I guess we have always been on this journey...of growth mindset...always seeking ways to improve our practice and be the best we can for the children in our care.
Active in our search for new knowledge, new ideas and new resources. Reflective. Confident to trial initiatives, different ways of doing things. Knowing there must be a better way to open the curriculum to the kids in our charge.
The '21st' century calls for a new approach. The ever changing environment our kids are moving into calls for a different skill set. As parents/teachers, what do we want for our kids as they move into teenage-hood and adult-hood? What will the world look like when they finally get there? What will they need to know to be successful, positive, effective citizens?
This journey started with PD - unpacking our vision (again) with the desire to become a 'vision driven' school, designing visuals full of symbolism, a new model of learning, a cross-competency approach to the key competencies...re-writing our curriculum to fit our new ideas of learning and teaching.
From this came the 'learning to learn' team - passionate volunteers who were prepared to research, read, debate - and grow their own pedagogical knowledge.
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