Four Big Ideas

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Four Big Ideas

• flexibilty to put students at the centre of the
  planning process but at the same time clarity
  about whats too important to leave to chance
• pedagogy matters- how students learn is just as
  important as what they learn
• students learn anywhere, anytime, from anyone-
  connecting students lives in school with their
  lives at home and in the community
• hearing students voices- students as key
  contributors to curriculum design

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I look behind the teachers eyes to see if
they are mean or if they really care and then I
know how to be with them
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Put on your own oxygen mask before you attempt to
help others
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What do you want to achieve? Let me tell you
what might be possible Show me what you can
do She videoed me I could see for myself what I
needed to work on Let me tell you what you are
doing properly Ill give you 2 things to work
on She taught me using several different
examples She gave me time to practice Have I
got this right? Tell me what bits of your body
feel different? When youve mastered this youll
be
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If I dont understand what the teacher is telling
me Id rather fail than talk to them about it. I
like to stay unnoticed. It took me a while to
realise that I had to actually interact with what
the teacher was teaching so it would make
sense.I guess I could call myself smart because
I usually get good marks. Sometimes I worry that
Im just repeating back what Ive heard and that
I dont really know much at all.When the
teacher tells me what to do I cant remember.
Then I get scared Ill get it wrong. I used to
ask her to tell me again but she always just
tells me to pay attention, so I just copy what
everyone else is doing because Im no good at
remembering.
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They both
Stuck at it when at first they didnt succeed
Got on with others who were different to
themselves
Gave new things a go
Were not discouraged by obstacles
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Linking Learning and Community

• Learning of community
• Learning with community
• Learning for community
• Learning as community

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Prohibitive environments make it difficult or
dangerous to express a range of independent
learning attitudes or behaviours. Affording
environments allow students to express learning
behaviours but dont make it particularly
attractive to do so Inviting environments engage
students but do not necessarily stretch and
challenge their capacity to learn. Potentiating
environments make learning both appealing and
challenging- teachers construct activities and
environments that stretch students capacity to
learn at the same time as they are learning new
content.
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You will see and much more if you are prepared
to look for it.things are concealed from our
view because there is no intention of the minds
eye towards them. We do not realise how far and
how widely or how near and narrowly we are able
to look. There is just as much visible to us as
we are prepared to appreciate. Not a grain more.
Thoreau 1858
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