At a recent All Faculty Meeting,
Andrew shared a video about the future of world, specifically looking at the
Fourth Revolution. How do we look at the future of the world and prepare our
students for it?
The faculty were asked to
consider what do we need to be doing
that we aren’t doing? The
answers given by the faculty fell into many different categories. Seventy-eight
percent of the answers fell within these these six:
- create ways to integrate the
content areas
- creating opportunities for
students to direct/personalize their own learning
- engage 21st century
skills to keep learning relevant
- use and
structure time differently
- modeling
the learning process, and our mission, values and vision
- develop
service learning experiences.
Among
many things that we might consider as we move toward our Building Futures Plan
for 2018-2021 is what we can do to address several of these ideas at once. I've
chosen three to focus on for this blog post.
Share in the comments
what might we do that would address all of these needs? What ideas do you have
for helping them become part of our learning culture here at AISC?
We will have opportunity in future blog posts to engage in conversations about other ideas that emerged from this activity.
Grade 5 has begun serious thinking and planning toward moving closer to the blue and orange circles above: creating interdisciplinary units and restructuring our time so that it works better for learning. The future is now!
ReplyDeleteWe could start with something like the "intersession" models and "ignite weeks" that are sometimes used in other schools -- suspending the traditional daily schedule for several days in a row to focus on interdisciplinary passion projects in small groups. If a PBL/Service model is the long-term focus, some experimentation before then is a way to build our collective experience with interdisciplinary collaboration and working with time differently.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas! Keep them coming!
ReplyDeleteWe're awfully stuck, as educators, on the 8:30-3:30, do some after school activity, catch up on the weekend, travel for a tournament, get grades in and reports done... But the times in my youth with the most impact was scouting and camping, the few months I was in a foreign country, and the paid internship I had my senior year. I feel like those experiences better prepared me for the experiences of college and later life -- though not perhaps directly preparing me academically. Integrated content areas is much of work for most of us. We're almost all stuck in a liberal arts program where we need good writing and communication skills, social awareness, the ability to analyze historical data and make inferences for the future. We get home an use fractions for our recipes while doing conversions to use the oven and then sit down on Sunday to look at our bills, check on our retirement accounts and lay out the budget for our vacation. Adulting hard.
ReplyDeleteOh! That's a great blog post idea - "What experiences in your youth impacted you the most?" And what can we learn from those.
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