What’s your vision for schooling?

This week after our staff meeting I have been reflecting about the dialogue on what value we as teachers bring to the deeper learning our students need in the 21st century. We watched a pod cast of Richard Elmore saying that in fact through the dominance of our literal recall tasks we are sucking the learning from the student not really engaging them at all – let alone challenging them to think analysis or synthesise.  Now granted that Elmore is giving an American perspective – I believe the work here at Elsternwick is different – our reading curriculum from an early age teaches children to comprehend, to bring their knowledge of the world to understand the text not just simply decode. Our inquiry focused curriculum also has a process that not only engages student’s prior knowledge but challenges them to apply their learning.  Perhaps some of our challenges lie in shifting the community thus school cultures in not hankering for the past when things look different from their own experiences.  

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