I learned that my prin and I have similar ideas about the ideal future school. I also found myself not wanting to use any images of current schools, as I think they will look vastly different, and adapt to the learning to be done in them.
I also learned that the laptop is not the most fantastic tool for creating video. - inadequate graphics card.
Storyboarding was a challenge, because we had so many ideas about the future school, but wanted to also give the feel that it's ok to give it a go, see where new thinking takes you, imagine a place you would really like to be (ie in a plane, going to a tropical island, diving in) and that is the ideal school. Not sure if we are subconsciously wanting to go on holiday, but we wanted to show that you can be serious about education and less serious about how you get there.
The mistakes we made - well it will depend on the reception the video gets. We have made a slightly tongue in cheek video, because teaching can be heaps of fun - even more so if we are trying something new and then finding out the answers at the exact same moment as the children. It's like reading Roald Dahl for the first time with your kids! They see REAL EXCITEMENT AND REAL, UNPREPARED REACTIONS.
Always good to try something new Angela! What was the key message with the monkey? :)
ReplyDeleteThe monkey was just saying if I can do it, anyone can....a bit glib perhaps, but when some say Why? we say Why not? When people say "this should happen or they should change", we need to ask, Why should they change, because what they are doing works for them. We need to be asking how can we make changes in teacher practise so irresistible so they become the ANSWERS to the problem, not THE problem.
DeleteI get it....so true :)
DeletePerhaps the most valuable take-away Angela is your discovery of your shared view of the future with your Principal! That is a BIG bonus!
ReplyDeleteHi Alan, when you meet Chris Owen, you will understand even more. Now we just have to get the rest of the planet on board!!!
Delete#BastowLSDA Global??? ;)
DeleteThought bubble - the tropical island is used as a metaphor for a place everyone would like to go.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to go there! The only trouble with it is you need to let the public see just how good it is so they will want to go there too. The only way you can do that is to influence more people to preach the word out there! You have to be untiringly evangelical and just keep pumping out that message, not just through what you say but also through what you do! Let them see it in action in you as well. :)
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