9. Needs
• Different times - different needs
• Needs: cooperation, flexibility, group/teamwork. time management
• Current organisation does not support this
11. Differences
19th Century clerk
• Copy down
• Listening to teacher
• Accepting everything
• Working alone
• Sitting still
• Remember facts
• Follow instructions
• Being tested
21st Century explorer
• Create ideas
• Discuss with peers
• Question things
• Working with others
• Being active
• Imagine solutions
• Show initiative
• Self-evaluation
12. How can we prepare our kids for
this different world, if adults
expect to see the same things in
schools (as over the last 100
years)?
21. What will you see in a FLE?
• Group of students (60 - 90)
• Group of teachers (3)
• Flexible learning programme
• Responsive to student needs
• Different approach to learning
(depending on level)
• Helpful things: big space,
furniture, technology
22. What are the benefits?
• Better results (as seen before)
• Focus on student needs
• Better use of time
• Better use of teacher strengths
• Kids are more engaged, more productive, happier
• Skills for the real world (self management, flexible, organise)
• Specialised programmes
25. • Navigator Centre (Intermediate Focus)
• Management Team: Study Course
• Visited other schools
• Staff development
• Developing frameworks of expectations
• Started trialling some aspects in different parts of the
school
27. • Reorganise the school into Pods of 3/4 classes in 2015
• Pod teachers work together more and more
• Move to new way of organising teaching
• Teachers continue their Professional Development
• Goal: By 2016 have FLE’s fully operational across the
school
