrooms as ‘</span><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: IT;">mini Te Papa</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’ where students answer questions
that are relevant to them, digging deeply into such areas to create
exhibitions, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">displays, demonstrations and portfolios of based on their
researching and, in addition, making use of all the creative arts to express
their ideas. This aligns with the NZC which asks teachers to ensure students
are able ‘to seek use and create their own knowledge’ – personalized learning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Students
in such an environment learn to see the world holistically in contrast to the traditional
fragmented approach of many schools – ‘new minds for a new millennium’.
Students driven by purpose – new minds amplified by new technology.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as the most creative career</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> of all</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Creating
such a learning environment would make teaching the most creative career of
all.</b> And it’s not simply handing learning over to the students. As Jerome
Bruner has written, ‘teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation’ and
they will also need to withdraw learners to teach missing skills so learners can
get back to the exciting task of the ‘game of learning’ they were born to play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>It is
this Vision that keeps us posting – even if most teachers are too busy to
notice. A<a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2018/05/time-again-to-focus-on-teacher.html" target="_blank">s Elwyn Richardson</a> used to quote, ‘It’s hard to remember you came to
drain the swamp when </b></span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">you are up to your backside in alligators’</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Bruce
Hammonds and Allan Alach</b><br />
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Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Anthropologists
have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children
without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless, Europeans colonizing North
America tried to “civilize” indigenous children in punitive boarding schools,
unaware that Natives possessed a sophisticated philosophy that treated children
with deep respect.”’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">students all made the same thing as she instructed them on how to do it.“There
was no room for creativity,” she said. “Everything was preplanned for them.
There was a moment where I realized, ‘Oh, these are my ideas and not my
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mastery, when students fathom a subject; identity, when they connect the
knowledge of the subject to their own sense of self; and creativity, when they
can apply that understanding to another endeavor in what Mehta calls “the next
layer of learning.”'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Dylan Wiliam In many ways, teaching is </span></i><i>an unusual job. It shares with other
professions the requirement that individuals make decisions with imperfect
knowledge, but, unlike other professions, there is no shared knowledge base – no
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progressive pedagogy are questions about student motivation: How can teachers best
motivate students? How can schools best motivate teachers?. Research tells us
that for this to happen, schools must first maximize the intrinsic motivation
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘When
it comes to “student achievement,” I hardly know where to start. Literally.
Should I begin with trying to define it? Or should I start with the fact that
hardly anyone defines it? Or that whatever definitions do exist suggest a total
lack of consensus and coherence?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the Brain and Creativity Institute (BCI) at the University of Southern
California shows that exposure to music and music instruction accelerates the
brain development of young children in the areas responsible for language
development, sound, reading skill and speech perception.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Your
child’s quirky art isn’t just cute—science suggests that even the most bizarre
depictions can have deep creative intention.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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because our doubts about what we know pique our curiosity and can motivate us
to learn more, according to new research from the University of California,
Berkeley. The findings, just published online in the journal Psychonomic
Bulletin & Review, challenge a popular belief that curiosity in general is
the prime driver of knowledge acquisition. They also give new meaning to the
Montessori approach to learning readiness, which encourages children to follow
their own natural inquisitiveness.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;"><b> slowing the pace of work</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was asked the
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It wasn</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t hard to answer </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">slow the pace of student</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s work</span>’</span></b>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It might seem
strange advice in this age of speed and continual distraction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We now live in a </span>‘<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">attention deficit </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">society where all too often things happen so
fast that we miss many important things. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In classrooms
students seem to believe that </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">first finished is best</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">but all too often this is <b><span style="color: #38761d;">counterproductive to in depth learning
/understanding</span></b>. As a result of this attitude (all too often encouraged by
teachers) the classroom can become a hectic environment and many students get
left behind in the rush. One old rural adviser once told me about </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">three quarter page students</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">- students who hardly ever complete
any task.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Over the years I
have written a number of blogs about this issue suggesting a number of ways to
develop a more reflective and less hectic approach to learning and I have added
links to a number of them</span></b>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It is important
to encourage students to do fewer things well; to take their time to improve on
their previous </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">personal
best</span></span></b>’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">'Kaizen '- the Japanese word for continual improvement</span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">m not sure if students complete much book work
these days with the introduction of word processing but if they do then
s<b>tudents should be encouraged to show continual improvement</b> </span>– <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in handwriting, layout and design,
quality of illustration. One book that shows this continual improvement are
handwriting books, particularly for the </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">new entrants</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">because it is easy to see visual improvement.
Guess that might sound somewhat </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">old fashioned</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">?
The same improvement needs to be seen in any portfolio of work at and level.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Paying attention to attention</b></span></span></div>
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of work is all about </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">paying
attention to attention</span>’</b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>.
Drawing is one easy area to develop visual awareness </b>but unfortunately the
innate interest in drawing is replaced at school by a focus on writing.
Observational drawing is one way to encourage awareness and it</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s something all students can do
(once teachers get rid of the </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I can</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t draw</span>’
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">attitude that many students
have pickedup). <b>The strategy is simple</b>. Encourage students to look draw/look
draw. Until they have finished. <b>All too often students look once and then rely
on memory.</b> And to break down the </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I can</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t draw</span>’
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">attitude <b>value the difference
in style of all students</b> </span>– <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">avoid saying that some student has done the best job!</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>From in-depth
observations (through drawing) students will develop both poetic thoughts to be
written and scientific questions to be researched and later be the basis of
imaginative art.</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Slowing the
pace of work</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">emphasizes
both process and product.</span></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Getting back to the question I was asked, <b>when
students can see their improvement, are surprised by the quality of their
achievement, then they feel better about themselves and become better learners.</b>
And the class environment becomes less hectic.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Slowing the pace
of work also allows the teacher time to come alongside learners to help if
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">required</span></b>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">I have included
blogs which introduce other writers who encourage this more reflective approach
to learning</span></b>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <b>Guy Claxton</b> talks about the </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">tortoise and the hare</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">; others talk about the </span>‘Haiku
Curriculum – <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">simple and deep</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others <b>(Carl Honore</b>) compare slow learning to slow eating to the fast
food outlets</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Doing fewer
things well in depth is worth the effort making teaching and learning a more
reflective act. As Mae West the silent screen actress once said </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">anything worth doing is worth doing
well</span>’</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Readings providing practical assistance to develop
quality learning.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Outlines a range of practical ideas about how
to slow the pace of work.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Exposure to the arts teaches
observation, or deep noticing. <b>There is a difference, as you know, between
looking and looking closely. </b>When students are asked to draw something, they
must look closely to accurately observe the lines and shapes of the object they
are trying to portray.<b> Students learn to see tiny differences and to record
them. Doesn't this sound like what a scientist does?’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>There are many benefits for kids as
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>skills</b>; learning how
to hold a pencil helps a child develop specialized movements with their hands,
fingers, and wrists. In addition, drawing improves hand-eye coordination that
demonstrates to a kid that what they see has a connection to what they do.
<b>Hand-eye coordination is important in many aspects of life, including playing
sports.’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Learning to observe through drawing
is a great way to start.</b> This blog provides a simple strategy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- look /draw/look.’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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as a common practice in many schools but, all too often, it is seen as an
isolated task and not the beginning of the creative process</b>. This is a shame
because, if it is not extended, it may be a limiting process emphasizing
realism over imagination.<b> The first thing for teachers to remember is that all
students have their own 'style' of drawing and if this is recognised then all
drawing will reflect the personal style of the young artists.’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Teaching
observation is important. I believe we look at so much and see so little. Hence
my belief that if we slow down our pace and allow ourselves the gift of
observation. </span>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Without
the input of looking ..no future artistic or intellectual output is possible.'
<b>'But drawings must go further than factual information, they are also able to
convey feelings, impressions, and emotion.</b> People who look harder, see more and
understand more.' '<b>Drawing is a way of asking questions and drawing </b>answers.'</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last week I was at a meeting
attended by Andrew Little Minister of Justice in the Labour Coalition
Government. During our conversation it arose that I had taught Andrew's
secretary in the mid-70s! I said I would find a photo for him to pass on to
her. I remembered that there was a photo of his secretary in <b>an article I had contributed
to an NZEI Forwards to Basics book edited by Jack Shallcrass in 1978</b>. Note the
young lady is now J<b>acinda Ar</b></span></i><i><b><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">dern</span>’</b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>s</b>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>While everyone else is rushing
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>pushing the 'slower'
idea of developing intuition,</b> hence the title of his book '<b>Hare Brain Tortoise
Mind</b> - how to increase your intelligence by thinking less</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Claxton is about valuing patience
and confusion which he believes are the precursors of real wisdom rather than
the current emphasis on rigor and certainty’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2002 British academic <b>Maurice
Holt, Professor Emeritus of Education University of Colorado, called for a
worldwide 'slow schools' movement.</b> in the last decades schools have been forced
to rush through a technocratic 'fast food' curriculum with endless superficial
learning objectives. <b>There is now no time for in depth learning; the curriculum
has become a 'mile wide and an inch deep.'</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Movement </span>– <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">we
need </span>‘</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">slow
learning movement</span>’.</span></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We need an educational equivalent of
the </span>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">slow food
movement</span>’ </i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>so as
to value the richness and relevance of any learning experience.</b> <b>Students need
to appreciate that the act of learning is at the very heart of their identity
and a high quality life and as such should not be rushed</b>. The standardized </span>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">fast education</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">, as exemplified by the curriculum
statements of the past decades, has resulted in a loss of appetite for real
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their 2006 book </span>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sustainable
Leadership</span>’ </i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">introduce
the <b>important idea of </b></span><b>‘</b></i><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">slow learning</span>’</b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>.</b> They draw on the ideas in psychologist Guy Claxton</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s books </span>‘</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Hare Brain Tortoise Mind'; and </span>‘</i><i><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">Wise Up</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. Claxton is concerned with developing students
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-85484938680647122412019-05-25T12:39:00.000+12:002019-05-25T14:37:49.690+12:00Tired of the impossible assessment workload ? Time to put Sir Ken's transformational ideas into action.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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teachers have heard or read the thoughts ofSir Ken Robinson's about transforming education</b> ‘from the
ground up’ as outlined in his book <b>Creative Schools.</b> <b>He
writes, ‘creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy’. We think it is
now time now to put his ideas into action</b>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>This is all
the more important after hearing on the Sunday Education TV programme where it
was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>said teachers are spending 60 hours
pus a week to cope with what is required of them</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Time surely for teachers to
get off the current obsessive assessment and associated documentation bandwagon
and consider a real alternative</b>. Workload demands seem to be mainly associated
with literacy and numeracy, much of it is generated by schools themselves!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(and many othe</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>rs) would make teaching more fun than the current compliance
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appreciate that there are a number of teachers already doing their best to
develop interesting ideas:</b> ‘play based learning’ (a modern interpretation of
1950/60s ‘developmental programmes’), ‘passion hours’, ‘wonder walls’, ‘mindfulness’,
flexible learning environments (another recycled idea reflecting the open plan
schools of the 70s), valuing the importance of ‘agency’, environmental education,
place based learning, Project Based Learning ( Dewey again!) the introduction
of information technology (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the</i>
current ‘silver bullet’) , developing a local curriculum, and so on. <b>All worthy
but all too often ‘add ons’ to the current system</b></span><br />
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practices such as the amount of time placed on literacy and numeracy, compounded
by obsessive assessment and documentation demands, block any real change</b></span><br />
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seen the introduction of formulaic standardised approaches</b> such as WALTs,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> ‘next steps’ (do we really
know enough about next steps or are we limiting our students to what we
think?), ‘success criteria’, ‘intentional teaching’, heavy handed feedback, and
prescribed learning objectives. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>And this will be worse with the introduction of PaCT
testing where teachers will be expected to assess students against learning
expectations in all learning areas – an impossible task</b></span></div>
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to be missing is:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>first hand experiential learning, the valuing of the personal world of students, a lack of
focus on developing every learners’ talents and gifts, integrated learning , and, most of all, an appreciation of the idiosyncratic creativity of students</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>If
teachers provided skills at point of need this would result in quality learning
across the curriculum</b> and the creation of room environments that celebrate
students’ creativity across the curriculum. <b>We see classrooms as ‘mini Te Papa’
– with the students busy researching questions they feel is important, creating
exhibitions (and portfolios), arranging demonstrations and interactive displays
all featuring their language and art and making use of information technology.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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outlined above would be in the spirit of the New Zealand Curriculum which
states, students need to ‘seek, use and create their own knowledge</b>’. As an aside there are
those that </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">believe process is more important than process but we beg to differ
– both are important and student can only grow when they can see or feel they
are progressing.<b> Students learn through creation; knowledge, in this sense, is
a ‘verb, a doing word.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>In such an
environment students are self-educating/assessing, continually developing new
knowledge, picking up required skills (including literacy and numeracy) as needed
on the job for any project, working in teams as scientists and artists,
developing lifelong learning attributes - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>entrepreneurship and creativity vital for future
success</b>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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nothing new</b> and goes back to such educators like John Dewey who wrote ‘children
grow into tomorrow as they live today’.<b> For too long we seem to have followed
the standardised ‘assembly line’ approach</b> of Henry Ford fragmenting learning in
the process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The challenge for teachers is to set up the condition to encourage learning, to trust students
to explore areas of interest to them, and help to them acquire skills as
necessary to complete work of pride</b></span> <span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">and, in the process of such learning,<b> ensure students develop
the ability to assess their own progress against their previous best</b>. This does
not mean leaving learning up to chance. The teachers’ role, as educationalist
Jerome Bruner writes, ‘is the canny art of intellectual temptation’ and
teachers could provide a range of challenges to ‘tempt’ learning. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>If teachers do
this then they could amplify the curiosity, resourcefulness, creativity and
confidence that are innate human qualities</b> – until they enter formal schooling
where teachers determine and assess learning of things the teachers feel is
important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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better or worse.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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but all too often students dislike what it is they are being <b>taught to learn.
The most efficient learning comes when we learn about things we want to learn
about and in such situation we need little help.</b> This is ‘<b>learning by doing’</b>. Ironically
if students really want to learn something then they are happy to acquire
knowledge and skills using the internet or in formal situations from knowledgeable
adults. <b>Flexible learning environment have an advantage in this respect if the
‘adults’ a have arrange of personal interests to share</b> such as teaching a new sport,
information media, a musical instrument or presenting a play. Finally, the
<b>students must become their own teachers</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teacher helps students with a light hand,</b> finding out what the learner already
know or can do, encouraging them to them answer their own questions, valuing
the ideas they bring to the situation, modelling, giving feedback, providing
emotional support, encouraging risk taking, always </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">respecting the student’s </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">efforts, and always ensuring the learner feels in control. <b>This is teaching as
a creative act in itself.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Imagine
entering into such a learning environment. </b>Such an environment builds on the
ideas of pioneer New Zealand educationalist Elwyn Richardson in his book <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In the Early World</b>. Elwyn saw his
classroom as <b>a community of scientists and artists exploring and expressing
ideas</b> about their world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>We see such ideas
as transforming education and in the process making it far more attractive to
those who want to become teachers.</b> If schools can’t create such ‘tempting’
environments students will bi-pass formal school and learn for themselves – as
many are already doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teachers could start with Sir Ken Robinson's book. Sir Ken proposes a highly
personalised approach; one that engages all students, develop their individual
abilities and their love of learning.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Includes a
number of videos to share with staff and parents,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The video talk will have you laughing
as well as seriously reflecting that our education system as currently
structured is harming far too many creative students</b>. Decide for yourself after
viewing. If you go to the TEDTalk site, you can 'google' Sir Ken and then look
for his video clip<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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his address to the PN Inspired Impact Course 2011</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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for students? Who Am I?</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><b> A close look at t</b></span><span lang="EN-NZ" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b>he daily classroom organisation /timetable is a sure way to get an idea of what is seen as important by the teacher</b> – or the school. All too often today’s daily organisation still reflects past expectations</span></span></div>
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time when New Zealand</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>primary education
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placing the learner at the centre of
learning</b>. When education was driven by a belief in the creative power of the
learners themselves; when learning was based on the internal and external lives
of the children.<b> But since Tomorrows Schools things have changed.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Today schools have been distracted by
assessment, achievement data and measurement by standards</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The evidence is becoming clear in our rush to
towards achieving measurable results children’s curiosity has been eroded.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">C</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">reativity – its place in education – Wayne
Morris</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53-cxhSD_ND97M3wNtFxgNRbo4scPatvqrOhYeKTbbySoP0btuYlUX8BzoMeZrScduU38WKS4JvPCrkvyF5BG59dy8-2NxmSpJqTLA2d-SIsv-rRKVss4wy8nvSaCMiqN5UIx/s1600/wayne+morris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh53-cxhSD_ND97M3wNtFxgNRbo4scPatvqrOhYeKTbbySoP0btuYlUX8BzoMeZrScduU38WKS4JvPCrkvyF5BG59dy8-2NxmSpJqTLA2d-SIsv-rRKVss4wy8nvSaCMiqN5UIx/s1600/wayne+morris.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘The answer
must be reform in our educational methods so that students are encouraged to
ask about “know-why” as well as “know-how”.<b> Once the arts are restored to a
more central role in educational institutions, there could be a tremendous
unleashing of creative energy in other disciplines too.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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purpose of school or why we send our kids there, it</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>s just
something we do.</b> But every country should be asking themselves what schools are
for.<b> In order to have an idea about what our countries are going to be like in
the future, we need to know what the purpose of our schools is</b>. At the moment
it appears to be content transmission and testing, and that isn</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">t going to
produce the kind of innovators we need.’</span><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">On Teaching Reading, S</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">pelling, and Related Subjects</span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Half Truths About Whole Language, by </span><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DA;">Alfie
Kohn</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">‘<b>While there is no precise, universally accepted
definition of Whole Language, and no party line f</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>or its proponents, this much
is clear:</b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">it
isn</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t
the </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: FR;">opposite</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">” </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of phonics,
and it doesn</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>t
deny the importance of phonics</b>.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even Kenneth Goodman, a pioneer of
the Whole Language movement whose views are sometimes considered extreme,
agrees that </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">you
cannot read an alphabetic language without using and learning phonics.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Five Ways Design and Making Can Help Science Education
Come Alive</span></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘Design is an artistic endeavor that values the
creative and human centered application of </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>math, science and technology. </b>Using
design to help others learn science is not intuitive, however, once practiced
you will see how humanistic and authentic it is to incorporate design in any
subject. Below is a list of the most promising benefits that I have noticed in
the past six years for using design as a framework and making as the engine to
empower students as they gain and apply their scientific literacy.’</span><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-62874833364321049742019-05-19T14:36:00.000+12:002019-05-19T14:37:22.899+12:00What is the most important question for students ? And are schools helping provide an answer?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Years ago New Zealand artist <b>Colin McCahon</b> created a
controversial large abstract painting </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">called </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">I Am</span></b></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>’</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>For us the message was answering the question that we
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>struggle with - who am I? What things are important to me? What makes me
who I am?</b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>The questions above should underpin all the activities
in our education system</b>. That so many young people leave education with these
questions unanswered ought to be of great concern and worse still leaves
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anti-social behaviour. The
outbreak of graffiti in our society is a sign of young people </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">making their
mark</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">as
a protest against the way many of them feel they have been treated by their
school experience. <b>For many students it is schools that are dysfunctional</b>.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>It is our belief that an education system premised on
the arts would</b> <b>ensure all students leave schooling with a positive learning
identity.</b></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>The current reactionary emphasis on literacy and
numeracy is </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>a distraction</b> <span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">literacy still <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remains a problem for far too many students
and, as maths educator <b>Jo Boaler </b>(who has recently presented in New Zealand)
has said, far too many students leave schooling suffering from </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">maths anxiety</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>It is time for a real change of direction </b></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">or for many
back to the future to the exciting days of <b>Dr Beeby</b> best represented in <b>Elwyn
Richardson</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">s
book </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">In
the Early World</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>’</b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">first
printed in the 1960s and thankfully recently reprinted by the NZCER. This
inspirational book gives today</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">s teachers insight into the power of personal
creativity through art, language, movement, drama and inquiry learning. Another
pioneer teacher <b>Sylvia Ashton Warner</b> wrote in </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Teacher</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">that students were like a volcano
with two vents </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">one
vent if tapped led to creativity, the other to</span><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 107%;"> violence.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo9e-M5EQYIFbh9MmfC6jkCrhLyA6qX0GZZMqrMB0bZ3odSmXZoSwOuxvaNyZ70loiOrDdQFRVeLZpameTd8q8ofH61waeBlVBSewRZOL3VgjFNljFlgk3fpzz7ZDfeiD6NcG/s1600/sir+ken+ryy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="282" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVo9e-M5EQYIFbh9MmfC6jkCrhLyA6qX0GZZMqrMB0bZ3odSmXZoSwOuxvaNyZ70loiOrDdQFRVeLZpameTd8q8ofH61waeBlVBSewRZOL3VgjFNljFlgk3fpzz7ZDfeiD6NcG/s200/sir+ken+ryy.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Today we have educationalists like Sir Ken Robinson
powerfully asking for schools to place creativity central to learning</b> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">creativity in
its widest interpretation. Sir Ken believes creativity is important as literacy
and numeracy but few schools follow his advice.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JgK4bGKL9m3F0gi8BFiRQPdD3K50Li0NWL6Kgwx2Wo77_CUwtchMPidBPh8caN6aTxGmlzQsZxsEu5eShXROs5GDrvrl9g9Atf6TPQkJPBYHbXUVfgsZysWgunnZWCVe7gvl/s1600/Art+I+am+Cover+front+cover+for+web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="998" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5JgK4bGKL9m3F0gi8BFiRQPdD3K50Li0NWL6Kgwx2Wo77_CUwtchMPidBPh8caN6aTxGmlzQsZxsEu5eShXROs5GDrvrl9g9Atf6TPQkJPBYHbXUVfgsZysWgunnZWCVe7gvl/s200/Art+I+am+Cover+front+cover+for+web.jpg" width="124" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Sadly, today the arts play a marginal role in our
schools and most to be seen is not about personal expression but more facile
decoration</b> and, as a result of a formulaic intentional approach to learning,
results in art work </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">well
done</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">but 'clone like' in appearance.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlzhNyPRxCRqoKrTg3xyWmN10TKhZAKpwz4Gq2gF_g1ADc2xfT69BwD6M1XDcjdVxNauP9czLHrernpJlFuZ9AT0gtNnW72bPvs_2dmiNLzeCiV685fCjYNaWovlEKiR-UPuuL/s1600/images+%252815%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="255" data-original-width="197" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlzhNyPRxCRqoKrTg3xyWmN10TKhZAKpwz4Gq2gF_g1ADc2xfT69BwD6M1XDcjdVxNauP9czLHrernpJlFuZ9AT0gtNnW72bPvs_2dmiNLzeCiV685fCjYNaWovlEKiR-UPuuL/s200/images+%252815%2529.jpg" width="154" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Eliot Eisner, an art educationalist, writes </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">the arts are
rooted in man</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">s
need to give form to his experience, to come to know the world in ways only the
arts can make possible</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">.
Learners experience their world through their senses and from such experience
curiosity is enlivened, questions asked, and realistic inquiries undertaken.
Such realistic studies are open to be solved in all the ways open to being
human </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">the
arts, media, words, maths, music and drama </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">integrated learning. </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>squeezed out the importance of experiential learning and related arts </b>and
this is not helped by the destructive use of ability grouping and inquiry
learning overly focused on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>learning
through the internet.<span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">No wonder many students, even the most </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">successful</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">, fail to
develop a positive view of themselves.</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>We see the metaphor for a classroom</b> (whether ILEs or
self-contained) <b>as </b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 107%;">mini Te
Papa</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>’</b><b> </b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">- a challenging mix of an
science/</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">technolo</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">gy
laboratory, a media centre , an arts and drama <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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studio, and an exhibition centre
<b>with students </b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">seeking,
using and creating their own knowledge</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’ </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b>as it states in the New Zealand Curriculum.</b> And
integral to this providing opportunities to integrate, in realistic contexts,
literacy and numeracy. <b>The arts </b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">help learners secure new and deeper meanings from
experience</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">… </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">with
students not only makers of their own reality but creators of their own minds</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>’ <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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(Eisner)</b>.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> This view of
learning aligns with the </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 107%;">multiple
intelligences</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">of
<b>Howard Gardner </b></span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">each
intelligence providing a frame of reference to interpret experience. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">T<b>he
teacher</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">s
role, as Jerome Bruner wisely says, is </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">the canny art of intellectual temptation</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>’</b> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">providing a
learning environment that captures student</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">s curiosity and, when students become involved,
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</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">personal
best</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">. <b>Eisner writes</b> 'teachers need to help without being hurtful
and to guide without being overbearing, and to explain without being pedantic'.
Most of all teachers give their students achievements the attention and respect
it deserves. Teaching in this respect is an art in itself </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">the highest
form of creativity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Elwyn Richardson </b>saw
his students as </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">a
community of artist and scientists exploring their environment and personal
worlds</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">,
and also said that </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">‘</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">his
students were as much his teacher as he was theirs.</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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formulaic assessment environment currently is to be seen </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">an environment
that is not helping students ( nor teachers) express who they are. Imagine an
education system premise on developing the gift and talents of all learners.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Looking back to the early days of NZ Creative
Education </span></b></span></div>
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mired in the present that we are unable to see beyond whatever is taking our
attention</b>. Teachers, trying to interpret what is currently expected of them,
are in such a position. All it causes is stress and confusion.<b> Having some sort
of insight into the past can put the present into perspective and better still
give ideas for future directions.’</b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">For those interested in Play Based Learning might be
interested in the forgotten genesis of progressive early education</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">'</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Since 'Tomorrows Schools'
(1986) teachers would be excused if they thought all ideas about teaching and
learning came from those distant from the classroom - and more recently imposed
by technocrats and politicians. This was not always the case.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><b> Play based learning was once a feature of junior classes.'</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">How Integrating Arts Into Other Subjects Makes Learning Come Alive</span></h1>
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as an important part of a well-rounded education -- but when it comes down to
setting budget priorities, the arts rarely rise to the top</b> despite the many
studies showing that exposure to the arts can help with academics too. <b>A few
schools are taking the research to heart, weaving the arts into everything they
do</b> and finding that the approach not only boosts academic achievement but also
promotes creativity, self-confidence and school pride.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">Reclaiming the joy of learning </span></b><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">– </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">the
philosophy of Elwyn Richardson</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>It seems proper when thinking
of creativity our classrooms to reflect on the writings of 1950s pioneer
creative teacher Elwyn Richardson.</b> His ideas are to be found in his
inspirational book </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the Early World</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’ </span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">first
published by the NZCER in 1964 <b>(reprinted 1994).</b>’</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 25.68px;">A World of Difference</span></b><b style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;"><span style="line-height: 25.68px;">’</span></b><b style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 25.68px;">: the philosophy of a Taranaki pioneer creative teacher - Bill Guild</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>I
believe that schools must be learning communities where </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>students learn, with
our assistance, the</b> <b>things they want to learn; when they want to learn them;
how they want to learn them; and why they want to learn them; all through their
own curiosity’</b></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Why is teaching kids to draw not a more important part
of the curriculum?</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Drawing plays a big role in
our cognitive development.</b> It can help us learn to write and think creatively,
develop hand-eye co-ordination, hone analytic skills, and conceptualise
ideas.But drawing is rarely used as a tool for learning in schools.<b> Generally,
most<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school teachers aren</b></span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t trained in
visual education.’</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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just an art</span></i></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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understanding that drawing is much more than an art form: it's a powerful tool
for learning.’</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;">Are technologies making us smarter? Wiser? More
compassionate?</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: DE;">By Jamie McKenzie</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">’</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>50 years ago and the potential
of computing to enhance learning was enormous but also virgin territory</b>. Since
then we have seen many foolish and wasteful efforts along with some that were
magical and quite beneficial. <b>Half a century later, it seems worthwhile to
pause and reflect upon the impact computers and computing have had upon
schools, learning, and the society as a whole.’</b></span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Elementary students have a
better chance of showing what they</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ve learned when they have a choice
about how to show it.’</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Learning Environments</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘If well-designed environments improve learning for
students, <b>what are the features of a </b></span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">well-designed</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">’ </span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>environment?
Research suggests that when the following elements are in place, student
learning is likely to accelerate.</b>’</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Education reform has led to the "death of the
teacher" new book argues.</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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what happened to me when I read this book, which stems from what appears to be
a global education movement against neoliberalism.<b> The Flip the System
organisation holds that the neoliberal shift in reform has </b></span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">led, in a
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-10058027517692560692019-05-11T16:04:00.000+12:002019-05-11T16:23:30.965+12:00Warning, these readings may contain educational heresy<br />
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and I have long left the ‘chalkface’ but <b>we still have a</b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> passion for an
education system that is based on democratic classrooms that focus on
developing the gifts and talents of all students.</b></span></span></div>
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most classrooms are neither democratic (valuing the identity, voice, questions,
theories and culture of students) nor focused on </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">talent development. If
anything<b> education has become standardised and formulaic focused on assessing
and documenting achievement in literacy and numeracy.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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maybe our views are irrelevant</b> but we take heart that we know</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"> there are still
creative teachers out their battling for views that align with the holistic,
creative and integrated learning that we hold.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHSRfoBn49dn372dJSdrODya6liYF5_Xc4RmooKtJqpRjmk8wCgIVKftAmuwyauGvlLQ1fiMLXGOH887gWa7KCe1bRiUXq3TV6CpP_ql5iJwA6xVNjcnyQ6wxuNBtak89DVVC/s1600/Elwyn+Richardson_cvr+-website_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="361" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisHSRfoBn49dn372dJSdrODya6liYF5_Xc4RmooKtJqpRjmk8wCgIVKftAmuwyauGvlLQ1fiMLXGOH887gWa7KCe1bRiUXq3TV6CpP_ql5iJwA6xVNjcnyQ6wxuNBtak89DVVC/s200/Elwyn+Richardson_cvr+-website_1.jpg" width="138" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">For us
we see the book <b>In</b> <b>the Early World</b> written by Elwyn </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Richardson as
central to the provision of a creative educatio</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">n</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Thankfully it has been
reprinted by the NZCER and <b>the new foreword itself is worth a read. Elwyn saw
his class as a community of artists and scientists exploring their environment
and personal concerns and he believed they were his teachers as much as he was
their teacher.</b></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> </b> </span><span style="color: #38761d;">There was nothing
formulaic or standardised in his classroom.</span></span></div>
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not sure of who current teachers hold as important in their educational
philosophies</b> <b>but we think we are in good company</b>. </span><b><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 107%;">John Dewey</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> who wrote about
progressive democratic education early last century wrote ‘children grow in to
tomorrow as they live today’ and although he believed in experiential learning
he also wrote that it’s not just experience it reflecting on experience that is
vital to learning. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are a number of other educationalists that back up our own beliefs</b>. </span><b><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 107%;">Jerome
Bruner</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">
who wrote that ‘teaching is the canny </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">art of intellectual temptation’ giving
teachers the challenge of creating learning environments that challenge
students by providing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘tempting’ displays
from all learning areas; displays that as students become involved sees<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b>We see classrooms as a mini Te Pap</b>a – an
amalgam of an artist’s studio, a science technology laboratory, a media centre
andexhibitions to celebrate, challenge and inform. <b>An important thing, we
believe, is to do fewer things well and judge success by students achieving
their personal best in any area of learning</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are aspects the vision that we hold to</b>. We believe, as <b>Frank </b></span></span><b style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Smith</b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> (our
reading guru)</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">writes, we learn from the company
we keep; we learn to read if we want to not just because someone thinks we
should. Smith’s book </span><br />
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teacher. Look online for this. Also check the link below for a pdf version of
another Smith book.</span></div>
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learn anything if we see the point - the tit</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;">l</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">e</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"> of </span><b style="color: #38761d;">Guy Claxton’s</b><span style="color: #38761d;"> book ‘What’s
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ideal classroom students ent</b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>er the classroom to pick up work they have previously committed to</b>. When teachers see a need to provide assistance with missing
skills they come alongside the learners (or work with a small groups) to
provide the help needed so students can return to’ the game of learning’ (the
advice of </span><b style="color: #38761d;">David Perkins</b><span style="color: #38761d;">). No need for ability groups in maths and
literacy to get in the way taking up valuable learnin</span><span style="color: #38761d;">g </span><span style="color: #38761d;">tim</span><span style="color: #38761d;">e</span><span style="color: #38761d;">.</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
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it comes to talent development the views of</b> </span><b><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 107%;">Sir Ken Robinson</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> are well known, admired
by many teachers but in practice largely ignored. <b>Sir Ken believes in
educational transformation</b>. The idea that we all have our own mix of talents
and gifts brings us to the multiple intelligences of <b>Howard Gardner. </b>Another
educator with an interest in the creative arts, </span><b><span lang="DE" style="line-height: 107%;">Eliot Eisner,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> makes the point that each
art form interprets the world in its own way and that all are important.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">All
this brings us back to the ideas of Elwyn Richards</span><span style="color: #38761d;">o</span><span style="color: #38761d;">n</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">and the art
advisers of yesteryear who led the way into<b> developmental creative related arts
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not have an achievement gap but rather an opportunity gap.</span></div>
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current discussions</b> about play based and place based lea</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;">rnin</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;">g</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;">,</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"> about students’ agency,
environmental awareness, the need to trust learners, the valuing of cultural
differences, inquiry learning integrating a sensible use of new technology, and
the new flexible learning environments,</span><span style="color: #38761d;">
</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>maybe the revolution is beginning</b>?</span></span></div>
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hope so. This is why we take the time to collect and share reading that
emphasize creative</b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> teaching</b>.</span></span></div>
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Teaching And Teaching Creativity: How To Foster Creativity In The Classroom</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lip service, but in reality, most schools are currently experiencing a “creativity
gap</b>”—with significantly more creative activity occurring outside of school.
Numerous psychologists argue that creativity is not just an enrichment or
add-on in the classroom: It is a set of psychological skills that enhance
learning and will be necessary in the 21st-century workforce<b>.’<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Regular reflection helps
students learn</b>, and some simple strategies can make it a regular and meaningful
routine.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Claudelands Event Centre
was buzzing on April 24th, with 520 motivated mathematics educators who were
eagerly awaiting Professor Jo Boaler and youcubed co-director Cathy Williams to
deliver their new workshop Limitless: <b>The 6 keys that unlock potential and
transform pathways.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Seven
is the age of wonder, not the age for formal testing</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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are the tests for</b>? So we can measure and monitor students’ progress? So we can
pigeon hole who they are and who they will become early on? So we can fiddle
the books and make our school brochure statistics look even glossier in the
competitive culture that is devouring our national education system?'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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formal education will pay attention to the education of the heart, teaching
love, compassion, justice, forgiveness, mindfulness, tolerance and peac</b>e. This
education is necessary, from kindergarten to secondary schools and
universities. I mean social, emotional and ethical learning. We need a
worldwide initiative for educating heart and mind in this modern age.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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recently, I'm aware it has a comprehensive music programme and understands <b>the
value of students learning not just the "basics" of numeracy and
literacy, but music and the other arts as well.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is a truly creative education?</span><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Links to New Zealand creative teachesr, early
influences<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the writings of John
Dewey, Sir Ken Robinson, John Holt, Guy Claxton,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>et al.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>“Slow
reading acquisition has cognitive, behavioral, and motivational consequences
that slow the development of other cognitive skill</b>s and inhibit performance on
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">longer this developmental sequence is allowed to
continue, the more generalized the deficits will become, seeping into more and
more areas of cognition and behavior.<b> Or . . . ‘reading affects everything you
do.’</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘A
mini-lesson and anchor chart for showing early elementary students
how to monitor their comprehension as they read</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘<b>This
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from the point of view of a cognitive psychologist. <b>In this book I attempt to
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and ‘learning”</b>, by drawing on insights from a number of specialized disciplines
while endeavoring to maintain a coherence that will be both comprehensible and
useful to practising or prospective teachers.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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reads: Frank Smith</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>"As
long as writing remains a natural and purposeful activity, made available
without threat, then children will be willing to practice it and consequently
will learn.</b>”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘<b>Freire
is critical of the transmission method found in schoo</b>ls, in which what he calls
the 'banking concept', is consistently applied. This is where teachers play the
role of the 'knowledgable', and students adopt the role of the 'ignorant'. <b>It's
a prevalent technique that teachers everywhere can fall into the trap of
perpetrating on their students</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-43809754817291763102019-05-03T17:04:00.001+12:002019-05-03T17:06:59.458+12:00Encouraging teacher collegiality and the importance of the creative arts.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;">Friday 3<sup>rd</sup> May 2019<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> </span><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The hubs – a return to
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>The recent publication of the Tomorrows Schools Review hasn’t seemed to
have hit the headlines and Allan and Bruce were wondering how schools have
reacted to it. </b> The main premise of </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">the
review was to develop greater equity in our school system for children who come
from disadvantaged homes. There is no doubt that schools from higher socio
economic areas have done well – their BOTs are able to call on all the
expertise they need. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Bruce attended a meeting to hear the views of the opposition (Nikki
Kaye).</b> Few local educators were present nor adults with school aged children.
<b>The main issue was focused on the idea of developing Education Hubs to provide
services to schoo</b>ls<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– it was felt by
those<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>opposed as an unnecessary layer of
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">‘bureaucracy’ that would take away the independence of schools. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">The idea of groups of schools under the support of a ‘</span><span lang="ES-TRAD">hub</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><b>’ relates back to the days before Tomorrows
Schools when primary schools were administered by Education Boards</b>. Bruce
worked as a school adviser for an education board and was a principal during
the change over to the self-managing system we have today. Allan moved to the principal
ranks in 2002, having taught and developed his skills in the education board
days. As the school </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">advisors had not been axed in 2002 he made full use of them
in developing his principal skills and the school’s learning programme. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Very few current principals or teachers experienced the education board
system and possibly can’t see the point of making any changes.</b> Few would not
say that the education board concept didn’t need to be ‘modernised’ and that
schools needed to be given greater ‘self-management’ but <b>in the change process
many good ‘babies were thrown out with the bathwater’</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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schools working together sharing expertise</b> through having the professional
support of school inspectors (reframed today as ERO) and the advisory services.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>The inspector’s role was to ensure all school were providing a suitable
education (now ERO’s responsibility</b>) and to grade and appoint teachers (now a
BOT responsibility). </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>In later years inspectors also took responsibility for
professional developmen</b>t, elected teachers to go on courses and created
curriculum groups in areas not covered by the advisory services – notably in
language and social studies to share ideas. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>They also gave advice for those
interested in principal position</b>s – and appointed them in association with the
education board. While Allan concedes that there were some useful aspects of
school inspectors, he was rather pleased to see them go.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>The loss of the localized advisory team, who visited all schools to
prove help and, equally importantly, identify and share the work of creative
classroom teachers, was the greatest loss</b>. There were advisers in art and
craft, science, Maori, music, physical </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">education, reading, rural schools and
junior schools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No doubt areas like ICT
could have been added as required. <b>The winding down of the advisory service was
arguably the greatest loss of the move to ‘self governing schools.’</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">It is the provision, in some form, of such advisory service the ‘</span><span lang="ES-TRAD">hubs</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><b>’ would provide that is most exciting and,
we think,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would return schools to a
collaborative and sharing educational environment</b>. An advisory service would
also provide exciting career opportunities for teachers. <b>We both believe that
creative </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>classroom teachers ought to be the source of real innovation.</b> And, we
both believe, it will ensure localised curriculum and diversity and not the
conformity the critic suggest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>Not all schools might require financial and building assistance etc.,
but all schools would benefit from supportive advisory services?</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>The Review, we believe</b>, <b>is</b> not about imposing control over schools as
critics suggest, but <b>all about cooperation and creativity - a move away from
standardisation and compliance of the past decades.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Sadly Kelvin Smythe died shortly before the report was released, so we
will never know what he thought.</b> However he had some main hopes when the review
was established: no more National Standards, a return to the ‘holistic
curriculum’ of the pre Tomorrow’s School era, the replacement of ERO in its
present form, reducing the role of Boards of Trustees, and the re-establishment
of the advisory service. Given that, <b>we think he would have given his general
approval to the review.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>More and more people are writing about the importance of art and
creativity as technology take over our lives</b>. <b>Time to make
personal discovery and creativity central to our curriculums - </b>t<b>hrough the arts
humans creates themselves.</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">National Poetry Day? Week? Month? Year?</span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Most people will know about Michael Rosen who wrote ‘We are going on a
bear hunt’</b>. <b>He provides ideas to introduce poetry to your class</b>. If you're a
teacher reading this, Rosen suggests that you think up as many different ways
of 'serving up' poems as you can.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Why an education in visual arts is the key to arming students for the
future</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Visual skills are essential for a sophisticated workforce, yet we offer
so little education in the vital skills of learning to see</b> and developing the
ability to interpret and critique our image-saturated world.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘<b>Elliot Eisner was a visionary in the field of arts and education</b>. He
maintained that the arts were critical to developing skills in young students.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>We are all born with fathomless capacities, but what we make of them
has everything to do with education. One role of education is to help people
develop their natural talents and abilities</b>; the other is to help them make
their way in the world around them. Too often, education falls short on both
counts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We have the resources and the
expertise, but now we need the vision and commitment.’<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Play-based learning: producing critical, creative and innovative
thinkers</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘Go inside any primary school classroom and look for the ‘play’. Where
is it? When did we become so serious with our students and forget to include
play? </b>It was only 15 years ago that we could go into any Year 1 classroom and
find children playing with play-dough and creating the most </span></i></div>
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<i>spectacular
creatures, painting a masterpiece or gluing together toilet rolls to make a
spaceship. They were engaging with each other, negotiating, sorting out
arguments and establishing friendships. They were imagining, exploring and
inventing. <b>It was through taking risks, discovering new ideas and putting these
ideas into action that learning took place. Now it seems such acts of play are
a thing of the past.</b>’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘How a pedagogy of play can enliven the classroom, for students of all
ages.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Australian School</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>It’s the start of the school year here in Australia, and most schools
schedule one or two days of professional learning f</b>or all faculty before
students return. <b>Princes Hill runs an inquiry-based </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>program for students 5 to
12 years old.</b> Both days of the retreat were focused on the school’s Principles
of Learning, and the implications they had for the school’s programs for the
next twelve months. The agenda simply said “2018 Princes Hill Primary School
Collective Inquiry: A Community of Learners Developing an Evolving Community of
Practice.” Everyone certainly knew what to expect.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<b>it's easy to get confused by the many education buzzwords floating about. But
at their heart these pedagogies are all student-cantered </b>and there are
commonalities across them that are the key to their success and far more
critical than keeping the jargon straight.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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system that ‘utterly fails to support it.’ What’s wrong and how to fix it.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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still trying to figure out exactly what great teaching looks like</b>. In recent
years, the teaching profession has been under assault by those who have sought
to deprofessionalize it.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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this newspaper. I sketch the view while hanging on the phone. We draw on our
hands, on walls, on the back of envelopes (like Monet), on office notepaper
(like Van Gogh), on restaurant napkins (like Picasso and Warhol). We draw to
pass the time, to catch the moment, to remind ourselves what we saw, felt or
thought. We draw to see what life looks like in two dimensions<b>. We draw because
we can.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Three of Bruce’s ‘</span></b><b><span lang="DE">oldies</span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">’ about the creative arts</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The authors write that we need to look to the creative work going on in
real classrooms, particularly in the writings of New Zealand’s pioneer creative
teachers, rather than importing </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>failed overseas programmes such as National
Standards and Charter Schools</b>. The authors write that ‘we know that<b> students’ learn
best when engaged, challenged and inspire</b>d. We know that many important skills
in <b>numeracy and literacy are learned in various contexts</b> and not in relation to
set targets. We also know that i<b>ntegrated and negotiated curriculum provides
students with ways to achieve ownership of their learning.</b> <b>Children have an
innate curiosity about the world around them, and learning invariably follows
when their curiosity is piqued.’</b><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>The other day I had the opportunity to visit a school I began my career
visiting in 1960</b>. During a discussion with the principal she mentioned the
classrooms had been developed into innovative (or flexible) learning
environments. <b>I couldn't help suggest that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I bet the daily classroom </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>programmes/timetables haven't changed much
since I first visited the school 40 plus years ago</b> ( with exception of
availability of information technology). <b>If anything the current emphasis on
literacy and numeracy had reinforced the timetables of earlier times</b> taking up
the morning time with the rest of<b> the Learning Areas squeezed into the
afternoon period. Hardly flexible teaching? Hardly progress?’</b><o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>A while ago Bruce was asked to give a talk to teacher, </b></span><b>parents</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;"> and students at a students art opening - it forced him to think about the importance of the creative </b><b>arts</b><b style="font-size: 12pt;">.</b></span></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-13848081838901793782019-04-19T12:50:00.002+12:002019-04-19T23:24:53.775+12:00Jo Boaler and math education and inquiry learning<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">developing
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Holidays are a
time to catch your breath and to think about how to make teaching better for
both teachers and students</b>. Allan and I are no longer involved in teaching but
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">from teacher friends, and reading comments on Facebook, to know
that all is not well.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>We both caught
an interview on Q&A with Jo Boaler</b> (Professor of Mathematics at Stanford
University) someone both of us have long admired. <b>To us, her short interview
about maths teaching holds an answer to educations problem in particular with
maths</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Maths has always
been a difficult area.</b> Many teacher are </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">themselves not that confident and are
easily convinced to take on board any number of math schemes but sadly our
position on International Tables has steadily fallen. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It</span>’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s thus worth listening to what
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Boaler says that
current approaches leave far too many</b><b> </b>
<b>students with </b></span><b>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">maths
anxiety</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and this, in
particular, applies t</span></b></span><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">o gi</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">r</span></span></b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>ls</b>.</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> H</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>er video was about ensuring students develop positive <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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attitudes towards maths</b> </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">–
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">or any learning area.<b> For too
long schools have focussed on achievement</b> and one dimensional programmes and
this has resulted in an obsessive and exhausting assessment and documentation
regime. <b>What has been missing is not paying enough attention to student
attitudes towards maths.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When qu</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">stione</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>ed
about the success of Asian students Boaler made some important points</b>. <b>The key
point underpinning Asian success is the belief by parents, teachers and
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">that all everyone can do maths</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> (or any area of learning). In Western
cultures, Boaler says, ability is seen as important </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;">– </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">some people are just better at maths </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">and girls not so much! Western teachers also use ability grouping
while in Asian classes (as observed by Boaler) <b>children are taught as a class
in discussion groups and only cover a few problems a lesson </b></span><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">they do fewer things well. As a
result positive attitudes are developed.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Bruce reflected
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>determined not to use text books,
work sheets, or ability grouping – </b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>all common practice at the time.</b> <b>He made every attempt to make maths
both enjoyable and challenging</b> studying with his class maths patterns,
triangular numbers, measuring, counting, tessellation,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>history of number, number in other cultures,
keeping rainfall data, transects in science, magic numbers,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>math cooking, maths and art </span>……<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.. The classroom <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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of maths activities. And maths was related, where possible, to whatever study
area the class was involved in.<b> Bruce wanted his class to appreciate what maths
was really all about and for all to have positive attitudes towards the
subject.</b></span></span><br />
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didn</span>’</b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>t work out so
well</b>. When his students went on to Intermediate school a couple of boys came
back to tell him <b>the teacher at the intermediate had said all the kids from his
class couldn</b></span><b>’</b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>t do math!</b>
Bruce asked if the boys were in ability groups. They said they were </span>– <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and in the top group!! He then asked
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">the boys how come this was the case if students couldn’<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t do maths? The boys were confused and the next
day they returned with the answer<b> </b></span><b>‘</b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>the teacher said none of the students could use a text book!’</b> One of the
boys was a member of the recent tax review group!!</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The next year he
introduced textbooks in the last months to avoid the issue but <b>his students
were given the message that </b></span><b>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">real</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">maths is
doing maths and text book are to be seen only as </span>‘<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">practice</span>’ <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">maths.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Bruce </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and Allan both wish they knew about
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Teaching
students learn and love maths</span></span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Jo Boaler
makes two main points </span>– </b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>maths can be a fun activity for all students but to achieve this needs
the removal of an approach based on ability grouping.</b></span> </i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The one in five currently failing in
our schools, (notwithstanding the effects of poverty) see themselves as
<b>failures, as defined by numeracy and literacy, and the premise of this book
that </b></span><b> </b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>this
is, in good part, to the result of the use of ability grouping</b>. Jo Boaler</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s book reports on the depressing
research to back her position on ability grouping.’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>Links to
excellent resources</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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writes, </span>‘</b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>far too
many students hate math</b>s. As a result adults all over the world fear maths and
avoid it at all costs</span>…</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. It</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s
the subject that can make them feel both helpless and stupid</span>…</i><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">.Maths more than any subject has the
power to crush children</span>’</b></i><i><b><span lang="PT" style="mso-ansi-language: PT;">s confidence.</span>’</b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>To develop
developing maths understanding and an appreciation of the power of maths
through teaching maths through activities and investigations preferably
integrated with the classes current inquiry study(ies)</b>.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Stanford
professor Jo Boaler writes in The Atlantic about the neurological benefits of
using fingers and how it can contribute to advanced thinking in higher math.’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Think you</span>’</b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">re bad at math? You may suffer from </span>‘</b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">math</span> </b></span><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ansi-language: DE;">trauma</span>’</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Teachers may
like to reflect on this when carrying out those pointless timed Numeracy
assessmen</span>st.</b><br />
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with computation debilitates learners</b>. People who struggle to complete a timed
test of math facts often experience fear, which shuts down their working
memory. This makes it all but impossible to think which reinforces the idea
that a person just can</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">t do math </span>– </i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">that they are not a math person.’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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forgotten about fun for fun's sake'</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>‘We make a
mistake trying to inject fun into lessons - we should simply aim to make
schools more fun in general.’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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literacy: How six schools lifted achievement?</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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schools support students to make progress in reading and writing?</b> To explore
this question, the project identified schools that have sustained positive achievement
in literacy over five years, and asked what they did to achieve this. The goal
was to uncover common themes which might help other schools work towards
similar lifts in literacy achievement <b>and no mention of phonics!!!!</b>’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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focused education at Taranaki high school takes flight</span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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biggest school in Taranaki, Spotswood's</b> roll has been in slow decline for two
decades as it struggled to remain an attractive option against the city's four
single-sex high schools. More liberal and less bound by tradition than those
high schools,<b> it is undergoing a radical transformation that could completely
change the way the school is viewed both from within and without.</b> It is one of
just six schools in New Zealand using the progressive Disrupted programme.’</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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of science is the wonderment of inquiry</b>. Encouraging this inquiry is how you
bring science into the classroom, transforming your kids into budding
scientists who want to discover the why</span>’</i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s hiding behind everyday phenomena. Luckily,
there are ways to turn your classroom into a laboratory of discovery without
fire and explosions!<b> Here are our favourite ways to boost science in the
classroom.’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>In our quest as
educators to prepare our kids to enter the world to thrive and succeed, we
constantly strive to empower them with the best aptitudes for doing so in a
rapidly-changing world</b>. These are the abilities of independent and critical
thinking, creativity, curiosity, and the drive to learn anywhere at anytime.<b>
Ultimately, few instructional methods accomplish this quite like inquiry-based
learning</b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘<b>It</b></span><b>’</b></i><i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">s too late for evolution. It</span>’</b></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><b>s time for disruption!'</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">‘Maria
Montessori is a controversial figure in education. She is considered by many to
be a true visionary, while others consider her methods to be detrimental. <b>She
was highly critical of formalised education systems and believed they actually
obstructed children's potential to learn</b>. She saw transmission methods of
teaching as a great travesty, and <b>worked incessantly to create alternative
methods of education that were more child centred and which led to greater
levels of engagement with learning.’</b></span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-58728437394669523972019-04-12T14:10:00.001+12:002019-04-12T14:18:15.749+12:00What is a creative education? - Elwyn Richardson, Sir Ken , Guy Claxton, John Holt<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Bruce
and I spend time each week gathering articles that encourage a creative
approach to education. This of course
begs the question what makes a classroom creative</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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has been involved in encouraging creative approaches to education for decades.
First as a </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">science adviser, as a teacher, an art adviser, principal and an
independent education adviser. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">At
the beginning of this year Bruce was asked to give a session at the school he
was once principal of at their TOD to share the main ideas arising from his
experience over the decades</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Perhaps
the main idea Bruce mentioned was to develop your classroom, or school, as a
community of learners</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Bruce drew the attention of the staff to
the philosophy of Elwyn Richardson who saw his classroom as a community of
artists and scientists exploring their immediate environment and personal
experiences</span></b>. To us both Elwyn’s book In the Early World (recently
republished by the NZCER) is still the best example of creative teaching. <b><span style="color: #38761d;">All
schools and teachers should have a copy</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">As
a Science Adviser (and even earlier as a Nature Study Specialist) Bruce said
that exploring the natural world is as important as ever</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span>and, as part of this, it
is important to help students learn through sensory awareness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such awareness and appreciation provides
motivation for expression </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">through a range of media but will contribute for
students to protect and value the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">In the mid 80s Bruce was involved in the Waikato School of Education’s
Learning in Science Project (LISP). Essentially this was based on finding out
what students know and then to challenge their understandings ; to value their
question<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and current theories and to
note how their view had changed (or not) due to learning experiences</span>.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> Contrary to current views
knowledge is as important as the learning process. Classrooms should reflect
the before and after views of students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">As
an art adviser Bruce focussed on helping students express ideas through art and
valued the idiosyncratic expression of every learner</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Much of what many teachers today call
creativity is craft at best and decoration at worst – and, all too often,
little can be seen to differentiate each learners efforts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Bruce’s
teaching experience followed a long career giving advice. The main message he
learnt was that giving advice and doing it are two different things</span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having to cover the whole curriculum was a
real challenge and took him time to come to terms with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bruce made the point </span></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">that take advice with
care – many who provide advice have had little practical experience of what
they talk about</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">So
these were the points Bruce shared which align with my own views. We both
believe that in an education that focuses on accepting learners for what they
can do and building on their strengths – to develop their unique passions and
talents.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>We both believe that all students will
learn if it makes sense to them</b></span>, if they can see the point of what they are
doing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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both believe that the teacher’s role is to create classrooms as communities of
learners full of challenging experiences to attract student’</span></b><b><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="line-height: 107%;">s
curiosity</span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;">.
As Jerome Bruner has written ‘teaching is the canny art of intellectual
temptation’. If we see our classrooms as a subtle mix of an artist’s studio (
in including all media), a scientist’s laboratory, a work room and an art
gallery then<span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">students will learn to do, in meaningful contests, the very
things teachers currently spend far too much time on</span> </b>– literacy and numeracy.
Too much valuable teacher time and energy is wasted on assessment and
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are born to learn. We mustn’t let schools get in their way. If in doubt read
Elwyn Richardson’s book and also watch the two videos about his work at Oruaiti
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the joy of learning : In the Early World ( NZCER</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 107%;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘Oruaiti
School functioned as a community of artists and scientists who turned a frank
and searching gaze on all that came within their gambit</b>. Curiosity and
emotional force led them to explore the natural world and the world of their
feelings…..Studies and activities grew out of what preceded them. New
techniques were discovered and skills practiced as each achievement set new
standards’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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a movie, filmed by Elwyn Richardson in 1961, with his added commentary, that
shows some of the amazing art work produced by his pupils.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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on, here’s another video that looks at Elwyn Richardson’s wor</b>k and which
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Guild was a key figure of a group of Taranaki teachers that had gained
reputation for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>creative programmes
they were implementing.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill - who by
the way turns 93 this year and is as enthusiastic about creativity as he ever
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progressive ideas Bruce and I hold relate to the writings of John Dewey. So
many of the ideas talked about today have their genesis in the writings of
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dewey
placed a premium on student meaningful activity in learning and participation
in classroom democracy. His belief that students must be ‘invested’ in what
they are learning echoing calls today for school to present ‘rich, real and
relevant learning’ to combat growing student disengagement.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Claxton’s book ‘What’s the Point of School’</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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timely examination of why our schools are built to fail, and how to redesign them
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>modern world.'</b> The challenge of redesigning schools is
a big ask but the book gives lots of very practical advice about how to create
enthusiastic learners and more effective teaching. In particular the 'learning
power' ideas gives guidance to how New Zealand teachers can implement the 'key
competencies' of the new curriculum.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Rereading Holt’s "How Children Learn" Here, summed up, are John Holt’s
great insights about children’s learning.</b>'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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content creators</b>, not memorisers As the New Zealand Curriculum says students
need to<b> ‘seek, use and create their own knowledge</b>’.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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words to exchanging ideas is a big shift that doesn’t happen just because there
is a question and answer exchange</b>. There is a certain trust inherent in any
meaningful communication.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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list of these “<b>things that we don’t really want to talk about in educatio</b>n” in
hopes that it might challenge us to bring those elephants out into the open and
ignite some much needed conversation about how to deal with them. <b>Here are nine
of them.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Artistry of Teaching</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>‘There
is one goal [of education] that, if not achieved, makes the achievement of all
other goals very unlikely. That goal is to create those conditions that make
students want to learn; not have to learn but want to learn more about self,
others, and the world</b>. The overarching purpose of schooling and its governance
is to support that goal, i.e., to create and sustain contexts of productive
learning supportive of the natural curiosity and wonder with which children
start schooling.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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year, I ask my pedagogy students about their most memorable learning experience
as a student. Inevitably, it involves a creative project.</b> These were the
moments when learning stuck and often it was when they fell in love with the
subject. But these were also the experiences that taught them collaboration,
project management, flexible thinking, and a growth mindset.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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he originally practised as a psychotherapist, Carl Rogers was intensely
interested in education. His 1969 publication Freedom to Learn is now
considered a classic of education. It was certainly required reading during my
own teacher training. Rogers' approach to both psychotherapy and education was
humanistic and thus person-centred. <b>His view on learning was that children
needed to be fully engaged rather than passive in the classroom.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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master because a person has to use all of the other cognitive skills in the
creative process</b>. Since, according to Bloom, creating is the highest </span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">order of
thinking, <b>it should be in the forefront of all learning environments and an end
goa</b>l. When students create what they imagine, they’re in the driver’s seat.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘Robinson
believes education is “to enable students to understand the world around them,
and the talents within them, so that they can become fulfilled individuals and
active, compassionate citizens.” He doesn’t deny that learning information
about the world is important, but he says it’s equally <b>important for students
to understand their own talents, motivations and passions if they are going to
lead lives that satisfy them. The current system of conformity and compliance
leaves no space for this type of self-exploration.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We’ve always believed that the real experts in
education are those that actually do i</b>t. Obviously such teachers gain support
from those distant from the classroom but if it doesn’t happen in the </span></span></div>
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it doesn’t happen. And I also believe the further experts are away from the
classroom the easier it is to give advice.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>A long time ago, before the introduction of
self-managing schools, there were plenty of opportunities for schools to
collaborate</b>. Teachers were chosen to attend and contribute to national and
local in-service courses.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>Today the focus in on our <u>school </u>not our <u>schools</u></b><u>.</u> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;">In the last year or so an attempt was made to introduce a community of schools
approach but all too often this was simply a means to introduce Ministry
dictates such as National Standards. It </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">was, at least, a start to move to more
collaborative environment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US"><b>The Tomorrow’s School Review has at its core the
idea of hubs</b> which would introduce the idea of <b>our schools</b> rather than
our school. Time will tell if this eventuates but<b> one idea regional principals
groups could do is to identify teachers with recognised, expertise in local sc</b></span><b>hools and to share this expertise by means of a website with all schools in
the area</b>. There may be schools with beginning teachers coping well that other
beginning </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">teachers could visit; there might be teachers with expertise in the
creative arts, technology, physical education, mathematics science, inquiry
learning, integrated studies, and play based approaches to learning etc.</span><br />
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principals/teachers to act as an organising committee and a need also to employ
a person with </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">website development skills.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US">Something along these lines would not only
enable the shar</span>ing of ideas between schools but also to return teachers
expertise central to educational development.</span></b></div>
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against the ideas included in the Tomorrows School Review.</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘The independent taskforce report on Tomorrow’s
Schools recommends big changes to school governance, and<b> a lot of principals
are up in arms. Auckland high school principal Claire Amos explains why she’s
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>An
invitation to the art of observation</b>: Together, we became investigators of the
ordinary, considering the block — the street and everything on it—as a living
being that could be observed.In this way, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, and
the old the new.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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takes innate talent</b>, but this kind of thinking stems from our misclassification
of drawing as, primarily, an art form rather than a tool for
learning.Researchers, teachers, and artists are starting to see how drawing can
positively impact a wide variety of skills and disciplines.<b>Drawing is not an
innate gift; rather, it can be taught and developed. Doing so helps people to
perceive the world more accurately, remember facts better, and understand their
world from a new perspective.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">They
say there's no such thing as a stupid question, but <b>I beg to differ.</b> We hear
stupid questions almost every time adults and young children are together.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Debate,
drama and other extracurriculars provide the excitement many classrooms lack.
And they can help overhaul the system.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">Today,
most people look up information they don’t know on the internet, including
students. So it’s even more <b>important that students have tools they can use to
make educated decisions about what they trust online.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>One of
the key components of engagement is students’ excitement about what they learn.
Yet most schools extinguish that excitement.'</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Learner
agency is about having the power, combined with choices, to take meaningful
action and see the results of your decisions.</b> It can be thought of as a
catalyst for change or transformation. Within a school context,<b> Learner Agency
is about shifting the ownership of learning from teachers to students, </b>enabling
students to have the understanding, ability, and opportunity to be part of the
learning design and to take action to intervene in the learning process, to
affect outcomes and become powerful lifelong learners.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">“<b>…all our problems tend to gather under two
questions about knowledge: Having the ability and desire to know, how and what
should we learn? </b>And, having learned, how and for what should we use what we
know?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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at play when girls are excluded from mathematics?</span></span></b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Jo Boaler:</span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘In a recent survey National Numeracy asked a
sample of adults </span></i></div>
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<i>how they felt about maths. This showed that <b>more than twice
the proportion of women (30%) than men (14%) said that maths made them feel
uneasy</b>. Why might this serious gender disparity exist – even in the 21st
century?'<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>Holt was best known for his progressive
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<i>school systems. I
have drawn three quotes from his 1983 classic How Children Learn (first
published in 1964) and have added some additional commentary.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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if students come to school as blank slates ( tabula rosa) when instead they
come with a wealth of ideas to share but to do their ideas need to be valued.’</span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Drawing
is an ideal way to break through habitual ways of thinking.</b> All too often our students
see but they do not look. Observational drawing has long been an important
means for some teachers to develop deeper consciousness in students - to assist
students see through their habitual ways of seeing and to develop new
awareness.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-81075533544617218872019-03-29T14:51:00.001+13:002019-03-29T15:33:35.518+13:00Teachers - your future is at stake. Please read and add your voices to the debate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Y</span><span lang="FR" style="line-height: 107%;">our </span></b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>future is at stake!</b></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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April is the last day to make your views
known about the proposals included in the Tomorrow’s Schools Review report ‘Our Schooling Future: Stronger Together’</b>.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>The report
outlines the possibility of the biggest change in our education system since
the introduction of the original Tomorrow’s Schools over three decades ago</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Tomorrow’ Schools primary schools were administered by regional Education
Boards</b>. These Boards appointed teachers, provided advisory help and looked
after school finance and grounds. Alongside the Boards were Education
Department Inspectors who assessed teacher and school performance.<b> There was no
doubt that these Boards needed revision but, in the change to self-managing
schools, a ‘few babies were thrown out with the bathwater’</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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those involved in Tomorrow’s Schools they were exciting times</b>. BOTs members had
to be appointed and were soon involved in preparing Charters and writing
endless policies and facing up to </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">building and grounds issues. Sadly not all
schools were equal and some found it difficulty gaining expertise from BOT
members.</span></span></div>
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important to note that the changes were not a response of community
dissatisfaction</b>, far f</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">rom</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> it, but were part of a political shift towards a
market forces led society based on a belief in business efficiency being
applied to all areas of government would have positive results. </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>After three
decades we </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>are now paying the price</b></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> and the inequality resulting from the
changes sees schools now enrol students disadvantaged by this inequality. It is
also true to say many citizens gained in wealth and some schools (mainly it
seems large secondary schools) in high socio economic areas thrived – and
today, understandably through self-interest, are resisting any changes.</span></div>
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aspect of schooling was also lost to a degree when the National government
introduced the New Zealand Curriculum </b>along with a set of Learning Area
documents, each of which outlined strands, level of achievement </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">and an
impossible number of learning objectives to be assessed and reported on. <b>In
2007 a Labour government saw the light of day and introduced (in 2007) a
totally revised New Zealand Curriculum</b> which had (has) broad acceptance. Sadly
before this could be ‘bedded in’ a new National government introduced their
reactionary National Standards along with assessment and documentation demands
enforced by ERO.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that brings us to today. A new government and no National Standards and the
Review.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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read the Review document and the voices below speaking out for and against</b>.
Make an email submission of your concerns and view to </span><span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="mailto:tomorrows.schools@education.govt.nz">tomorrows.schools@education.govt.nz</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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information about the Review is available</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Tomorrow's
Schools quick submission guide from the NZEI and their response to the Review.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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currently reviewing Tomorrow’s Schools – the name given to the reforms that
dramatically changed our schools nearly 30 years ago - and the <b>NZEI wants to make
it easy for you to have your say about the future of education.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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of schools across the country have launched a coordinated opposition to the
Tomorrow’s Schools proposed changes, but the campaign is full of
misinformation.</b>On Tuesday, a group of 49 (and growing) primary and high schools
officially launched the Community Schools Alliance.The alliance took out
full-page ads in the NZ Herald and Dominion Post, as well as sending out a
press release, setting up a website, a Twitter account and a Facebook page.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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the Tomorrow’s Schools Review in which she faces up to the criticism of the
Auckland Alliance of large secondary schools against the proposals</b>. Claire is
concerned with every school, not just those that have done well under the
current system.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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vs Equity: A Personal Response to Tomorrows' Schools Review</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been quite
surprised to see the response from some to “Say no to the Haque Plan”. First of
all, it is not the Haque Plan, rather it is the Tomorrow’s Schools Review
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referred to as such.Secondly, it contains many
recommendations falling under 8 key issues, making it very difficult to give the
whole report a blanket ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.<b> Anyone with an open-minded approach would
find favour with some of the recommendations, would be unsure about some and
would want to explore further, and would be quite opposed to other</b>s. A
consultation process allows such a range of responses to be submitted and
considered.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Taskforce to introduce Education Hubs</b>, a regional structure that will
take over some of the jobs done by principals and boards of trustees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Here's why I think Hubs are a sensible and
overdue change to the way we run our school system.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The "Community
Schools Alliance", backed by 43 of the country's 2431 state and integrated
schools, opposes a scheme </b>by a task force led by former principal Bali Haque
for about 20 regional "hubs" to take over most powers from elected
school boards.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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occurred in the 30 years of school choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, ‘exclusive’ schools became larger and larger, milking their
social cachet as the top schools in the country</b> for financial and reputational
gain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That such status was so patently
unearned, forged from the social and educational characteristics of their
privileged, ready-to-learn, white students and large parental donations, was a
source of particular angst for me S</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">econd, schools at the ‘top’ and ‘</span></i><i><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">bottom</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">’ of the social spectrum faced increasing social separation.’</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>In 1986 an ‘earthquake ‘hit
education in the form of ‘Tomorrows Schools</b>’; following the publication of the
Picot Report self-managing schools were born. Now, almost three decades later,
A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NZCER<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>chief researcher <b>Cathy Wylie has written a definitive and compelling
story of school self-management called ’Vital Connections: Why We Need More
Than Self-managing Schools’.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">His subsequent book, What
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">describes the best of what he saw—and
<b>highlights his fervent belief in the value of teacher expertise, student
agency, and locally derived solutions. </b>Taken as a whole, the book is a rallying
cry for an overhaul of the American educational system.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s a week from the tragedy of Christchurch. So much has
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">been said but <b>what is that schools can do to develop greater cultural
awareness, understanding and respect</b>?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a wakeup call to move away from the technocratic
approach of the past decades towards <b>a focus on developing a more humanitarian
appreciation of the different cultures that are part of our New Zealand society</b>
– ‘cultural literacy’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is obvious
that racism, prejudice, and intolerance underlies many of the problems we face
in New Zealand and this has been amplified by the inequality created by three
decades of a neo-liberal politics with its emphasis on ‘me first’ individual
rights over community obligations. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The New Zealand Curriculum is light in respect to this area</b>
particularly in the second half where the curriculum </span></span><br />
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for the various levels. All that is provided is a list of bullet points. All
other learning areas provide greater definition.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Is it time to return to the older term Social Studies</b> – the
term used prior to Tomorrows Schools?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This older syllabus provided broad directions of cultures past and
present for students to study leaving plenty of room for teacher choice.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>One practical recommendation is for principals and teachers
to read the publications and writings of the late Kelvin Smythe and reintroduce
his ‘feelings for’ </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>approach to respect and value other cultures past and
present</b>. Kelvin wrote powerfully about the need to appreciate the attitudinal
aspects of education in contrast to the current one dimensional achievement
bias.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The following links will download<b> eight articles on ‘feelings
for’ Social Studies</b> that Kelvin reworked for his legacy publication:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"> </span> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">The File</span></i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://networkonnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/attack-33-the-e28098feeling-for_-approach-to-social-studies-it-can-be-transformative-part-1.pdf"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The ‘feeling for’ approach to social studies:
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it can be transformative Part 3</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://networkonnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/attack-36-some-examples-of-activities-for-a-e28098feeling-for_-social-studies-unit-part-1.pdf"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Some examples of activities for a ‘feeling
for’ social studies unit emphasising the early and middle stages Part 1</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for’ social studies unit emphasising the early and middle stages Part 2</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://networkonnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/attack-58-social-studies-in-the-classroom-the-feeling-for-approach-part-1.pdf"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Faire pioneers a trialling of the ‘feeling
for’ approach (1984): an insightful narrative Part 1</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://networkonnet.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/attack-59-social-studies-in-the-classroom-the-feeling-for-approach-part-2.pdf"><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mary Faire pioneers a trialling of the ‘feeling
for’ approach (1984): an insightful narrative Part 2</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for’ approach (1984): an insightful narrative Part 3</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you want to explore more of Kelvin’s writings, check out
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</span>Hammonds</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and Allan
Alach</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Opinion Piece: Tomorrow's School
Review - little to lose and much to gain</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘The only real concern is we are not
brave enough nor selfless enough to support changes that might benefit our
entire educational system for fear of relinquishing <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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perceived notions of
control.</b> Of course no report is perfect, and with 32 recommendations to
consider the devil will be in the detail and the proof will be in the pudding.
There is always the risk of unintended consequences (as there was with the
Picot Report in 1988) and there is the very real risk of some of the richness
of these recommendations being lost in implementation and any plans being so
slow to roll out that little, if any, gain is seen or felt for years to come.
<b>But on reflection, even when we consider all of these factors, the Tomorrow’s
School Report creates a vision for tomorrow where there is little to lose and
much to gain’ </b></span></i><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Claire Amos</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Tomorrow's School Review - A Quiet
Optimism - Part One</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is the first post in a series, and seeks to look at
some of the things that concern me with the TSR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The things that give me cause for concern.<b>
Going forward, I am cautiously optimistic</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whilst I have concerns, I am heartened by the Minister who informed
leaders at <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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the NZPF Moot that he was genuine in wanting to work in
collaboration with the sector.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>There is
an opportunity here to be innovative and futures focused, and most importantly,
better equipped to resource schools and ensure there is equity in the system! </b>I
think there is potential here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the
sector is fully engaged, and collaborative co constructors in the architecture
of this <b>re imagined new educational landscape</b>,<b> then we have the opportunity to
create something quite amazing.</b> T<b>o do this, we need to leave our mistrust, our
cynicisms and our hurts from the dark days of educational persecution, behind
us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot let the bad experiences of
our yesterday colour us into a foul mood for today and the educational future
of tomorrow.’</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Strong panel drives debate on Tomorrow’s
Schools Review</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Education Central ChalkTalks panel discussion on the
Tomorrow’s Schools Review last night was one of the most <b>robust debates</b> on the
proposed reforms to date. <b>The debate darted across various aspects of the
report, but most attention was given to the issues at the heart of the review:
essentially tackling the inequality in our education system.</b>’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to Develop a Greater Sense of
Motivation in Students</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Teachers can know their content backwards and forwards.
They might have put </b></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>hours into their lesson plans. But if their students aren't
motivated, learning won't happen.</b> Often, childhood experiences may make
motivation harder for students, according to a new working paper . The paper
takes a look at the machinery of motivation: what’s going on in children’s
brai<b>ns when they’re motivated, and what’s holding them back?</b> The researchers
<b>identify two types of motivation: approach motivation</b>, which steers us toward a
reward,<b> and avoidance motivation</b>, which prompts us to avoid damage. Ideally,
they balance each other out.’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Absurd Structure of High School</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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re-evaluated for 21st-century capabilities and capacities</b>.’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">How Algebra Ruins Lives</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘Raise your hand if your child feels tyrannized
by abstract math. Raise your hand if you think our society would be better
served if we spent more time learning skills that solve real-life problems </b>— like
finance, budgeting, and the ultimate life-skill: How not to be an asshole.’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">#3quotes from Papert</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Steve Wheeler:</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘MIT professor Seymour Papert wanted
to turn education on its head</b>. He was disillusioned with the idea that we
should 'instruct' children and that they would learn solely from content
delivery. <b>He was particularly critical of the use of computers as
'replacements' for teachers.’</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The growth mindset problem</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">‘Despite extraordinary claims for the
efficacy of a growth mindset, however, it’s increasingly unclear whether
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to change students’ mindsets about their abilities have any positive
effect on their learning at all. <b>And the story of the growth mindset is a
cautionary tale about what happens when psychological theories are translated
into the reality of the classroom, no matter how well-intentioned.’</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stimulate Wonder: Make Curriculum
Strange</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘The sense of wonder is a powerful
learning tool that fuels creativity and innovation.</b> Find out how to engage it
in teaching to maximize student learning.’</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Key To Raising A Happy Child</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>‘For much of the past half-century,
children, adolescents </b></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>and young adults in the U.S. have been saying they feel
as though their lives are increasingly out of their control</b>. At the same time,
rates of anxiety and depression have risen steadily.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>What's the fix? Feeling in control of
your own destiny. Let's call it “agen</b>cy.”'</span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why schools don't educate</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> – from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Gatto a US<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teacher of the Year</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Gatto concludes saying we have to bi pass the vested
interests that support the </b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>status quo and get grass roots thinking to demand
that ‘new voices and new ideas get a hearing’; that, ‘we have had a bellyful of
authorized voice</b>s’. That, ‘we need a decade long free-for-all debate…not more “expert”
</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">solutions</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">’; “</span><span lang="NL" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">experts</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">” in education have never got it right’. ‘Enough’ he says,<b> ‘time
for a return to democracy, individuality, and family.</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #38761d; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Savants : Beautiful minds - 'in a world of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">S<b>avants are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>special individuals that have one amazing passion</b>. Possibly the most </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">well known
savant was featured in the film ‘Rain man’ portrayed by Dustin Hoffman. Based
on a particular individual who had an amazing mind for mathematics and, in
common with other savants, was very limited in social and relationship
areas.<b>The programme made viewers wonder about the amazing potential that lies
within us all.</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-76922686144653468662019-03-15T17:15:00.001+13:002019-03-15T17:16:38.024+13:00Time to think of the 'big picture' about the purpose of education<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Collated by Allan Alach and Bruce Hammonds</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 18pt;"><b>Introductory thoughts</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;">Just listened to an economist <b>Kate Rayworth</b> on
National Radio <b>about the purpose of the economy</b>. <b>Currently it's about unlimited
growth with minimal concern with the effect it has on the sustainability of our
environment nor with the problems of inequality that the current emphasis on
unlimited growth has created</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>The purpose of the economy, she believes, should
now focus on meeting the needs of all people and the sustainability of the
planet rather than growth and self-interest.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>We now need an economy that focuses on helping
all people thrive and one that sustains the environment for future generations;</b>
an economy based on ‘wellbeing’ and an economy t<b>hat faces up to the massive
ecological and inequality crisis created by the ‘growth at all costs’ economy.
</b>We now need an economy, she says, that is <b>premised on ensuring all people
thriving in a regenerating environment.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this ‘new’ economy what then is the purpose
of education?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Currently, as a result of Tomorrows Schools,
education is based on schools competing with success being measured by growth
in achievement in a narrow range of metrics</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As a result we have developing ‘winner and loser’ schools with little
thought to the wellbeing of all schools. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>The Tomorrows Schools Review gives us an
opportunity to think beyond current narrow school </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>self-interest and to consider
ensuring the success of all students in all schools</b>. An education that ensures
all students leave able to make a better job of sustaining the environment than
the current generation.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">This week young people are marching in an effort
to raise our consciousness of the dire straits current economic policies, based
on unlimited and narrowly conceived growth have created.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Bruce Hammonds</span></b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Learn about Kate Rayworth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Hyperlink0"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkg2XMTWV4g"><span style="color: #0563c1;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkg2XMTWV4g</span></a></span></span><span lang="EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Eight ways of teaching<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>creativity.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Mia O'Brien, a lecturer at Queensland
University, knows about the importance of teaching creatively.</b> This excerpt is
from her 2012 study Fostering a Creativity Mindset for Teaching (and Learning):<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>"In order for creativity to be a
priority within schooling, we need teachers who understand the nature of
creativity and appreciate its pedagogical value. However, creativity is not
usually high on the list of reasons for choosing teaching."</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>What this tells us is that teachers have an
interesting challenge with creativity.</b> Not only must they inspire it in their
learners, but they must also give themselves full permission tobe creative as
well. After all, teaching creatively means considering how creativity can apply
to every responsibility a teacher has.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Educating students for their future not our
past</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>It’s so much easier to educate students for
our past, than for their future</b>. Schools are inherently </span></i></div>
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<i>conservative social
systems, as parents we get nervous when our children learn things we don’t
understand, and even more when they no longer study things that were important
for us.<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Teachers are more comfortable teaching how
they were taught than how they were taught to teach</b>. And politicians can lose
an election over education issues but rarely win one over education, because it
takes way more than an election cycle to translate good intentions into better
results.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>The biggest risk to schooling today isn’t its
inefficiency, but that our way of schooling is losing its purpose and
relevance.’<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
value of the Education Hub proposal</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Perhaps having access to an Education Hub at
the time would have helped resolve current issues?</b> A perfect mix of paid
education professionals and locals that had the time and energy and emotional
detachment to go through parent and teacher<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>could<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>make a huge difference.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Why Playfulness Is the Key to Success in the
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘“I do not know what I may appear to the
world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the
seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all
undiscovered before me.</b>” <b>Isaac Newton </b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">I like this because <b>it shows you the child in
him</b>, the one we can recognize in our own reflection if we pay attention. But
more so, I like it because, <b>from this human image, we can take out something
for ourselves, something that I think is becoming more relevant today.’</b></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Michael G. Fullan</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Teacher education programs must help
teaching candidates to link the <b>moral purpose</b> that influences them with the
tools that will prepare them to engage in productive change.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Teaching at its core is a moral profession.
Scratch a good teacher and you will find a moral purpose</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Steve Wheeler:</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘In my #3quotes series I have been citing
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<b>important to apply
ideas and theories in context</b>. Too often, writers cite from theorists using
secondary sources instead of delving into the original texts. <b>In this post I
will featuring direct quotations from legendary American psychologist Jerome S
Bruner</b>, whose work focused on the psychology of learning, pedagogical methods
such as instructional scaffolding and the spiral curriculum, as well as <b>social
constructivist learning methods</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Lies You Have Been Told About Educational
Technology</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘When it comes to educational technology, we
are all being lied to.</b> Educational policy-makers, <b>teachers, students, and
parents have been made to believe that modern technology is “transforming the
way students learn,” and “revolutionizing education.</b>” Schools issue tablets and
laptops instead of textbooks. Students spend much of their school day and night
tied to screens for schoolwork and homework. <b>The ed-tech companies have
successfully crafted, packaged and sold to schools many myths masquerading as
facts.</b> <b>These are spun in such a way that we are made to feel bad for
questioning them. However, once parents and decision makers see the truth, they
will demand change.’ </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘A three-phase process helps build strong
teacher-student bonds, which can reduce disruptive behavior.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Children’s Freedom: A Human Rights
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘For most people human rights have increased,
but for children they have shrunk.</b> In fact, children today are far more
deprived of liberty than they were when I was a child more than 60 years ago,
or when my parents were children 90 years ago. <b>And children are
suffering because of that deprivation. </b></span></i><i><span lang="PT" style="mso-ansi-language: PT;"><b>As I</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>’ve documented
elsewhere, children today are suffering at record levels from anxiety,
depression, and even suicide.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘The Tomorrow's Schools Independent Taskforce
spent almost six months looking at the evidence</b> and held over 200 meetings all
over the country. <b>So is our current education system still relevant?</b> Does it
work for you as a parent or school board member?<b> Does it meet the needs of our
children today?’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Sir Ken Robinson's book is a must read if we
want to bring education into the 21stC.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Our plea is for creative teachers,
particularly those in New Zealand, to share Sir Ken Robinson’s book with as
many teachers and schools as they can because the message is so important.</b> <b>If
we really believe in giving every student the opportunity to leave formal
education with their love of learning intact<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and with all their unique interests, gifts and talents identified and
amplified then we really have no choice.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUKkN-bTM_SBwZttzQwRa6NvE46CbeSRrPUHcvY6PhZAS3lCRTyhdGX9jb3w2fOb75cUXBh_LhA1lMWIe6y826SLLfvRwKLsq42DlerwVw7H4GDUzoNhXsF5QSdFlNV-xKpUlY/s1600/Guy+Claxton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="257" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUKkN-bTM_SBwZttzQwRa6NvE46CbeSRrPUHcvY6PhZAS3lCRTyhdGX9jb3w2fOb75cUXBh_LhA1lMWIe6y826SLLfvRwKLsq42DlerwVw7H4GDUzoNhXsF5QSdFlNV-xKpUlY/s200/Guy+Claxton.jpg" width="128" /></a><i><span lang="EN-US">‘Anyone who has attended one of <b>Guy Claxton</b>'
presentations ought to buy <b>his book 'What's the Point of School'. This book is
powerful and timely examination of why our schools are built to fail, and how
to redesign them to meet the needs of the modern world</b>.' The challenge of
redesigning schools is a big ask but the book gives lots of very practical
advice about how to create enthusiastic learners and more effective teaching<b>.
In particular the 'learning power' ideas gives guidance to how New Zealand
teachers can implement the 'key competencies' of the new curriculum.'</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘For too long schools have had to comply with
endless bureaucratic top down edicts, confusing curriculums and associated
accountability demands which have taken the focus away from </b></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>learning and
teaching.</b> As these imposed technocratic systems falter it is <b>now time for
creative teachers to also add their voices to the debate. </b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Students are born with a powerful desire to
learn. Everything we do as parents and teachers must ensure that this powerful
desire is kept alive</b>. If there were to be one thing to be continually assessed
it would be this desire... too many students leave with little to show for
their time at school. Too many leave alienated and powerless.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<br />Bruce Hammondshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07031065790535111400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8438349.post-77776524354852354702019-03-09T14:12:00.001+13:002019-03-09T14:13:54.274+13:00Innovative Learning Environments - and the need for imagination and creativity<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Introduction to
readings<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">It would seem many
schools are still locked into the assessment and associated documentation
required by National Standards and as a result are dedicating too much of their
time to literacy and numeracy – as important as they <i>are</i>. Bruce and I
have long believed that <b>the most important thing is to expose students to a
rich thinking curriculum – a curriculum that integrates areas </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>of the curriculum
as required</b>. Nothing new in this. <a href="https://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/early-world-0" target="_blank">Elwyn Richardson in his wonderful book In theEarly World </a>(available NZCER) written in the 60s saw his students as a
community of artists and scientists exploring their environment and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their personal concerns. More recently
<b>Professor Peter O’Conner</b> has expressed the need to develop programmes to
develop student creativity (November 2018 NZPF Magazine) and quoted <b><a href="https://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-dewey-educator-for-21stc.html" target="_blank">John Dewey</a></b>,
‘the arts are tools by which we train the imagination…its only when we imagine
that we can be better, that we can really change’.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Time now for some
creativity and imagination in our schools</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span lang="DA" style="mso-ansi-language: DA;">Allan Alach</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Innovative
Learning Environments – where’s the evidence?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">In an open letter to Education Minister Chris Hipkins, <b>parent Kia
King outlines her concerns</b> that there is no evidence to show that innovative
learning environments can support enhanced teaching and learning.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Innovative
Learning Environments – here’s the evidence</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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responds</b> to two big questions: Why is the design of classrooms changing? <b>And
how can we be sure that ‘innovative learning environments’ are actually leading
to better teaching and learning?’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Inside an ‘Innovative
Learning Environment – for and against</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>One of the great advantages touted is that ILEs create </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>collaborative
teaching</b>. Staff, from the same or different departments, must work together.
They share the space. There are no walls, every move is under examination not
only by their students but also by their peers. <b>It’s the complete
deprivatisation of practice</b>. Proponents say that it allows weaker practitioners
to learn from their stronger counterparts - to observe teaching techniques and
behaviour management in action.’ <b>Others have their doubts</b>.<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Tomorrow's
Schools Review: Winner vs Loser Schools</span>!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;"><b>One innovative principal</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><b>’s view.</b> ‘I have been emotionally shaken by <b>what I heard about the
willingness of some school leaders to adopt the position that everything is OK
for us so leave it as it is!</b> So much so that I carefully chose the discussion
tables I went to so that I could avoid hearing this position being promoted. I
failed!Yet, despite that experience <b>I still feel optimistic. The generational
shift occurring across many professions and institutions will not bypass
education and school leadership.’ By Maurie Abrahams - Hobsonville Point School</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">What Makes a Good
School Culture?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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culture is a key element of school success</b>. They might say their school has a “good
culture” when teachers are expressing a shared vision and students are
succeeding — or that they need to “work on school culture” when several
teachers resign or student discipline rates rise<b>. But like many organizational
leaders, principals may get stymied when they actually try to describe the
elements that create a positive culture.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Russell Bishop:
Who’s to blame for Māori failures at school?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US">In 1998, I wrote a book Culture Counts, where I suggested that<b> the
most important thing teachers could do, before they could do the job of
teaching, was to establish figurative whakapapa-type relationships with Māori
students and their families</b>. This would let the students and their families
know that you were serious and in your classroom, <b>Māori could succeed. That’s
what was missing from the schools and the classrooms where Māori kids weren’t
achieving at the level they should — a base of whanaungatanga.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The Artistry of
Teaching</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>There is one
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achievement of all other
goals very unlikely. That goal is to create those conditions that make students
want to learn; not have to learn but want to learn more about self, others, and
the world</b>. The overarching purpose of schooling and its governance is to
support that goal, i.e., to create and sustain contexts of productive learning
supportive of the natural curiosity and wonder with which children start
schooling.’ <b>Seymour Sarason</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Imagination,
Inquiry, and Agency</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>Finish this sentence…“Imagine a place where students could</b>…”Is that
place your school? What would it take for that place to be a reality for your
students? <b>What do you think school could, and should be?</b> That question is the
focus of thousands of conversations in school communities today. It’s a sign of
the concern, the angst, and for some even the desperation to better understand<b>
how we can more relevantly prepare our students for the rapidly changing modern
world we all now live in.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Article: ‘If all
of that testing had been improving us, we would have been the highest-achieving
nation in the world.' Here’s what does work in school reform </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘So what should
this country be doing to improve public schools? For one thing, pay attention
to the social and emotional needs of students so that they are prepared to
tackle academic work at school</b>, Darling-Hammond said.<b> Darling-Hammond cited
these policies in high-performing countries:</b> Equitable resources to schools.
Major investments in educator preparation and ongoing support Schools designed
to support teacher and student learning. <b>Equitable access to a rich, thinking
curriculum</b>. Performance assessments focused on higher order skills that are
used to guide learning.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">5 reasons why
data is a waste of everyone's tim</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">e</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Why do we put so
much focus on data? It's unreliable, confuses pupils and teachers, and takes up
far too much time, writes one teacher.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Simple Tips for
Boosting Teacher Resilience</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Try these quick
and easy ways to build resilience and relieve stress</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="DA" style="mso-ansi-language: DA;"><b>By Alfie Kohn</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>But as I’ve
thought more carefully about scaffolding</b> — and watched as it, like so man</span></i><i style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US">y
other promising terms, has been appropriated by non- and even anti-progressive
educators –<b> I’ve become increasingly skeptical.</b> Here are some questions I think
we might want to ask when the word is casually tossed around.’</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">A couple of Bruce’</span></i></b><b><i><span lang="DE">s Oldies</span></i></b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #347bf1;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: large;">Transforming
Secondary Education – the most difficult challenge of all. Thoughts from a past
age – ‘Young Lives at Stake’ by Charity James<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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right if all students were to leave able to take advantage of the exciting
opportunities the future might offer</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The challenge remains. Secondary schools need a radical reappraisal to
ameliorate the effects of obvious social and cultural disadvantages and also <b>to
develop the needs, talents and gifts of all students.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">'A World of
Difference’: the philosophy of a Taranaki pioneer creative teacher - Bill Guild</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US">‘</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-US"><b>The ideas that Bill developed 1970- 1986 may be useful for today's
teachers and they return their focus to developing students creativity and
imagination.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>The new term is underway and hopefully teachers now have some time for some reflective reading?</b> Establishing a new class is a challenging
experience and, under pressure, it is easy to fall back to doing what has
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experience but rather by reflecting on experience</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Asking what things went well and what might
need to change- and if change is required,where to find the relevant information are important questions? <b>This is where our readings might be of use</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>This set of readings focus on the importance of
creativity and the development of every student gifts and talents</b>. Now that
National Standards have gone we think it is an important issue.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Many teachers talk about creativity but what does being creative mean?</b> I don’t believe there is any one way to be ‘creative’. There aren’t five stages you need to go through to be creative. I do think there’s some value in understanding what is considered ‘the five stages of the creative process, I’m just not sure I believe them…’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Think! Figuring out that schools kill your creativity actually stimulates your inner self to be more creative. A short and creative read. Take a look.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>There is now a strong sense that creativity should be nurtured in classroom setting</b>s yet there is little understanding how effective and creative teachers function. <b>After three decades of standardised education, since the introduction of Tomorrow’s Schools, now is the time to place the focus on creativity.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>The benefits of mindfulnes</b>s, or being fully conscious and aware of one’s actions and surroundings, have been well documented. Studies show that only<b> certain mindfulness traits are linked to increased creativity. Studies would suggest, they should focus on sharpening powers of observatio</b>n’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘What has been gained through the introduction of modern information technology into our classrooms – and what has been lost?</b> Blended learning has the potential to transform the way teachers teach and students learn—if we take advantage of all that it offers. While blended learning brings with it the promise of innovation, <b>there is the peril that it will perpetuate and replicate existing practices with newer, more expensive tools.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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a different character, a kind of desperation that goes beyond “good stress.” After
listening to thousands of teachers tell their stories, <b>I have reached the
conclusion that there is one deciding factor that determines whether the
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desperate and crushed: That element is the principal</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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collaborative and flexible processes, utilise the physical space to maximise
learning time, and employ technology to enrich the learning experience of
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<b><i><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;">Earlier postings by Bruce on the
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Something is rotten in the state of education. Shouldn’t an
education system be about helping every learner develop their particular
talents, passions and dreams?</b> Shouldn’t teachers see their role as <b>developing
an individual learning pathway for every learner one based on their passions,
interests, dreams or talents?</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><b>try to be as good as they can be whatever their a</b>ge. What they want to do is to
find a niche within their group of peers, conforming to expectations on one
hand, while at the same time differentiating themselves on the other.
Developing this balance is a continuing universal challenge for us all.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">The new term is underway <b>we wonder how many
schools, now that the National Standards have gone, have begun the vital
transformation to place the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum centre stage</b> <b>and</b>, as
part of this shift,<b> have re-imagined literacy and numeracy as ‘foundation
skills’ vital to enable student inquiry and creativity?</b> As one commentator wryly said about
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evil twins literacy and numeracy have gobbled up the
whole curriculum’. <b>The future is about developing students’ gifts and talents
in tandem with the learning dispositions to be lifelong learners.</b> As Sir Ken
Robinson has said <b>‘creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy’ </b>and
this is echoed by educator Guy Claxton who says <b>‘learnacy is more important
than literacy and numeracy’. Are schools listening</b>?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Bruce Hammonds and I collect article to share to encourage a creative approach to education. Take a quick look - some might appeal to you. Please feel free to share with anyone you might think interested.</b></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Stop Calling Them Soft Skills; they’re Essential Skills</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘We need to call them what they really are: essential skills; skills
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things up. </b>And I think that starts with us stop calling communication,
collaboration, critical thinking, work ethic, and confidence “soft skills.”<b> How
about instead, they’re called “essential skills.”</b> Because they are essential,
arguably more essential than your ability to memorize facts and equations.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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culture is a key element of school success</b>. They might say their school has a “good
culture” when teachers are expressing a shared vision and students are
succeeding — or that they need to “work on school culture” when several
teachers resign or student discipline rates rise.<b>But like many organizational
leaders, principals may get stymied when they actually try to describe the
elements that create a positive culture.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">What will education in Australia look like in 2019?</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>The start of a new school year is a time of excitement and
curiosity as new students, parents and </b></span></i></div>
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<i><b>teachers wonder what they can expect
from the classroom</b>. More broadly, there are a lot of questions about what's in
store for the education sector as new teaching methods emerge and ever-present
technological disruption and innovation continues.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Big Picture Learning</b></span></span></div>
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of putting students directly at the center of their own learning.</b> BPL
co-founders Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor merged their thirty years of
experience as teachers and principals and their distinct national reputations
to launch this new innovation in education. <b>With an intention to demonstrate
that schooling and education can and should be radically changed, Big Picture
Learning was born.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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as possible to create, explore, study, and play with as little adult judgement
as possible</b>. I am not there to critique their work or to teach them tricks, but
rather to be the resident expert on safety, schedules, and courtesy, while
<b>providing the time and space for children to ask and answer their own questions
about their world</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Tomorrows Schools Review proposals will make schools better, says
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘Right now, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to address
systemic barriers to student success. The Independent Taskforce to Review
Tomorrow's Schools recently published its report, "Our Schooling Futures:
Stronger Together – </span></i><i><span lang="IT" style="mso-ansi-language: IT;">Whiria
Ng</span><span lang="EN-US">ā Kura Tūātinitini". <b>We believe that its more
than 30 recommendations will transform our schooling system, and that we will
be stronger together as a consequence.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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are its many examples of how to correct our present-day nature deficit</b>. By
undertaking the exercises he describes — using Orion to tell direction and
time, creating maps from the wind, or identifying trees by their sounds — the
book “gently” hammers our brains “into a new pattern of thought,”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Everyone Can Learn Mathematics to High Levels: The Evidence from
Neuroscience that Should Change our Teaching</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘For it is only when we combine positive growth messages with a
multi-dimensional approac</b>h to teaching, learning, and thinking, that we will<b>
liberate our students from fixed ideas, and from math anxiety, and set them
free to learn and enjoy mathematics.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">#3quotes from Vygotsky</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Steve Wheeler</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky is revered as a notable pioneer
of research into learning and cognitive developmen</b>t. Although his writings were
suppressed in the West for several decades, they eventually emerged in the 70s,
<b>representative of a progressive view of constructivism, in which the social was
seen as a major influence on learning</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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compassion, big new study finds</span></span></b></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>It’s just the latest study to find that giving students more access
to the arts offers measurable benefits.</b> And adding time for dance, theater, or
visual arts isn’t at odds with traditional measures of academic success,
according to the research — which amounts to one of the largest gold-standard
studies on arts education ever conducted.'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Advice from David Perkins to make learning Whole – how to integrate
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘The problem Perkins says is there is too much problem solving (
teachers problems ) and not enough problem finding - or figuring out often
'messy' open ended investigations. 'Playing the whole game' is the solution
resulting in some sort of inquiry or performance. Student are withdrawn individually or in groups to be given necessary help to return to the game of learning.</b>.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>Drawing is an ideal way to break through habitual ways of thinking.
All too often our students see but they do not look</b>. Observational drawing has
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<i><span lang="EN-US">in students - to assist students see through their habitual ways of seeing and
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>If we really believe students 'construct' their own 'meanings' from
any experience then teachers need to value the 'prior ideas' , questions and
theories their students have</b>. Only then can they set about to <b>challenge and
help students change</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US"><b> what they know and can do.</b> Some of the best research in
this process was completed in NZ in the 80s by researchers at Waikato
University but has been, more or less, ignored by those in authority since.’</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘Ideally classroom organisation should be based on helping students
achieve in depth quality learning across the curriculum amplifying or
uncovering, every student’s unique gifts and talents to ensure they have the
skills to become lifelong learners.</b>A close look at the daily classroom
organisation/timetable is a sure way to get an idea of what is seen as
important by the teacher – or the school.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Now that the National Standards emphasis on
literacy and numeracy, and the onerous associated assessment and </span></span></span></div>
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are no longer required,<b> it’s time for a new emphasis - a return to a creative
holistic and personalised approach to education</b>. With this in mind Bruce Hammonds and I search
out readings to encourage teachers to develop<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>activity based programmes
that are premised on developing the gifts and talents of all student</b>s-
programmes that as much as possible integrate literacy and numeracy as and when
required</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;">.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Time to re-read John Holt’ </span></span></b><b><span lang="NL"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">book </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">‘How Children Learn’ again</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Here, summed up, are <b>John Holt’s great insights about children’s
learning.</b> If Holt were alive today he might be optimistic because even though
the percentage who understand that children learn best when allowed to control
their own learning remains small, that percentage is growing.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘The basic idea is that students ask or are given compelling
questions and then investigate those questions, evaluate and find evidence to
answer them, and communicate their answer. An inquiry model is outlined and
related to project based learning.’ <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘By finding the positive, supportive, energetic teachers in your
school and sticking close to them, you can improve your job satisfaction more
than with any other strategy.’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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write</b> before he goes to school and gets all the school accolades that make her,
and importantly her parents, proud as punch. We see enough of them to know that
school knows how to respond to their talent.<b> I’m talking about thother kids.
The vast majority.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘We are not supportive of systematic phonic based teaching <b>we
believe It’s all about meaningful contexts.</b></span></i><i><span lang="EN-US">Phonic enthusiasts blatantly disregards hundreds of studies that
show the merits of<b> a rich, comprehensive literacy approach</b> that includes
phonics but not to the exclusion of authentic, <b>experiential reading (and
writing) experiences that will ensure that every child becomes a successful
reader inside and outside of school.’</b></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘How often have you been told that writing the lesson's objectives
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<i>you think of even one reason why doing this
might be a bad idea? Because the prevailing wind of conventional wisdom consistently
blows in favour of content-bloated, prefabricated externally mandated
standardized standards, it takes courage to pause and reflect.’<o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘I think it is important to highlight that if students aren’t
motivated and inspired to solve authentic and meaningful problems, it’s not
just them that misses out. It’s all of us.</b>
In case you haven’t been paying attention, we have some very real and
challenging problems that we continue to face in our world. Much of this is a
result of a focus on short-term, extrinsic rewards to coax kids through
low-level tasks and provide technology as games or rewards to motivate learners
instead of<b> designing authentic and personal learning experiences that draw on
learner’s curiosity, passions, and interest</b>s.'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘<b>Teaching is one profession where there is no shallow end</b>. From day
one you are presented with up to thirty plus young individuals for you to shape
into a learning community; and every class community will be different. Even
experienced teachers have <b>Here are some ideas to select fro</b>m.'<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Ken Robinson: Government “Standardization” Blocks Innovative
Education </span></span></b><b><span lang="DE"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Reform </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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or read the ideas about creativity of Sir Ken Robinson – now it time to put
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>“I never blame teachers or schools… But there is this deadly culture
of standardizing, that’s being pushed on them, politically</b>. My core message
here is that we have to personalize education, not standardize it.<b> That all children
are different, and we have to find their talents and cultivate them</b>.” ~Ken
Robinson<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b>Steve Wheeler is publishing sets of quotes from
significant educators - this week he features </b></span></div>
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<b>John Dewey</b>.<o:p></o:p><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US">‘One of the most valued books in my personal library was first
published over a hundred years ago, in 1916. It's by John Dewey and is called
Democracy and Education. One of the first things I learnt from reading Dewey,
is that <b>we don't teach subjects, we teach people</b>. Dewey opposed the mechanistic
methods of education that were prevalent in his day, proposing (then) radical
solutions. <b>His thoughts about the nature of education extend to what cannot be
taught, but is learnt by experience.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US">From Bruce’s ‘goldie oldies’ </span></i></b><b><i><span lang="IT">file:</span></i></b></span><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #165778;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"><b>‘In the future schools will need to focus on developing the talents
of all students rather than academic success</b> for those students who are best
suited to the current education..<b> An emphasis on a personalised talent based
education would dramatically transform education and would result in less
students leaving feeling failures, or worse still alienated, as at present.’</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Howard Gardner’</span></span></b><b><span lang="NL"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">s book </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">‘Five
Minds for the Future’.</span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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to worry that his ideas about <b>multiple intelligences </b>have not always been
introduced in ways that he approves.<b> In his 2006 book ‘Five Minds for the
Future’ he introduces readers to the ‘five minds’ that will be vital in the
21st.</b>’<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Such a lot of the ideas expressed today have
their genesis in the ideas of John Dewey. That Dewey's ideas have yet to be
fully realised says something for the power of conservatism in education</b>.
'Experience in Education' is Dewey's most concise statement of his ideas
written after criticism his theories received. In this book Dewey argues that
neither 'traditional ' nor 'progressive ' ideas are adequate and he outlines a
deeper point of view building on the best </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Treaty</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> of Waitangi</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> <b>O</b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/lesson-around-waitangi-day.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank"><b>ne good idea is to undertake a mini unit around the Treaty of Waitangi</b> and use this as an opportunity to develop a class treaty outlining behaviors required of both students and the teacher</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot";"><span style="background-color: white;">There is a new School Journal that provides an excellent reference</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot";"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>My goals f</b></span></span><b style="color: #38761d; font-family: quot; font-size: x-large;">or the year.</b><br />
<b style="color: #38761d; font-family: quot; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: quot; font-size: 16px;">An idea some teachers use is a letter to parents about your goals for the year </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;">- but if this is done it needs to be done with input from your team leader or principal. At least have something prepared to introduce yourself to your class . Students will be very curious to learn about their new teacher</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><b>Best holiday experience - language activity</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-sharing-our.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank"><b>Another idea is to share with your class one of your holiday experiences and then get them to do the same.</b> They could 'mind-map' or list all the neat things they did and pick one to expand on</a>. This <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2006/02/what-was-best-thing-you-did-in.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">activity will give you an idea of their writing and handwriting skills</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">If you do the above them students could add a drawing - one again get them to focus on exciting event.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Observational task - the power of drawing</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-importance-of.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">Learning to observe is an important and overlooked skill. You could bring in a simple leaf for the class to draw</a>. This is an ideal means to encourage the class to work carefully - many children spoil work by rushing.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Nature walk - take advantage of the good weather</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/the-school-holidays-time-for-some-real.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank"><i>With the weather so great do some nature walks</i>.</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>What are your new classes attitudes towards areas of learning?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-attitudes-do.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">The first few days are a good time to assess your new classes attitudes towards areas of learning. Prepare a list of learning areas of aspects of learning and get individual class members to indicate their attitudes towards items with a 1 to 5 scale - from 1 love it to 5 dislike it</a>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8438349#editor/target=post;postID=7629891324930892418;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=94;src=postname" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">.</a> This would best be drawn up by all teachers. The results will give you an idea of areas you need to change for various individuals. Be interesting to use the same survey at the end of the year. Do the survey with your class as if you were their age - and tell them how you have improved your attitudes since then - or areas you still want to improve.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Exploring your students; mindsets</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2010/10/dwecks-book-must-for-all-teachers-and.html" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 20.8px;"><span style="font-size: 18.06px;">If you know about the mindset research of <b>Carol Dweck</b> you could add to your survey add </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">:</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">1 Do you think were are born as smart as you are ever going to be ( 'brains' or sports ability) and there are some things you just can't do ? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">Or </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">2 Do you think you can get better at anything if you try hard and practice? </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtNhzks6ENdC-Hh6DVXXJmuqv54d6gCBj3jkNkP4GXdM-H8fHuk2lFXAhWjPuzCBQILx3bgjGJc1h4dQJkIPvpD7LB3uSW_zBomAiS9dc-J_lnWpvhjGHsemvSSOzmWsTgPg7sQ/s1600/shadow-of-the-teacher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #5588aa; float: left; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 13.33px; margin-right: 13.33px;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtNhzks6ENdC-Hh6DVXXJmuqv54d6gCBj3jkNkP4GXdM-H8fHuk2lFXAhWjPuzCBQILx3bgjGJc1h4dQJkIPvpD7LB3uSW_zBomAiS9dc-J_lnWpvhjGHsemvSSOzmWsTgPg7sQ/s1600/shadow-of-the-teacher.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="200" /></a><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">The first is a 'fixed mindset'</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">.Low ability students get their lack of ability affirmed at school ( through ability grouping, national testing or streaming) and high achievers ( often girls) do not risk their status by new areas of learning becoming risk averse. </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">Those with a 'growth mindset' just have a go at anything believing in effort and focused practice</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> and see not succeeding as a challenge.</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">This 'growth mindset' underpins the New Zealand Curriculum; ' have a go kids'</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large; line-height: 20.8px;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large; line-height: 20.8px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Share your stance as a teacher with your class</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">An idea to work on is to ensure yo</a></span></span><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="background-color: white; color: #5588aa; font-family: quot; font-size: 18.06px;" target="_blank">ur class appreciate <b>your stance as a teacher</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"> - what you stand for as a teacher.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><b>How do children in your class think they learn?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-how-do-we-learn.html" style="color: #5588aa; line-height: 20.8px;" target="_blank"><b>Discuss with your class how they think they learn</b>.</a><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> Discuss with your class what they have learnt recently and how they went about it.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "quot";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>What talent do individual bring to the class?</b></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-talents-do.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank"><b>Take the opportunity to find out the range of talents </b>class members bring to the class -</a> and share the ideas about Multiple Intelligence of <b>Howard Gardner</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">one. Two good mini unit to make use of might be a study based on<b> <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/cicadas-simple-sciencelanguageart.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">cicadas</a></b> or a<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2009/12/chance-to-do-some-real-inquiry-harakeke.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank"><b>flax bush</b></a> in flower.<b> Develop <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/10/interactive-teaching-model.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">a model of inquiry</a> teaching to make use of during the year.</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">At first students may have little skill in presenting their work well but with time they will gain skill through your teaching ( if you think this is important) and <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/action-plan-1-room-environments.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">as work is completed display</a> it well. <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #5588aa;" target="_blank">With time create a powerful learning environment.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>All students buy a set of exercise books to begin the year. Some schools I know have reinvented these books as portfolios</b> as they ought to show qualitative improvement (the Japanese call this continual small improvement 'kaizen'</span><strong style="line-height: 20.8px;">). </strong><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;">The first days of school is the time to introduce students to this expectation. </span><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">It is a good idea to </span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">introduce them to simple graphic presentation ideas</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;">. It is also a good idea to aim, by Easter, for all books to show improvement.In the schools that have developed their books as portfolios all books are sent home before parent interviews for their comments and later to discuss during interviews.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>I appreciate that the ideas presented above reflect my own teaching beliefs and as such my advice is to take only ideas that make sense to you</b>. <b>I see the classroom as a community of young scientists and artists exploring ideas they want to learn more abou</b></span><span style="color: #333333;">t - with an emphasis on the immediate environment. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Teachers need to negotiate with their students as much as possible to ensure empowerment or a sense of ownership and then to hold students to completing what they have agreed to do to develop a sense of responsibility</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "quot";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 18.06px;">The challenge for teachers is to think up ways to tap into their students innate sense of curiosity. of curiosity. Educationalist <b>Jerome Bruner</b> has written that teaching is ‘the canny art of intellectual temptation</span>’<span style="font-size: 18.06px;">.</span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; line-height: 20.8px;">Thankfully students are easily trapped by their innate </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "quot";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 18.06px;"><b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/the-new-zealand-curriculum-back-to.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An important phrase from the New Zealand Curriculum to keep in mind is for each student to be helped to ‘seek, use and create their own knowledge</a></b></span><span style="font-size: 18.06px;"><b>’</b>.</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "quot";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: 18.06px;"><b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2009/06/fundamentals-in-education.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The whole purpose of education is to help every learner develop a powerful learning identity, a strong sense of self, a feeling of being a valued and worthwhile person</a></b>.</span><span style="font-size: 18.06px;"> This involves the teacher really listening to their students’ questions, ideas and concerns. With such a vision in mind teachers can slowly, as students develop skill, pass greater responsibility to their students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Teachers</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> will be planning their first few days now. Wondering about routines to establish and behaviours they want to establish.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b>Treaty</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> of Waitangi</span></b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> <b>O</b><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2011/02/lesson-around-waitangi-day.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>ne good idea is to undertake a mini unit around the Treaty of Waitangi</b> and use this as an opportunity to develop a class treaty outlining behaviors required of both students and the teacher</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "quot";"><span style="background-color: white;">There is a new School Journal that provides an excellent reference</span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: quot; font-size: 16px;">An idea some teachers use is a letter to parents about your goals for the year </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;">- but if this is done it needs to be done with input from your team leader or principal. At least have something prepared to introduce yourself to your class . Students will be very curious to learn about their new teacher</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large;"><b>Best holiday experience</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-sharing-our.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Another idea is to share with your class one of your holiday experiences and then get them to do the same.</b> They could 'mind-map' or list all the neat things they did and pick one to expand on</a>. This <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2006/02/what-was-best-thing-you-did-in.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">activity will give you an idea of their writing and handwriting skills</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">If you do the above them students could add a drawing - one again get them to focus on exciting event.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Observational task - the power of drawing</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-importance-of.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Learning to observe is an important and overlooked skill. You could bring in a simple leaf for the class to draw</a>. This is an ideal means to encourage the class to work carefully - many children spoil work by rushing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2015/01/the-school-holidays-time-for-some-real.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i>With the weather so great do some nature walks</i>.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>What are your new classes attitudes towards areas of learning?</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-what-attitudes-do.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The first few days are a good time to assess your new classes attitudes towards areas of learning. Prepare a list of learning areas of aspects of learning and get individual class members to indicate their attitudes towards items with a 1 to 5 scale - from 1 love it to 5 dislike it</a>.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8438349#editor/target=post;postID=7629891324930892418;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=94;src=postname" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">.</a> This would best be drawn up by all teachers. The results will give you an idea of areas you need to change for various individuals. Be interesting to use the same survey at the end of the year. Do the survey with your class as if you were their age - and tell them how you have improved your attitudes since then - or areas you still want to improve.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Exploring your students; mindsets</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2010/10/dwecks-book-must-for-all-teachers-and.html" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 20.8px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: 18.06px;">If you know about the mindset research of <b>Carol Dweck</b> you could add to your survey add </span><span style="font-size: 16px;">:</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">1 Do you think were are born as smart as you are ever going to be ( 'brains' or sports ability) and there are some things you just can't do ? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">Or </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.8px;">2 Do you think you can get better at anything if you try hard and practice? </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtNhzks6ENdC-Hh6DVXXJmuqv54d6gCBj3jkNkP4GXdM-H8fHuk2lFXAhWjPuzCBQILx3bgjGJc1h4dQJkIPvpD7LB3uSW_zBomAiS9dc-J_lnWpvhjGHsemvSSOzmWsTgPg7sQ/s1600/shadow-of-the-teacher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #5588aa; float: left; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; margin-bottom: 13.33px; margin-right: 13.33px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTtNhzks6ENdC-Hh6DVXXJmuqv54d6gCBj3jkNkP4GXdM-H8fHuk2lFXAhWjPuzCBQILx3bgjGJc1h4dQJkIPvpD7LB3uSW_zBomAiS9dc-J_lnWpvhjGHsemvSSOzmWsTgPg7sQ/s1600/shadow-of-the-teacher.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 4px;" width="200" /></a><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">The first is a 'fixed mindset'</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">.Low ability students get their lack of ability affirmed at school ( through ability grouping, national testing or streaming) and high achievers ( often girls) do not risk their status by new areas of learning becoming risk averse. </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">Those with a 'growth mindset' just have a go at anything believing in effort and focused practice</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> and see not succeeding as a challenge.</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;">This 'growth mindset' underpins the New Zealand Curriculum; ' have a go kids'</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "quot"; font-size: large; line-height: 20.8px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Share your stance as a teacher with your class</span></b><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">An idea to work on is to ensure yo</a></span></span><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/developing-stance-as-teacher-ideas-of.html" style="background-color: white; color: #5588aa; font-family: quot; font-size: 18.06px;" target="_blank">ur class appreciate <b>your stance as a teacher</b></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"> - what you stand for as a teacher.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/01/beginning-school-year-how-do-we-learn.html" style="color: #5588aa; line-height: 20.8px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Discuss with your class how they think they learn</b>.</a><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> Discuss with your class what they have learnt recently and how they went about it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "quot";"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>What talent do individual bring to the class?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Using group work in the class</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2008/02/catering-for-student-learning-styles.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Personalizing learning</a>is the ideal but the best way to get to the individual is by using group work. <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/group-work-and-learning-styles.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Most teachers use group work as part of their literacy and numeracy programmes but group work also works well for study ( inquiry) work as well</a>.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><i>(<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/educational-quotes-9-classroom.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">A link to some advice on classroom management</a> )</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Plan out a simple study unit</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">one. Two good mini unit to make use of might be a study based on<b> <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2014/02/cicadas-simple-sciencelanguageart.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">cicadas</a></b> or a<a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2009/12/chance-to-do-some-real-inquiry-harakeke.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>flax bush</b></a> in flower.<b> Develop <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/10/interactive-teaching-model.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">a model of inquiry</a> teaching to make use of during the year.</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">The units above, or any idea you have chosen, will provide ideas to introduce as part of your language programme - and, if appropriate, maths as well.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Few thought about presentation</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2011/05/quality-presentation-requires-explicit.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Whatever is chosen it is worth helping students present their ideas wel</b>l</a> - and to <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">encourage them to show gradual improvement</a> as the year unfolds. Encourage them to improve on their 'personal best' in all they do.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 21.33px; margin: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">At first students may have little skill in presenting their work well but with time they will gain skill through your teaching ( if you think this is important) and <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/action-plan-1-room-environments.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">as work is completed display</a> it well. <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">With time create a powerful learning environment.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>All students buy a set of exercise books to begin the year. Some schools I know have reinvented these books as portfolios</b> as they ought to show qualitative improvement (the Japanese call this continual small improvement 'kaizen'</span><strong style="line-height: 20.8px;">). </strong><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;">The first days of school is the time to introduce students to this expectation. </span><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">It is a good idea to </span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-designed-student-visual.html" style="color: #999999; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #5588aa;">introduce them to simple graphic presentation ideas</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;">. It is also a good idea to aim, by Easter, for all books to show improvement.In the schools that have developed their books as portfolios all books are sent home before parent interviews for their comments and later to discuss during interviews.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2012/01/beginning-school-year-2.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">This last link provides a summary of the ideas presented above</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;">Advice - only use the ideas that make sense to you</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 13.33px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><b>I appreciate that the ideas presented above reflect my own teaching beliefs and as such my advice is to take only ideas that make sense to you</b>. <b>I see the classroom as a community of young scientists and artists exploring ideas they want to learn more abou</b>t - with an emphasis on the immediate environment. <a href="http://leading-learning.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/inquiry-based-classroom.html" style="color: #5588aa; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>My emphasis is on inquiry learning</b> with literary and numeracy as much as is possible seen as 'foundation skills'. I am not sure many school have the same emphasi</a>s.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>The class as a learning community</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13.33px; line-height: 21.33px; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 18.06px;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 18.06px;"><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"><b>Developing this learning community is the real challenge for any teacher</b>.</span><span style="font-family: "quot"; line-height: 20.8px;"> Good schools will provide structures, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: "quot"; font-size: 18.06px; margin-bottom: 18.06px; margin-right: 18.06px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhanNHrpkX1z6lU6x29-u4AEYHohkZszVjdOnhbah8yJK9X7iLb_DP_wBWGtdqhUpqShlpntr-U-u_Dxn_uDQnL-b7Gi9yPeVJjm4KuZC_SPQNhSc7F_Qhkxuivgi1CQMQ40EfGow/s1600/images+(20).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; clear: left; color: #5588aa; display: inline !important; font-family: quot; font-size: 18.06px; margin-bottom: 18.06px; margin-right: 18.06px; text-align: center;">organisations and curriculum guidance to assist but it always worth having ideas up your sleeve.</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Think about the message your students will take home after the first day</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Short quotes I've collected using the screensaver facility on my smart phone </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">I think they are worth a quick read - they may confirm ( or challenge ) your teaching philosophy. </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Obviously I've chosen quotes that reflect my own view. Unfortunately I didn't think to note the authors or source of the quotes. The Modern Learners site is a great source of quo</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">tes</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b>Many current ideas have a long history</b>. For me John Dewey is as relevant as ever and possibly the best book on children learning as a community of scientists and learners is Elwyn Richardson's <b>In the</b> <b>Early World</b> first published in the 60s and recently republished by the NZCER</span></div>
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