FORUM: One word to define your school | An Enabling e-Learning event (11 Feb - 3 Mar 2016)
In the beginning of his uLearn15 keynote address, Grant Lichtman asks,
What's that one word that describes what you want the rest of your school year to be like? ... What is that one word that describes what you want your school to reek of?
View the keynote here -- On the road: Keys to successful school innovation in times of change
As we're very early into the school year, it's a great opportunity to consider your one word for your school.
What do you want your students and the visitors to your school to notice, to experience, to recognise when they are on site?
Share your one word below.
You might also like to share how you might go about making that happen in your school by getting your colleagues and your students on board with the idea.
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- Kerri Thompson (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 3:06pm ()
It is easy to choose ONE (TWO) words that describe what I want for the rest of my school year... I blogged about it here ... "Pursuing Punk" is my focus. This incorporates a few concepts... activating the demand for change, encouraging collaborative expertise, and continuing to build a 'punk attitude' in my learners...learners with a growth mindset who attack challenges like kicking over bins!!!
I want my classroom to be learner-centered. One of our mantras is "My voice is important". After 2 weeks my learners are beginning to see that our classroom is about THEM... they are encouraged to 'learn their way'.
What I would like for the rest of the school is different as we are all at our own stages of 'change'. My Principal has asked for this ... to go from 'good' to 'great'. I think there is a LOT of changes which need to occur for this to be fulfilled. My ONE WORD (no I can't do it in one...TWO WORDS) for the rest of the school would be EMBRACE CHANGE.
Thanks Nathaniel for giving me the opportunity to contribute:)
- Richard McLaren (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 3:37pm ()
Success!
Currently working to remove any barriers that our IT systems are throwing up for people!
- Melanie Matthews (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 8:43pm ()
Feels like whanau and reeks of whanaungatanga without a doubt.
To make things happen you need to model it, believe in it, never give up on it and trust it.
Great way to start the year.
- Cyndi Kruijer (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 9:25pm ()
Adventure
About to embark on a year teaching Korean students in Seoul at the NZ Centre of Education and Culture. What I am going to experience is cultural differences and looking forward to it!
Danielle Myburgh (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 9:44pm ()embracing-challenge
A hyphen makes it one word right?
- Annemarie Hyde (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 9:46pm ()
Growth.
I want everyone to own their learning needs and develop the learning dispositions to see these happen. We need a culture that embraces individual learning needs for students and teachers alike.
- Leanne Stubbing (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 9:52pm ()
Playful.
Play with ideas, let my students learn through play, let my students design games to play, make sure that work has play in it too. Play with words when writing, understand the playful nature of words that we read, play with numbers, play with science, play music, play drama games, play with colour, texture... the list goes on.
I keep mentioning it in all my conversations with my colleagues and with my students. I can link most things to the notion of play.
- Sonya Van Schaijik (View all users posts) 11 Feb 2016 9:57pm ()
whānaungatanga. http://sonyavanschaijik.com/2015/10/31/whanaungatanga/
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