Would you like to Contribute to our Cluster Professional Learning?

Maungaraki School is part of a cluster of full primary schools in our area who are working together in a "Learning and Change Network."  Leaders from within this network are currently putting together a plan to support each other in our professional learning.  Throughout this year, Janet Evans has been consulting with a group of students, teachers and parents to identify priority areas for our future development as a school and as a cluster.

The context that we are currently working in relates to creating "Innovative Learning Environments."  In a few weeks, a group of school leaders from the wider Wellington area will be getting together to discuss their learning and change initiatives.  As part of this, a blog has been created to gather views on what our students, parents, educators and wider community members think an Innovative Learning Environment might look like in New Zealand schools.  We would love to include the views of the Maungaraki community in this blog, if you would like to contribute you will find the link here:

Central South Learning and Change Network ILE

If you would like to research some of the international thinking about innovative Learning Environments you might want to visit these sites:

http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/innovativelearningenvironments.htm

http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/The%20ILE%20project.pdf http://elearning.tki.org.nz/Technologies/Learning-spaces http://www.minedu.govt.nz/NZEducation/EducationPolicies/Schools/PropertyToolBox/StateSchools/Design/ModernLearningEnvironment.aspx http://www.core-ed.org/thought-leadership/white-papers/modern-learning-environments