Future focused schools workshop
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This document summarizes an online workshop about building future-focused schools. The workshop aims to help participants identify principles for building future-focused schools, realize a future-focused approach through aligning school strategies and practices, and lead their school community to provide relevant, future-focused learning. During the workshop, participants discuss topics like the skills students will need for their future lives and careers, challenges facing education, and how to make schools more focused on preparing students for an uncertain future.
Future focused schools workshop
- 1. Future Focused Schools Online Workshop - 5 May 2020 Derek Wenmoth @dwenmoth #futurefocused
- 2. What we’d like to achieve… By the end of the workshop you will… identify principles of building future-focused schoolsIdentify realise a future-focused school through the alignment of school-wide strategies, policies and practicesRealise courageously lead your school community to provide future focused, relevant learning programmes.Lead
- 3. Group Session One • What comes to your mind when you hear the term ‘future focused’? • How does it make you feel?
- 4. Future Shock “Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” • Alvin Toffler (1970)
- 6. Questions to guide us… Source: https://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/taking-future-focus-in-education.pdf How will humanity address the “wicked problems” of the 21st century? FOCUS: Preparing young people and communities to deal with “future- focused issues” How do we think education will help them in their future lives? What kind of people do we hope they will be? FOCUS: Thinking about students in their future lives What kinds of learning will they need to be able to address these challenges? What does this mean for teachers/teaching as a profession? What does this mean for schools’ relationships to the community? What should the future of schooling, teaching curriculum look like? What role should schooling play in meeting wider societal purposes in the 21st century? Has this changed? Should it change?
- 7. Future Focus issues • What are the big issues facing our world currently? • What are the things we see becoming issues into the future? How will humanity address the “wicked problems” of the 21st century? FOCUS: Preparing young people and communities to deal with “future- focused issues” 1
- 8. Global challenges… • Food supply • Water • Environment • War, terrorism and refugees • Technology, AI, robots • Equity • Access to education • Super-diversity • Human rights • Poverty • Religious intolerance • Child Poverty • Threats to biodiversity • Energy 1
- 9. Discuss • Are any of these issues addressed in the curriculum in your school? • How? https://www.needpix.com/photo/547083/group-chat-icon-website-internet-web-discussion-website-icons-computer 1
- 10. Future lives of students? How do we think education will help them in their future lives? What kind of people do we hope they will be? FOCUS: Thinking about students in their future lives Picture from a reading book for the primary school (8 year olds) in Sweden, 1903 2
- 11. Future of work BOYS GIRLS 1. Engineer 2. Business manager 3. Doctor 4. ICT professional 5. Sportsman 6. Teacher 7. Police officer 8. Mechanic 9. Lawyer 10. Architect 1. Doctor 2. Teacher 3. Business manager 4. Lawyer 5. Nurse/midwife 6. Psychologist 7. Designer 8. Veterinarian 9. Police officer 10. Architect According to the OECD the top ten career aspirations for 15 year olds are: https://wenmoth.net/2020/01/26/can-we-plan-our-careers/ 2
- 12. What skills? http://educatingforthefuture.economist.com/# • Interdisciplinary skills • Creative and analytical skills • Entrepreneurial skills • Leadership skills • Digital and technical skills • Global awareness and civic education 2
- 13. Future Learning? • Global Citizenship skills • Innovation and creativity skills • Technology Skills • Interpersonal Skills • Personalised and self-paced learning • Accessible and inclusive learning • Problem-based and collaborative learning • Lifelong and student-driven learning What kinds of learning will they need to be able to address these challenges? https://www.weforum.org/reports/schools-of-the-future-defining-new-models-of-education-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution 3
- 14. Discuss • Which of the skills on this list do you believe need to be cultivated as a priority? Why? https://www.needpix.com/photo/547083/group-chat-icon-website-internet-web-discussion-website-icons-computer 3
- 15. Education 4.0 framework: • Shifting Learning Content – moving from ‘delivering’ content, to involving learners in discovering, creating and sharing content as they become both productive contributors of future economies and responsible and active citizens in future societies, and… • Shifting Learning Experiences – creating learning eco-systems that are more personalised, self-paced, accessible and inclusive, problem based and collaborative. https://www.weforum.org/reports/schools-of-the-future-defining-new-models-of-education-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution 4 What should the future of schooling, teaching curriculum look like?
- 16. Source: https://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/taking-future-focus-in-education.pdf 4 • Which of these future focused themes appear in your school? • Which of the approaches to working with them do you take?
- 17. Challenges in education Structures: • Timetables, school day • Classes, subjects, age- based groupings • Assessment/exams • Buildings • Role of teacher, hierarchies • Etc. Processes: • What to teach • How to teach • Personalisation, diversity • Parent/whānau engagement • Reporting on progress • Role of technology, AI • Etc. Purpose: • Future work vs future lives • Economic units vs humans • Standardisation vs diversity • Transfer vs construction • Etc. 4
- 18. Group Session Two If you had the chance to ‘start fresh’ with a new school, choose one action in each area you’d make a priority: – New Structures? (specify) – New Processes? (specify) – New Purpose? (specify) Discuss and be prepared to report back to the whole group. 4
- 19. Schools and society Taking an ‘ecosystem’ view of society and our communities. What does this mean for schools’ relationships to the community? What does this mean for teachers/teaching as a profession? What role should schooling play in meeting wider societal purposes in the 21st century? Has this changed? Should it change? 4
- 20. In their future our learners will… • need to know stuff we can hardly guess today • always need to know if the facts they've dredged up are accurate and truthful • need to know how to regularly clean up their electronic trail • need to know enough to make more complicated medical choices • have to face the fact that technology favours some and eclipses others • be forced to take on moral questions no human has ever faced 4
- 21. Group Activity Three • Check out the vison and mission statements: https://padlet.com/derek51/rkr27gabmvnr5g5 • Where is the focus of each? – Academic excellence? – Personal potential? – Preparation as future citizens? – Developing change makers? 4
- 22. Mission Statements A mission statement should act like a mirror, clarifying for everyone where the school is, and where it’s going. And for that to happen, it has to be dynamic and organic. Changing endlessly—responding to changing tones, values, and social needs. Its tenets should be reflected in curriculum, assessment, and instruction, projects, technology, and learning artefacts. 4
- 23. Challenge On return to you school/class context, consider how the following reflect a future focused view: • Curriculum • Assessment • Pedagogical approach • Use of technology What might you need to change? How? 4
- 24. Questions to guide us… Source: https://www.nzcer.org.nz/system/files/taking-future-focus-in-education.pdf How will humanity address the “wicked problems” of the 21st century? FOCUS: Preparing young people and communities to deal with “future- focused issues” How do we think education will help them in their future lives? What kind of people do we hope they will be? FOCUS: Thinking about students in their future lives What kinds of learning will they need to be able to address these challenges? What does this mean for teachers/teaching as a profession? What does this mean for schools’ relationships to the community? What should the future of schooling, teaching curriculum look like? What role should schooling play in meeting wider societal purposes in the 21st century? Has this changed? Should it change? 1 2 3 4 5
- 25. Two essential capabilities for the future focused leader and teacher Be a learner Read, share, read more… share more… Try stuff, make mistakes, try again… Reflect critically Be appreciative Have fun Relax! Laugh more! Be present!
- 26. How did we go? To what extent do you feel the workshop has enabled you to… identify principles of building future-focused schoolsIdentify realise a future-focused school through the alignment of school-wide strategies, policies and practicesRealise courageously lead your school community to provide future focused, relevant learning programmes.Lead