Mandy Heim from Elim Christian College
Session Notes
Who Owns the Learning
Alan November @globalearner
If you get the start of the year right, you have so much more potential to get the rest of the year right.
The kids never felt welcomed in the classrooms where the teaching was taking place and so they 'failed' on what they were expected to achieve. No sense of self-worth. Never acknowledged as a person - Mandy's sons' experiences.
Something has to change - the start of the year has to change
How can you love people if you don't start off by loving the child
Love God, Love People
Allan Peachey
Colin Prentice
Welcome the student - Maxwell: Doesn't matter how much you know until they know how much you care. - Yes! That's what I have in my classroom too. :) It doesn't matter if you like the kid or not.
Tell the story. Encourage the buy in; the personal human warmth.
If there's no passion, no real commitment to the learner at the beginning of the year, the rest of year is going to be really difficult.
The first few days concept - very first day:
Balloons, welcome sign, photos from last year and holidays if the kids have posted online
First day welcome written by the kids - harsh protocol moved back a bit - not there on day one.Go to different classes and hear the same messages, but NOT subject specific. About learning - goals, "I matter", not "I have an assessment due in 9 weeks".
Aim for next year is to get every staff member to introduce yourself in 20 seconds - QR codes
Empowering the students to know they own the learning process because relationships matter most.
Introduce the personality, introduce the person
Alan November - the First Five Days
Entry ways into 'you' - build the connection
In order to be successful, start with small steps - introduce with 20% to start with.
15 seconds
Short and impacting
Keep it real
Introduce to kids via video
Let them see the mistakes
When we present a polished performance the kids feel so much pressure to perform.
Alan November
Who Owns the Learning
Digital Learning Farm
Scribe
Tutorial designer
Collaborator
Students have different roles because we've got to collaborate and involve the kids
First Few Days
1. Welcoming is the most important thing day 1.
Shift to getting to know each other - how do you learn? What are your goals? What do you want to achieve this year? NOT a focus on assessment.
2. More learning, more connections - put the person at the front before introducing the academic content
One chance to make one impression - create challenging engaging learning centre
Welcome student - sell self - sell subjects
If students don't get given opportunities to lead, how will the learn to?
All the students arrive at one place to start with
Students put into their year groups then rotation stations started
Based on their perceptions about you, there's a relationship there that already exists without you knowing.
having one person giving the same message to the whole year group makes it all consistent - people with passions can champion the thing they're championing.
eg one person tells all the groups of kids about learning to learn
Learning Mentors
Every member of staff from principal pa to library assisstant has a group of kids to do stuff with
How would I introduce myself in 10seconds?
How would I let the students know how they can learn in my subject?
How do we reach this generation who listens with their eyes?
Divide the class up and have more 1to1 connections
There are about 40% of their kids who can go a week and not be talked to by a teacher - and this is WITH form teachers
Learning mentor sessions
Relationships matter most
If you ask the right question, you might unlock the right answer
So what if you fail?
Relationships matter most
Commitment to helping students know that they matter most
If we don't invest in the individual before content, what are we churning out? Statistics.
Learning Mentor sessions - 20 minutes with 12-15 students.
If you can't talk to me - write it down.
What do you do with your time?
Introduce your personality before your professional status
Evaluation of the 1st few days of school year
Real-time proper evaluation
Edmodo is like facebook
Upload and make available your resources very quickly
Heavens Fall
The students can invite others to look at their contributions
Good Reads - lists to find PRR books.
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