2016 ABSA National Conference Creating the Right Conditions in Boarding PD Presentation
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- 2. • Aim – what do you want to gain from this? What are you look for? • 21st Century Context – the changing reality our students will face (which supports the need for Boarding). Finding a gap! • “Why” boarding matters - arguments positioning the importance of Boarding in addressing the 21st Century reality. • Ken Robinson’s “7 Senses” Pedagogical Framework - A practical approach to creating the right conditions in Boarding • Strategies – How might we be already addressing “7 senses”? • TPS Context – same, same but different. • TPS Strategies – Our attempts to fulfil student’s “7 senses” • Strategies – What might we be able to do now to address “7 senses”? • Parting thoughts – Our attempts to fulfil student’s “7 senses” Overview 27/09/2016 2
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- 6. 21st Century Context – Opening thoughts John Dewey Richard Riley
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- 9. preparing students for the universally positive goals of building personal competencies, expertise and wisdom. All students need to consider the wider implications of their actions, to act mindfully in the world and to reflect on their contributions and adapt to C. Fadel The world is becoming increasingly turbulent. It is difficult to overstate the impact of digital technologies on how we think, live and work. The benefits of these technologies are extraordinary, but there are drawbacks too. K. Robinson 21st Century Context - VUCA 27/09/2016 9
- 10. 21st Century Context - Tyranny of the urgent! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2Wn CkBTw0 Free Kids – Dirt is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467tidi TFHQ Omo soccer free play 10
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- 13. We need to be teaching non- routine interpersonal skills (such as those involved in consulting and coaching) and non-routine analytical skills (such as in engineering design and medical surgery)”. Fadel, Bialik & Trilling. Four Dimensional Education 27/09/2016 13
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- 16. “Trying to meet the future while doing what we did in the past” Sir Ken Robinson Too much focus on deductive reasoning Linear relationship between academic versus non academic on the spectrum extremes Greater needed for divergent thinking. Thinking laterally, changing the status quo It is the capacity to learn that needs to be nurtured – not just ‘what is learnt’. Anonymous Positioning Boarding within 21stC Context
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- 19. So - what DO you already do? People Programs & Processes Physical Infrastructure Resources Sight Sound Smell Taste Touch Balance Intuition 27/09/2016 19
- 20. “7 Senses” – A Pedagogical Framework 7 Senses! - Sight - Sound - Smell - Taste - Touch - Balance - “Intuition” People Programs & Processes Physical infrastructure 27/09/2016 20
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- 23. . The question of when time stops for you. Flow occurs, learning occurs, in and outside the classroom, when your highest strengths are just matched with the highest challenges because then they can grow and flourish. That means we can tailor what we do to providing the right type of challenges that encourage Martin Seligman, Wellbeing before learning Intuitive Synergy 27/09/2016 23
- 24. Intuitive Synergy Human beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grow in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our own growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth Ken Robinson, The Element 27/09/2016 24
- 25. Sir Ken Robinson’s “Finding your element through passion”… Strategies – Creativity & Passion Provide students opportunities to reflect and learn their passion so that they can better navigate through life Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Confucius Robinson argues that to be in your element, you have to love what you do. Vital to understanding who you are Provides purpose and direction 27/09/2016 25
- 26. A good life is not measured by security, wealth, status, achievement or levels of happiness. A good life is determined by our capacity for selflessness and our willingness to connect with those around us in a meaningful - Hugh McKay Strategies – Benefit Mindset 27/09/2016 26
- 27. Strategies – Experiential learning 27/09/2016 27
- 28. • Originally a ‘local’ Boarding house • ‘Morphed’ into an International Boarding House • 50 Male students. 23 female students • Separate buildings on campus • Supported by an English Language Centre • 90% students have limited English as a second language. • Language barriers mean it is labour intensive • Minimal parental involvement • Minimal old boy alumni involvement • Relatively disassociated from main school culture and events • TRANSITIONAL CHANGE. Structure, policy, process TPS Boarding Context 27/09/2016 28
- 29. People How can our people enhance the “7 senses”? 27/09/2016 29
- 30. Programs & Processes How can we design and deliver programs that enhance the “7 senses”? 3027/09/2016
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- 36. Physical Infrastructure How can our physical infrastructure better promote the “7 senses”? “Community is not something you have, like pizza. Nor is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies ……. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other…….” James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUVz4nRmxn4&li st=PLwpfrY8bSkC6BYx7t0a246RNgRrgfIsyS Jaffray boys’ playlist
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- 38. So - what COULD you do? People Programs & Processes Physical Infrastructure Resources Sight Sound Smell Taste Touch Balance Intuition 27/09/2016 38
- 39. Parting thoughts 27/09/2016 39 “Life can be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards” Seren Kierkegaard
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- 42. Thank you & best wishes Chris Menagé cmmenage@gmail.com 0412 555 640 42 27/09/2016
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