Transforming learning

1. Transforming learning What sort of learners and learning are we aiming for? Pete Bains 18/01/10

2. 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

3. 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

4. Schools today ‘Today’s 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’

5. 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

6. Organisations for learning Institutions for schooling • 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 • 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

7. 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

8. Camden Campus for Learning Every Child Matters Challenge and engagement Education fit for C21 Raise achievement for all Close attainment gaps Personalised learning 14-19 entitlement High quality teaching and learning New KS3 curriculum New pedagogies Development of skills New technologies Children’s 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 Widercommunity CLC Multi-agency teams Out of school learning Team around the child Parents and carers Adult & community education Partnership Specialisms/ hubs of expertise Efficiency and value for money Collaboration Inclusive Integration and coherence