Templestowe College
Student Templestowe consultancy - students are working for the school on a paid basis.
Students are the ones in control of their learning. Teachers need to relinquish control.
What's honored in your school? Trophies, names on a board? Who's that celebrating?
Free range/supported home learning.
"Students have far more capacity than we give them credit for."
In team meetings teachers sit around and go through kids pictures. They talk about each kid and how they are going socially, emotionally and academically.
"Practice makes permanent" - If you're practicing an imperfection then you're going to make the imperfection permanent.
To become an expert you need to work on something for 10000 hours.
TC lets students choose their own Whanau teacher. If they don't like them they can swap.
TC won't run a camp unless they have a student organiser. What for us is a nightmare, for them is a learning opportunity.
Each teacher has a known area of expertise where students can go to a bank of experts to get help.
Their projects don't link to VCE, they just have a portfolio of learning - no registered achievement from it.
The students get VCE through "normal" subjects (english, maths, science).
You don't know what you don't know. How do they spark a wide range of interests in their students?
Students are their own project managers, but teachers are their programme managers.
Question: Why do schools in NZ only have one student representative on the board? Why not 4 or 5? Why not have it run by students?
What other committee's/jobs around the school could be run by students?
Students are the ones in control of their learning. Teachers need to relinquish control.
What's honored in your school? Trophies, names on a board? Who's that celebrating?
Book: Martin Ford, Rise of the robots.Templestowe College's model of education:
Free range/supported home learning.
"Students have far more capacity than we give them credit for."
In team meetings teachers sit around and go through kids pictures. They talk about each kid and how they are going socially, emotionally and academically.
"Practice makes permanent" - If you're practicing an imperfection then you're going to make the imperfection permanent.
To become an expert you need to work on something for 10000 hours.
Book: Alfie Kohn, The Homework Myth.
TC lets students choose their own Whanau teacher. If they don't like them they can swap.
TC won't run a camp unless they have a student organiser. What for us is a nightmare, for them is a learning opportunity.
Each teacher has a known area of expertise where students can go to a bank of experts to get help.
Their projects don't link to VCE, they just have a portfolio of learning - no registered achievement from it.
The students get VCE through "normal" subjects (english, maths, science).
You don't know what you don't know. How do they spark a wide range of interests in their students?
Students are their own project managers, but teachers are their programme managers.
Question: Why do schools in NZ only have one student representative on the board? Why not 4 or 5? Why not have it run by students?
What other committee's/jobs around the school could be run by students?
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