Creating Supportive Creating Supportive Learning Environments Learning Environments to Raise Student to Raise Student Achievement Achievement Lisa Squire & Sharyn Afu July 2013 It’s a Learner’s World:Mapping a New Landscape www.hobsonvillepoint.school.nz
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Creating Supportive Learning Environments to Raise Student Achievement:Hobsonville Point Primary School
Presentation for Learning Network New Zealand - Conference July 2013 with Sharyn Afu It's a Learner's World: mapping a New Landscape
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Creating Supportive Creating Supportive Learning Environments to Learning Environments to
‘I don’t think I would get on very well in my ideal school because I am too used to being told what to do.’ (Frances, fifteeen)
What is the point of school?
Guy Claxton, What’s the point of school?
Themes•Relationships
• Authentic Learning
• Personalised Learning
•Modern Learning Environments
‘The school I’d like would be one whose primary aim was to teach me how to live...Today, academic knowledge has become the sole interest of many schools, and few (teachers) are daring enough to abandon the exam rat-race for the job of creating thinking, adult individuals (Christine, sixteen years)
Who are the special people in your life that you have learnt from?
What made that relationship special
to you?
‘It is also true that our greatest source of pride in self generally comes from achievements inspired from within and encouraged and supported by others who expect and demand that we would give our best.’
contexts a similar concept allows for deeper understanding
Digital Age Literacies- social sciences, the arts
Inventive Thinking- technology, science, the arts
Effective Communication- health, the arts, languages
Literacy and Numeracy flow through these multi-literacies
Reggio InfluenceThe Reggio Emilia philosophy is based upon the following set of principles:•Children must have some control over the direction of their learning;•Children must be able to learn through experiences of touching, moving, listening, seeing, and hearing;•Children have a relationship with other children and with material items in the world that children must be allowed to explore and•Children must have endless ways and opportunities to express themselves.The Reggio Emilia approach to teaching young children puts the natural development of children as well as the close relationships that they share with their environment at the center of its philosophy.