Vision of the School of the Future

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Vision of the School of the Future

• Challenges in Schools
• Final Conference, 1-3 March 2009

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Values

• Equal opportunities equal access to resources
  for everyone to meet their needs
• Assessment which enables students to feel
  confident about what they achieved and to see how
  to improve
• Mixed classes social background, race, religion
  
• Challenge is normal and not to be feared

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Community

• Educating parents on how to support pupils
  learning
• Clearer and better communication between parents
  and teachers
• Involvement of police and other agencies to deal
  with big problems such as bullying, drugs,
  personal support

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School environment

• Imaginative use of space in order to allow
  students to
• integrate
• relax
• in a secure eco-friendly environment
• Integration of students with special needs
• Availability of the virtual school balance
  between technology and face-to-face but forefront
  use of technology in schools

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Learning

• Learning in and out of school
• in school to learn to co-operate, interact, build
  up social skills and manage time
• out of school e-learning and multimedia any time
  any place, visits, trips, exchanges, field work,
  work experience, project work
• More technology-based independent learning,
  freeing up teachers to support students

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Learning

• Personalised learning
• small, ability based classes
• flexibility and choices
• academic, non-academic skills
• International learning
• languages and cultures
• international schools to promote international
  understanding and cross-cultural awareness

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Teacher-training

• Changes to teacher training to enable changes to
  attitudes in learning
• More emphasis in teacher-training on psychology
  and learning to learn
• Teacher-training for personalised learning
• Catering for all students with different needs

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Student voice

• Students as customer
• Students have a say in
• what they do
• how they do it
• design of the school