After 3 days of conference, my brain reached capacity today! It was day two of the Future Schools Future Leaders Conference. (If you want to read, my ramblings from day 1 click HERE)
There were a number of ideas that I connected with…
- Pedagogy before technology – always!
- Fitness coach instead of a HPE class
- Teachers provide feedback on mastery
- TtDESC and ISDCN Project are important – keep sharing the love
- Positive Education is going in the right direction at our school
- Wellbeing is like the weather
- The need to inspire staff
- Clean the fish tank don’t just treat the sick fish
The following extended my thinking…
- Fixed time vs flexible time vs independent time
- Gant charts for the students to manage their time
- Go back to the rational of the DigiTech curriculum documents – remember the purpose don’t just be a check list of yes we have done this
- Realise the potential and the ideas behind the DigiTech curriculum
- Introduce more brain breaks – Thumbs – if same clap if different continue
- To move forward we all need purpose – why am I doing this?
Lastly, I am being challenged by the following – perhaps it just needs more research…
- Use icons to indicate the type of task – visual aid to assist students
- Need to contact Melbourne Girls Grammar to find out more about their flexible time and independent time
- Being prepared enough for students to select their own due dates
- Read Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- How can we connect more projects to cover the content areas and give more time to go in depth into the curriculum instead of just the surface
- Time to Audit and Reflect the use of STEM
- My own negative bias
- Me TV/the school show
- Disrupt the model of education
- Need to contact Templestowe College to find out more about their flexible learning programmes
Would love to hear your feedback.