Meeting 1: 29-05-14

1. Meeting 1: 29-05-14 Meeting Outcomes: • Have recapped over the strategic direction of the third teacher project • Have a shared understanding of the vision and principles that under the third teacher project • Staff have a clearer view of their position of participation with the third teacher project

2. An Environment for Learning

3. Third Teacher Project Remake your classroom Part 1 “How might we create engaging learning spaces with all members of the School community?”

4. “How might we create engaging learning spaces with all members of the School community?”

5. Post-It Note Activity What would you like our teaching and learning environment to look and feel like in the future?

6. Post-It Note Activity What makes an ideal environment for learning?

7. Post-It Note Activity What would you like our teaching and learning environment to look and feel like in the future? What makes an ideal environment for learning?

8. Some positions and questions posed from Learning Scan Survey: • How does St Pauls enable its staff and students to personally identify as belonging to and making what is St Paul’s? • How do staff and students associate with the spaces and the environments of St Paul’s? How can they contribute to the humanising and personification of spaces and place within the school? • In what way can the staff and students create or contribute to the creation of aesthetic forms that become part of the environment and history of the school? Do students value the heritage of the place that they occupy? How can students and staff create meaningfully an environment that they want to pass on to the next generation of staff and students? Does each discipline area sing its respect to the beauty of the subject/discipline? • Will administration support review, trial and change of the environment – thus supporting the notion of the environment as the third teacher? • Can St Paul’s accept aesthetic considerations as part of any and all future developments? Can St Paul’s look with new glasses at the existing environments within and assist in the rebranding of spaces and places to include aesthetics? • To create one’s own story one must have a pen and paper, know how to use them and be allowed to scribble and scrawl along the way… How do we see students at St Paul’s? Are they rich, strong, capable and do they have a voice that will affect the creation of rich learning environments where they have a strong sense of belonging and ownership.

9. Creation of a Third Teacher Project Team • Proposal: Following the principles and honouring the Design Thinking/Maker Movement of The Third Teacher Initiative (The Third Teacher +) and the Reggio philosophy of ‘environment as third teacher’, we propose the creation of a ‘Third Teacher Project’ consultancy and task force. The prime objective of this group would be to support the school (staff and students) in the creation of dynamic, engaging and interactive learning spaces (classrooms and other indoor spaces, outdoor environments etc.) There are several projects currently under construction/planning: Design Tech Lab 4, Science Room S2, the ELC and the I-Centre/Spiritual Home of Big History. This proposal seeks to streamline the diverse array of projects into a more coherent process and address the issues shown above.

10. Processes and Principles: • Expressions of interest are called for in late Term 4 2013/Early Term 1 2014 for colleagues to be part of this VOLUNTARY consultancy/task force • The 3TP team establish a values/mission statement and the collaborative norms/principles they will operate under • The team meet at mutually agreed times to discuss, evaluate, review or brainstorm and draw up timelines, inventory’s, resources etc.

11. Projects: Application, Planning, Recording, Resourcing and Reviewing: • Interested teachers, teams of teachers or Learning Areas submit an expression of interest and carefully document (using a 3TP pro-forma) their proposal including timeframe (permanent, temporary (term/semester focus), anticipated length of time to complete the transformation, approximate costs and the value it will add in terms of enhancing teaching and learning • The 3TP team examine the proposal and assign a project manager (s) to collaborate with the proposer in refining (costing, re-shaping etc.) the application. There will be a ‘ceiling’ budget to encourage Learning Areas to contribute and support colleagues wish to innovate. It will also dispel the mindset that finances are the solution. Moreover, it encourages imagination/creativity. • The proposal is sent to T+L for feedback. A timeline is drawn up, resources allocated and goals set. • The project commences but is logged/filmed/recorded to be part of a portfolio of case studies to support other applications. • Upon completion, there is a formal handover of the room/space and celebration. The Project Manager gives a final report to T+L. Participants also complete a reflection to capture the benefits/obstacles of the project to round the review.

12. Ladder of Participation • Establishing values/mission statement • Regular meeting times • Create an application process for teachers/teaching teams/learning areas to request support with reimagining learning spaces • Discuss, evaluate, review applications, drawing up timelines, inventory’s resources • Project managers • Logging of project to become a case study --------------------------------------------------------------------- • Approaching the learning environment at a classroom/learning area level • Adopting third teacher principles to your teaching and planning • Reading and contributing to the discussions on the 3TP Wiki Position of Engagement Position of Interest

13. Where do we go from here? • Consider you position of participation • When and how often should we meet? This term: • What is our vision and core values that will operate under? • What would the application process look like? Remake your class Final Part