Learning+at+Schools+2009

Learning at Schools 2009

__**Gradprofile**__
Kia ora, nau mai ki tenei pito o te ipurangi. This section is intended for those who attended the workshop 'Graduate Proflie' at the recent Learning@Schools conference held in Rotorua, 26 February 09. At a time where we are embarking on developing, creating, considering how and what we will do/have done in the development of a graduate profile and resulting curriculum - 'we' are our best resources. Can I invite you...us...to utilise this wikispace is a way of continuing our discussions, sharing thoughts, recording 'wonderings' and sharing developments, seeking advice, clarifications from each other.


 * Discussion points from today's session**

"Te Ahua o ā Tātau Akonga / Graduate Profile" Placing the child at the centre of all learning.

What is our understanding of the word "Graduate"?
 * To be ready for something else
 * To be a part of a learning programe from age 5 to 13
 * Kua tutuki pea tetahi mahi
 * Stages of learning
 * A progression of learning

What is our understanding of the word Profile
 * A description of what a person will look like
 * A set of indicators/outcomes/competencies/ideals/expectations
 * Becoming confident leaders
 * A baseline of standards

Last word strategy discussion

"Full potential"
 * Nurturing a child to be the best that they can be
 * Realising inherent capabilities

"Life long learning"
 * Supporting, enabling and empowering children to be independent learners
 * Providing our children with skills to be an independant learner who is capable of
 * Ensuring children have the disposition, the understanding the how to's of learning
 * Being able to learn, unlearn and relearn when you need to

"Academic success"
 * Experiencing success
 * Academic success will look very different from student to student, setting to setting

"Respectful"
 * Social literacy
 * Being able to demonstrate respect for others
 * Manaaki, tiaki
 * Respect is something that evolves, and develops
 * To develop empathy for others

Developing a Graduate Profile
 * School are now being asked to develop a Graduate Profile and a school based curriculum over the next two years
 * Where are some possible places to begin?
 * Prinicipal from school - East Coast, level 2 MM - process of development included:
 * Starting point - initial discussions with staff – brainstorming
 * Whanau consultation – group discussions, hui conducted a long similar lines as staff hui
 * Information was organised and analysed in terms of commonalities, connects, differences between information provided by both groups
 * Initial fear - 'what teacher and whanau think and wanted in terms of a graduate profile would be 'poles' apart. These fears where shortlived, analysis of information revealed that by in large whakaaro both groups were of similar thinking.
 * Student voice - Senior teachers are currently working with students to encourage their discussions and voice in the overall look and picture of this graduate profile
 * As a level 2 Maori medium setting - challenges


 * What have you done/considered/contemplated in terms of developing/thinking about a graduate profile since returning to kura?


 * Issues, concerns to date - and possible solutions?


 * Celebrations, woohooo, yeehaa! moments?


 * Resources, readings, links, things created, tips you want to share or ask about?