Exploring Leadership

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1. The Characteristics of Leaders

Last week students at CCF6 brainstormed the characteristics that they thought good leaders demonstrate.

Here is a list showing the terms used as nouns and adjectives with their syntactical context.  Use this page to help you write your sentences in the next step:

The list is now in a Google Doc where students should write correct and meaningful sentences for each term.  Students can count-off or choose their favorite terms to write sentences about.  When the sentences are drafted, they will be reviewed for correctness and then rehearsed aloud to practice English pronunciations.

2. Finding Characteristics You Value

The class brainstormed 18 different — and important — characteristics for for leaders.  But no one in the world can be this good!  Please choose 4 – 6 that you think are the most important. You will use these to analyse different leaders from the past the present.  Let’s practice with one leader who has recently died.

Remembering Nelson Mandela

Watch the video and pay attention for examples of any of the 4 – 6 characteristics of a leader that you chose.

When the video is over (or we have watched enough), you will answer this question and support your answer using your 4 – 6 characteristics of a leader:

Was Nelson Mandela a Great Leader?

Claim Support Question

1. Make a claim about the topic

2. Identify support for your claim

3. Ask a question related to your claim

Some Crazy Cliff

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New Resource Site Launched

crazy cliffWhen I left the classroom in 1995 for a fellowship to develop things like WebQuests and Filamentality, one of the first projects I thought I’d work on was a comprehensive Web-based resource for The Catcher in the Rye.  Ok, so almost 20 years later I get around to it….

The site is (appropriately) called Some Crazy Cliff and focuses on an Understanding by Design approach to unit planning and classic WebQuest formatting that leverages great rich media to promote authentic and meaningful student learning.

Please take a look and send me any feedback.

The Purpose of Schooling?

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See Think Wonder

1. What do you see?

2. What do you think is going on?

3. What does it make you wonder?

Use this EtherPad to brainstorm on these questions.

Add your opinions to this pad

Go to the CCFPilot?

Northside Christian in December

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Hello Again!

Thanks to Stephen, Chris, the Teaching and Learning Committee and the ISV for giving us another day to work together.  Below is the agenda and related activities, but overall the main objective is to take your great Vision and begin to build a curriculum that can make it a reality.

Today’s Agenda:
  • Revisit your Vision: “Our Job” & “Successful Learners”
  • Tame the (Australian) Curriculum
  • The Edge-ucators Way – a model for Authentic Learning

Revisit your Vision

  • “Our Job” & “Successful Learners” – On Google Docs
  • Take the Poll

Tame the (Australian) Curriculum

The Edge-ucators Way – a model for Authentic Learning

How Real, Rich and Relevant Learning supports your goals:

Feedback on Achieving “Successful Learners”

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ISV Showcase and Wrap-up

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Hello one and all!

It’s been along time since we’ve seen one another, but this is a great day when we get to do two main things:

  1. Share our experiments integrating ICTs and authentic learning
  2. Look toward 2014 and discuss strategies to support successful change.

Update

Because it’s been a while since our last session, please update everyone on some of the things you’ve been up to in the interim.  Use the Comments feature of this post to do this, so then later people can reply to you to leave their feedback when we get into “Sharing” next.

Sharing

Below are links to things workshop participants have used or developed this year.  Please take time to look through each and then Leave a comment for the author.

Concurrent Activity: 2014 and Beyond: Making Personal Learning a Reality

Andrew
Ben
Gjulsime
Ian
Jasmine
Jo
Narelle
Penny
Sadia
Sonia
Taya

2014

Schoolwide
Personal

Resources

Here are some other resources people have found useful that they wanted to share.

Web 2.0
Apps

Review & Farewell

  • Debrief 2014
  • Reviewing Next Era Ed

A Day with Stella Maris

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 Welcome!

stella1Today is a full day of professional learning with the whole staff of Stella Maris College.  As the starting point for everything, we’ll see what people see as the Challenges they face.

Agenda

Here’s a list of the main points we’ll focus on for today:

  • Understanding the challenges we face
  • Defining how we see our job
  • Setting a clear, indisputable and shared vision of our goals for students.
  • Using technology to facilitate authentic, engaging and personalised learning
  • Considering what’s needed to revise the curriculum to support 1:1 Digital Learning

Activity #1: Your Greatest Challenges

Brainstorm (anonymously?) the greatest challenges of your job

stella-wordle

Activity #2: What is your Job?

  1. Work in your small groups to discuss this question.
  2. As a small group, compose one sentence that best captures your group’s thinking?
  3. One at a time each group will modify a compilation description:

What is your Job? One Sentence Essence

When you are not the “modifying group,” you will engage in Activity #3 below.

Activity #3 – Explore “Look to Learns”

While your colleagues are modifying the “One Sentence Essence” of your job, please explore the links below. After this “discover immersion” session, You will be asked the following questions:

  1. What are the key components of the activity format?
  2. What do you think the purpose of these activities are?
  3. What would be the educational value of such activities?
  • Also – Explore the latest Look to Learn’s in the Stream or Archive

Morning Tea

Activity 4 – Review & De-brief

Challenges

  • Challenges: Logistics or Learning?: Word Doc
  • Review – 20th vs 21st Century Schooling?
  • Presentation on Learning?

Our Job

  • Review the One Sentence Essence & its evolution.
  • Our Job: Teaching or developing successful Learners?

Activity 5: Our Mandated Job – Learning in the 21st Century

Presentation – How 1:1 Changes “School”

Melbourne Declaration

“The development of the Australian Curriculum will occur over three broad timeframes and is guided by two key documents: the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (pdf) and the Shape of the Australian Curriculum (pdf).”

from the opening paragraph on the Curriculum page of the ACARA Web site.

Validation from the Shape of the Australian Curriculum:

The curriculum development work of ACARA is guided by the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians, adopted by the Ministerial Council in December 2008. The Melbourne Declaration emphasises the importance of knowledge, skills and understanding of learning areas, general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities as the basis for a curriculum designed to support 21st century learning.

The Melbourne Declaration’s vision of “successful learners” (what would you add?)

Where’s the Teaching?

Activity 6 – Look to Learn

Resources

Look to Learn

Edge-ucators Way

  C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Northside Christian College – Day 2

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Welcome Back!

Today we will carry on from yesterday to refine our definition of Successful Learners and develop Look to Learn activities for units of work.

Years 5 – 12

  • Revisit Successful Learners to highlight and comment on different pedagogical strategies to achieve the vision.
  • Apply the contribution of Look to Learn activities.
  • Choose 2-3 to focus on first as a school.

The Edge-ucators Way

Tom will present the background and rationale for these approaches for staff consideration.

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students

Enhancing Years 5 – 12 Units of Work

Target aspects of developing “Successful Learners” in an upcoming unit of work – perhaps through including Look to Learn / Visible Thinking activities, using CEQ•ALL or problem-based learning (WebQuests).

Teaching and Learning Committee

Change Management / Michael Fullan

Background Documents

Learning to Lead Change

Prep – Year 4

“Successful Learners”

Classblog Samples – Edublog 2012 Winners

Stixy – post what you like and want to do

Hands-on with Schoology

Enhancing Units of Work

Target aspects of developing “Successful Learners” in an upcoming unit of work – perhaps through including Look to Learn / Visible Thinking activities, using CEQ•ALL or problem-based learning (WebQuests).

 

 

Working with Northside Christian College

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 Hello!

ncc2Now that I’m back from the US, I look forward to working with staff at Northside Christian College for 2 days of professional learning.

Agenda

Here’s an evolving list of the main points we’ll focus on for the two days:

  • Setting a clear, indisputable and shared vision of our goals for students.
  • Using technology to facilitate differentiated, personalised learning outcomes
  • Using formative analysis of student work to refine learning activities
  • Revising the curriculum to support 1:1 Digital Learning

Activity #1: Your Greatest Challenges

Activity #2: What is your Job?

Explore

While your colleagues are modifying the “One Sentence Essence” of your job, please explore the links below. You will be asked the following questions:

  1. What do you think the purpose of these activities are?
  2. What would be the educational value of such activities?
  3. What are the key components of the activity format?

Review the One Sentence Essence & its evolution.

Activity 3: Presentation – Learning in THIS era.

  • Challenges: Logistics or Learning?
  • Job – Teaching or developing Learners?

Activity 4: Owning the Vision

Melbourne Declaration

“The development of the Australian Curriculum will occur over three broad timeframes and is guided by two key documents: the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians (pdf) and the Shape of the Australian Curriculum (pdf).”

from the opening paragraph on the Curriculum page of the ACARA Web site.

Validation from the Shape of the Australian Curriculum:

The curriculum development work of ACARA is guided by the Melbourne Declaration
on Educational Goals for Young Australians, adopted by the Ministerial Council in
December 2008. The Melbourne Declaration emphasises the importance of knowledge,
skills and understanding of learning areas, general capabilities and cross-curriculum
priorities as the basis for a curriculum designed to support 21st century learning.

The Melbourne Declaration’s vision of “successful learners” (what would you add?)

Activity 5 – Look to Learn

Resources

Blogging – WordPress

 

C E Q • A LL / Seek all!

Self-managed Learning Framework for students