The NEXT Foundation, NPeW trustees, Principals, BOT members and many other stakeholders attended this most successful event.
Frances Valintine discussed 'The Need for Change in the Education Sector' She started by challenging us to think about how many students finish school without knowing their potential...
She went further and talked about 2020 Education and beyond and 10 Essential technologies.
Some realities:
- Students are starting to look how to make the world a better place
- Today's 5 year old will never drive a car
- Skills required today is not being taught in today's schools
- There is a move to having no entry criteria / age to do a degree. It is the outcome that will
be measured at the end
- Very little of the following are being taught in schools...
- Employers are starting to look at skills, not the degree
- Robots are used as Teacher Aide's
The Mind Lab remind teachers:
- that is okay not to know everything
- that learning is a life long pursuit
- that sometimes students really do know more than we give them credit for
- that we began to change an educational system from the inside
What should we do?
- Tell kids they can learn they way they want to learn. Give them a problem, technology
and let them go
- Teach kids how to think, to work collaboratively, to be creative and to discover
- Teach them the benefits of failure and trying
Sue Winters gave a stellar presentation on 'Why we need Future Focused Learning Environments'
She asked the audience to take on the challenge to meet the needs of our learners.
Realities:
- Principals / Teachers were the agents of change, but with Learner Agency it is the learners
- We should have effective teaching approaches which include:
* Cultural Responsiveness
* Integration
* Evidence-based decision making
* Reflective Practice
* Inquiry
* Co-construction
* Reciprocity
- We need our teachers to have adaptive confidence and trial things another way and to
learn from their learners
- 6 Global Competencies that links to Learner Agency. Maybe we need to access on
these 6 competencies...!
- If we have effective teaching, the more likely we'll have Learner Agency
- Humans are innately wired to connect, wired to create and wired to help
humanity (Fullan, uLearn 1016)
What next?
Think about what does this all mean for leaders...
Bill Kermode on the 'Philosophy and Role of the NEXT Foundation'. They look at projects that can make a difference. Projects include the Environment and Education. The Next Foundation has been established with a vision “to create a legacy of environmental and educational excellence for the benefit of future generations of New Zealanders”.
- By supporting and investing in aspirational education projects, their aim is to empower
young people today and the leaders of tomorrow.
- NEXT Foundation support Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru and believe the project can make a
contribution to the National level in education
- NEXT Foundation also support the Government's goal to have New Zealand predator free
by 2050
She went further and talked about 2020 Education and beyond and 10 Essential technologies.
- Students are starting to look how to make the world a better place
- Today's 5 year old will never drive a car
- Skills required today is not being taught in today's schools
- There is a move to having no entry criteria / age to do a degree. It is the outcome that will
be measured at the end
- Very little of the following are being taught in schools...
- Employers are starting to look at skills, not the degree
- Robots are used as Teacher Aide's
The Mind Lab remind teachers:
- that is okay not to know everything
- that learning is a life long pursuit
- that sometimes students really do know more than we give them credit for
- that we began to change an educational system from the inside
What should we do?
- Tell kids they can learn they way they want to learn. Give them a problem, technology
and let them go
- Teach kids how to think, to work collaboratively, to be creative and to discover
- Teach them the benefits of failure and trying
She asked the audience to take on the challenge to meet the needs of our learners.
Realities:
- Principals / Teachers were the agents of change, but with Learner Agency it is the learners
- We should have effective teaching approaches which include:
* Cultural Responsiveness
* Integration
* Evidence-based decision making
* Reflective Practice
* Inquiry
* Co-construction
* Reciprocity
- We need our teachers to have adaptive confidence and trial things another way and to
learn from their learners
- 6 Global Competencies that links to Learner Agency. Maybe we need to access on
these 6 competencies...!
- If we have effective teaching, the more likely we'll have Learner Agency
- Humans are innately wired to connect, wired to create and wired to help
humanity (Fullan, uLearn 1016)
What next?
Think about what does this all mean for leaders...
- By supporting and investing in aspirational education projects, their aim is to empower
young people today and the leaders of tomorrow.
- NEXT Foundation support Ngā Pūmanawa e Waru and believe the project can make a
contribution to the National level in education
- NEXT Foundation also support the Government's goal to have New Zealand predator free
by 2050
~ "Education needs to be radically rethought partly to stop the boredom, but mostly to blow the lid off learning, whereby students and teachers as active partners become captivated by education." - Michael Fullan & Maria Langworthy in Towards a New End: Pedagogies for Deep Learning ~
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