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A Modern Learning Environment at Ladbrooks School. Sharing and Thinking Collaboratively. To begin, sit back. … and enjoy Ken Robinson’s thoughts. Some questions around our beliefs. What are our beliefs about the nature of our learners?
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A Modern Learning Environment at Ladbrooks School Sharing and Thinking Collaboratively
To begin, sit back... … and enjoy Ken Robinson’s thoughts
Some questions around our beliefs... • What are our beliefs about the nature of our learners? • What are our beliefs around the attributes our learners need now and for the future?
Collaborative teaching? • We will start with the BLUE HAT to frame our thinking • We will share some of our thoughts using the 6 Thinking Hats • Following this, you will be involved in recording your thoughts and ideas under the headings of red, yellow, black and green hats • We will share these ideas at the end as part of our discussion
What is a Modern Learning Environment? (MLE) • Physical environments that support the needs of a modern learner • They tend to have increased flexibility, openness and a greater access to resources • Teacher - student ratios are reduced • Far greater opportunities for collaboration student(s) to student(s), teacher(s) to student(s)
Collaborative teaching? • Several teachers with many children • Often multi-level and various age groups • Can be in one space, MLE or in traditional class set up • All teachers are responsible for all learners ** • Individual needs are catered for effectively • Teacher expertise exponentially increased
Collaborative teaching? • Excitement - It could really revitalise our practice and learning for the children. • Sadness - Some of the neat things we do currently may change • Fear - What will this look like?
Collaborative teaching? • Supports strength-based teaching • When there is one teacher, the learning is often serial When there is a team, it is parallel and learning is faster • Additional possibilities for Gifted and Talented and remedial attention • Increased connectivity between students and staff • Teachers have told us they wouldn’t want to teach any other way
The TOROA environment... • Will students feel overwhelmed? • How will siblings in the same learning community be accommodated? • How will children’s social groupings be affected? • Will it be noisy? • How will the ages and stages be catered for? • If I have an issue, who will I talk to?
The possibilities! • We could do a arts/language rotation • We could involve families in more formalised before- school word reading, spelling and brick testing routines • We could use the library and Weka as quiet break-out spaces • Cooking would be easy - we’d have the kitchen • The ‘spare’ classrooms could be set up for art or music or PMP
Sharing our thoughts... Key thoughts...