Transforming learning

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Transforming learning
What sort of learners and learning are we aiming
for?
Pete Bains 18/01/10
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What sort of learners do we want Camden schools
to produce? What sort of learning do we want
to take place?
Transforming learning

• BSF
• Camden Campus for Learning

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What are we trying to achieve?
Successful learners who make progress and achieve
Confident individuals who lead safe and healthy
lives
Curriculum aims, ECM outcomes, skills and
attributes
Responsible citizens who make a positive
contribution to society
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Schools today

• Todays high schools were conceived
• at the beginning of the 20th century to prepare
  students to work in an industrial economy that
  looked very different from the economy we have
  today
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. High Schools
  for the new Millennium

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Synchronisation

• ..institutions out of sync with each other are
  caught in a clash of speeds between the old
  system and the new. Standardised education is
  among the slowest institutions to adapt.
• If you were monitoring the speed of cars going
  by, you would clock the car of business, which
  changes rapidly under competitive pressure, at
  100mph.
• But the car of education, which is supposedly
  preparing the young for the future, is only going
  at 10 mph.
• You cannot have a successful economy with that
  degree of desynchronisation
• Alvin Toffler. Futurist author and advisor to
  successive US and other administrations .
  Speaking to the FT August 2006

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Organisations for learning
Institutions for schooling

• Teacher commands content and style of learning
• Limited choice
• Learning happens at the beginning of life
• Learning happens in institutions
• School buildings as institutions delivering
  traditional learning
• Education benefits some
• Child adapts to the school system
• Schools see other learning providers as a threat

• Learning professionals seek the most appropriate
  combination of learning opportunities
• Learners choose how, where, what and when they
  learn
• Everyone learns all the time
• Learning happens anytime, anywhere
• Responsive, alert and flexible buildings able to
  accommodate change
• Learning benefits all
• System supports the learner
• Learning providers collaborate with each other

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BSF in a nutshell....

• a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
• 250 million investment in buildings and ICT
• raise achievement
• right wrongs social justice
• provide 21st century facilities
• facilitate effective learning
• transformational ICT
• CCfL
• inclusion Hubs

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Camden Campus for Learning
Challenge and engagement
Every Child Matters
Education fit for C21
Close attainment gaps
Raise achievement for all
14-19 entitlement
Personalised learning
High quality teaching and learning
New KS3 curriculum
New pedagogies
Development of skills
New technologies
Childrens centres
Inclusion Hubs
Diversity choice
Special schools
Primary Schools
PRUs
Secondary Schools
Robson House
Children and young people
Colleges
Camden CSF
Other education providers
Youth services
Schools in other boroughs
Extended services
Wider community
CLC
Multi-agency teams
Out of school learning
Team around the child
Adult community education
Parents and carers
Partnership
Specialisms/ hubs of expertise
Efficiency and value for money
Integration and coherence
Collaboration
Inclusive