Really good turn-out at the third annual REAP-sponsored EduCamp workshop day hosted at Makoura on Saturday and offering teachers a range of opportunities to find out more about interesting teaching & learning happening around the region, particularly in the primary sector.
The
pre-recorded video keynote address delivered by Claire Amos, Albany Senior High
principal, highlighted three core elements in the current approach of
innovative future-focused New Zealand secondary schools –
1 project work that is student-led,
connected with the community, and focused on social action
2 mentoring/learning advisory time scheduled into
the timetable to enable tutoring/coaching and whanaungatanga
3 core
curriculum delivered with team-teaching through integrated cross-curricular modules
These
things, she contends, offer more personalised, thematic, connected and
authentic learning which develops student agency and ownership of learning.
The 20
minute video also offers interesting reflection on the potential implications of
the proposals for changes to NCEA.
https://youtu.be/J5LHiDa4Hkc
Amongst the workshops offered at EduCamp was an interesting insight from Gareth Sinton and Shaun Harkness into the Maker pedagogy being explored at Douglas Park School. Beginning with a John Dewey quotation “There is no such thing as genuine understanding without doing”, we were shown how Douglas Park staff have been working with Making as Learning to help develop the school’s core focus points of agency, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity – and how making anything from high-tech machines to puppets or cardboard models helps children to understand more about how to pivot, how to revise, and how to persevere. Making can come in several forms: making for the sake of making; making to develop skills; making to solve problems or help others; making to share learning – and last anything from ten minutes to ten weeks. There were many parallels here with our own work at Makoura this year on project-based learning.
Amongst the workshops offered at EduCamp was an interesting insight from Gareth Sinton and Shaun Harkness into the Maker pedagogy being explored at Douglas Park School. Beginning with a John Dewey quotation “There is no such thing as genuine understanding without doing”, we were shown how Douglas Park staff have been working with Making as Learning to help develop the school’s core focus points of agency, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity – and how making anything from high-tech machines to puppets or cardboard models helps children to understand more about how to pivot, how to revise, and how to persevere. Making can come in several forms: making for the sake of making; making to develop skills; making to solve problems or help others; making to share learning – and last anything from ten minutes to ten weeks. There were many parallels here with our own work at Makoura this year on project-based learning.
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