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Community ConsultationThursday 14 October, 2010
Overview• Recap First Community Consultation
• Our Core Business - LearningSurfacing beliefs
• What kind of learning spaces? Environment
• Teacher Appointments
• Progress Update
• Strategic Direction
• Stations - We value your voice
Previously we flew over and took a big picture view.
Progress Update
IT Infrastructure
Uniform
Brand
Design
Enrolment Zone
Enrolments
Furniture
Fundraising
Collaboration
Vision
Educative Purpose
Future Trends
Feedback
•Summary of Feedback
•Located on the School Websitewww.stonefields.school.nz
•Can still add your ideasSurvey Monkey
Landing within the School
Our Core Business ..
Every young person needs to be equipped to seize learning opportunities throughout life to broaden their
knowledge, skills & attitudes, and to be able to adapt to a changing, complex and interconnected world.
Guy Claxton, 2010
Beliefs to Practice
Belief
Principles
Practices
Julia Atkin, 2006
Assessment - What do we believe and value?Assessment information progresses learning
student involvement
Assessment methods inform next steps
Key Stakeholders well informed
Timely
Self assessment
Parent involvement
Goal setting
Running Record - Reading
Beliefs to Practice
Beliefs & Values about learning Principles Practices
•Building learning capacity•Nurturing collaboration•Inspiring curiosity to make meaning
•Broadening horizons - Breaking through
•How will it look like in practice?
e.g. inspiring curiosity to make meaning;
•Build knowledge of the Inquiry process
•Equip learners with thinking tools to help them problem solve
Why? How? What?
Goal Setting
Talents/ StrengthsContributing
Inquiry LearningPersonal bests
Mastery
Making a difference
Thinking SkillsLiving values
Curiosity
Science
Social SciencePhysical Health &
WellbeingTechnology
Innovation
Learner competencies
Practices - What?
Literacy and Numeracy
What makes a learner an effective learner?
Community Ideas
• Looking forward to the future• Curious• Problem-solver• Can adapt new skills to new situations• Self-assessment• Team-work/ collaboration and team
assessment• Maslow’s hierarchy of need- Learning,
Contribute, Belonging, Sure and Secure• Desire to make a difference• Curiosity• Challenge the boundaries• Compassion• Good listener• Inspiring • Patient• Understanding • Respectful• Inspired• Confidence instilled• Ability to have a different opinion
be openreflect
questionwonder
think
respectcompassioncontribute
Goal Setting
•About Mastery and Personal Bestsvs
•Performance (faster, neater, better)
•Effective Goal setting has a significant impact of student outcomes Hattie, 2010
Showing Progress
Goal Setting
Talents/ Strengths
Foundation LearningContributing
Inquiry LearningPersonal bests
Mastery
Making a difference
Thinking SkillsLiving values
Curiosity
Science
Social SciencePhysical Health &
WellbeingTechnology
Innovation
Learner competencies
Practices - How
Young minds are as much social as individual. It seems impossible that schools can continue to resist this growing
pattern of social interaction in the ways learning and assessments are structured.
Guy Claxton, 2010
What values would you like to see reinforced?
Community Ideas
• Respecting others• Open mindedness• Respect• Collaboration - Participation• Love of learning• Confidence to speak up• Integrity• Equality• Great> ‘Wego not ego!’• Compassion• Respecting people• Caring for each other• Friendly atmosphere• Honesty
RespectCompassion
Honesty
Goal Setting
Talents/ Strengths
Foundation LearningContributing
Inquiry LearningPersonal bests
Mastery
Making a difference
Thinking SkillsLiving values
Curiosity
Science
Social SciencePhysical Health &
WellbeingTechnology
Innovation
Learner competencies
Practices - What
Making Meaning
Inquiry Process
• Building Knowlege
• Connecting and Thinking to make meaning
• Applying Understandings
Inquiry
All in Balance
• What is powerful to learn - What
matters?
• What is powerful learning - building capacity to learn
Knowing what to do when you don’t know
what to do
Developing the necessary conceptual understandings for learners to make sense of
their world
Learning Spaces
Designing Agile Spaces
•What do you think the learning spaces need to look like, sound like, feel like to enable the type of learning we have been describing?
Y chart
‘Think big and be brave’ to think beyond your own school
experience...
Purposeful SpacesFit for Purpose
• Cave space(independent)
• Watering hole(Group, collaborative)
• Camp fire(large group, class)
Prakash Nair
Mary Featherston, Interior Design Process
21 Century Schools
A Learning Hub
Authentic Spaces•Open, Social, Real Malan, 2009
Jasmax
Appointments
Community Feedback
• Make students curious, learning by doing• Inspire students to love learning• Encourage student directed learning• My teacher back in 1986 was the best. He just
believed in me! – You are the best!• Can adapt teaching style methods to the learner.
Therefore know how the child learns• Ability to be respected by students• The ability to be looked up to• Having fun with children yet providing guidance• Adapting to each child and recognizing strengths
and weaknesses. Make the weaknesses the strengths• A teacher that helps you think for yourself• Guidance• Explains clearly• Answers questions• Caring• Have lots of patience and be a good learner• My best teacher had respect of all for no effort. A
passion for his job and an ability to make everyone achieve more than they thought possible. 25 years on and I still remember how they helped me to learn
Rigorous Process
Made 8 appointment
range of experience
Expertise covering all areas
Induction
Progress Update
Start Date
Resources
Enrolments
After School Care
Travel Wise
Green Star
IT Provider
Research
Assessment
Strategic Direction
• Focus Group WantedIf you are interested in being involved in strategic planning discussions, standing for the Board next year.
• Please record your email and contacts on the sheet.
• First meeting 3 November, 6.00pm
Bus Stop Stations 20 min
1. Extra curriculum activities investigated.What else would you like us to investigate?
2. Strategic Planning focus group - Please sign up if you are interested to take part.
3. Have a sit in the School chairs, try out the beanbag prototype
4. Logo development movie
5. Have a play on a sample mobile device? Would you pay $12 a month to lease one for your child?
6. Mathletics - Would you be happy to pay? what do you think?
7. Learning Environment - What are your thoughts?
8. Informal Question and Answer with any Leadership or Establishment Board member.
Contact
office@stonefields.school.nzwww.stonefields.school.nz09 527 7721
Next meeting scheduled for 23 SeptemberWhat time suits you best?Next meeting we will land and be ready to answer more detailed questions you may have.
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