It’s a matter of trust. When Billy Joel wrote the lyrics to It’s a Matter of Trust, he probably wasn’t thinking about the Finnish education system.
Yet the more I read the literature on high performing systems, I am convinced that trust is at the core of the cultural change needed to reshape schooling. It’s not new nor is it rocket science. Michael Fullan says that you build trust through behaviour. John Hattie tells us that the ability for teachers to develop trust within the classroom is key to making students feel OK about making mistakes and asking questions. In Visible Learning, the highest “effect sizes within teacher student relationship came from empathy, warmth and encouragement of higher order thinking.”
As noble a calling as teaching is, the profession has been tarnished by a lack of trust, suspicion of teachers’ work and a top down approach to school improvement. What differentiates high performing systems from others is trust. Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion.
Rethinking education in the age of technology.pdf. Effective Principal Leadership. First Follower: Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy. Great Teachers Are Great Learners - AITSL. Great Teachers Are Great Learners - AITSL. The Hundred Languages of Childhood. Roger hart ladder of participation. Richard Gerver. AITSL. David Perkins. What if school was more like this? This was written by George Couros who is Division principal of Innovative Teaching and Learning for Parkland School Division in Alberta, Canada.
He is suspiciously well dressed and has the healthiest head of hair I've ever seen. He tweets here and blogs here. This post was originally found here. by George Couros Here is a little activity that you can do with staff when returning to school to get the wheels turning on project based learning inspired by this awesome video. Take the Alberta Education Competency Wheel below: Then watch this AMAZING video below about a self-initiated project done by a pretty cool kid: As you watch the video, write down all of the things that the student did on his own to meet the expectations as listed in the “Competency Wheel”. You could also discuss this article that has some lessons taken away from the video (quote shortened below): 1. 2. 3. Better yet, show the video to kids and discuss the wheel with them.
8 Things to Look For in Today’s Classroom. As I think that leaders should be able to describe what they are looking for in schools I have thought of eight things that I really want to see in today’s classroom.
I really believe that classrooms need to be learner focused. This is not simply that students are creating but that they are also having opportunities to follow their interests and explore passions.1 The teacher should embody learning as well. Will Richardson recently wrote this in a comment on one of my recent posts on what teachers need to be like in our current day and the focus that needs to be on learning: …we need teachers who are masters at developing kids as learners who are adept at sense making around their own goals. Teachers who are focused on helping students develop the dispositions and literacies required to succeed regardless of subject or content or curriculumThis moment is all about learners having an amazing new freedom to learn, not teachers having an amazing new freedom to teach. 1. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education. How schools stifle creativity. #PSP2012 VIDEO – KR. Sir Ken Robinson concludes the morning sessions of “Teaching and Learning at Home and at School” by inviting educators and parents to collaborate in the design of a covenant of shared principles to transform our schools.
First, Robinson identifies an agenda of issues on which we need to focus as we move forward: vexing economic, cultural, and personal challenges with which our education system has not caught up. Then, Robinson asserts that our current system is incapable of dealing properly with these challenges, owing to a ‘command and control mentality’ among political leaders, and invites stakeholders at the grassroots level — in our classrooms, and in our homes — to create an agenda not just for reform, but for transformation.
Further information and related resources are provided below the embedded video. To advance the presentation to key transitions, drag the slider to the indicated timeframes: Teachers Are Like Gardeners. Richard Gerver. Broadcast Yourself. Richard Gerver - Creating schools that prepare for the future. The 21st century pedagogy teachers should be aware of. Interpersonal learning , personalized learning, second life learning , 3d learning, collaborative learning and virtual learning , these are just some of the few buzz words you would be be reading so often in today’s educational literature.
Things have changed , old methods and pedagogies are no longer relevant. The teacher-controlled learning where pre-constructed information is presented in a formal and standardized classroom settings becomes very obsolete. The urgent questions we should , as educators , ask ourselves are : what are the driving factors behind this huge transformation in learning ? And Do we need a new pedagogy to better enhance learning ? Advancements in technology and particularly social networking technologies are changing the whole educational framework . It is evident now that we are in front of two different versions of learner one is labeleed the the 20th century learning and the second is called the 21st century learning. Education must be a celebration of living life. Educational Leadership - Articles, Resources for Educators.