MLE Area Schools Conference Presentation

MLE

MODERN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

is transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual

Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding your Passion Changes everything

Open Spaces

Visibility

Agile Furniture

Collaborative Teaching

One Teach, One Observe:

One Teach, One Assist

Parallel Teaching

Station Teaching

Alternative Teaching

Team Teaching

Observing each other and analysing and

discussing afterwards.

One maintains primary responsibility, other

assists learners in need.

Two teachers, two groups of students, both

being taught the same thing.

Different content taught by different teachers,

students rotate around stations.

One teacher takes responsibility for a large

group while another conveys specialist

attention. ‘One brain, two bodies’ teachers teach the

same thing at the same time to the same

students.

“My Kids” to “Our Kids”

Changing of Relationships

Learner Centered Curriculum

Learner Agency

Knowledge Building

Curriculum

It isn't enough to see knowledge as an end in itself, to “fill” up students with existing knowledge, its what students can do

Jane Gilbert

Future Focused Curriculum

Future focus is about supporting learners to recognize that they have a stake in the future, and a role and responsibility as

NZ Curriculum Principles

Deprivatisation of Practice

Personalised

Individualised

Differentiated

TKAS Story

Ed Talks Channel

• The first step to considering modern learning

environments is to start with learning.

Area School’s Potential

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see how it can be done—

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden