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Milton Oct 26 Youth Forum PD
Milton Action Projects Forum –October 26, 2015
Pamela Gibson's notes posted under her name label by Stan
Session 1 –Moving toward Action (9:45 10:45)
• Welcome/Intros –icebreaker: ‘Meet and Share’ –meet someone and share one concern (school/local/provincial) move on –then share something positive (school/local/provincial)
• Skills for the 21st century –How does these skills inform our teaching practice? talk –groups of 3
• Clubs to class: Students to Citizens: Involving all students –KBC: “As classroom teachers how can we expose the most students to Action Projects? (Moving from clubs to class curriculum)
• Opportunities just outside the door –Walkabout to locate curriculum opportunities Asking Questions –promoting student questions as the doorway to Inquiry
• Mind mapping (or other Graphic Organizer) /Sharing –What are your ‘Take Aways” from this session
Session 2 –Pieces of the Puzzle (11:00-12:00)
• Conventional to Transformational practice –completing the T-Chart –Where are you on the continuum? (one characteristic at a time) How important is each of these? -4 corners activity –speak to your position –1. not, 2. somewhat, 3. very, 4. critical
• DOTS –overview, concentrate on ‘Acting on Learning/Community Partnerships’- What have you done or seen others do? –(table groups) -share a story of note
• Openness to Changing Practice – introduce Authentic Inquiry/Integration –pitch for further Institutes to explore these –‘Elements and Components of Experiential, Inquiry based learning’
• KBC –“What does it take to make the Shift in Practice?”
• Video –“Kids against road salt”
Session 3 –Planning for Action (12:45-1:45)
• Acting on learning as a starting Point –how to move toward involving the other DOTS strategies by using Complex Action projects ( “Action Project Continuum”)
• “Redesign an Existing Project” –What have you done and what could you change? (in 2’s)
• Planning for Action – with same grade or same school colleagues and using Action Recipe Cards as well as Skills for the 21st Century, plan an more complex Action Project
• Supporting Websites –exploring R4R, Step Outside for Learning, Journey North etc. (LSF)
Session 4 –Planning with Students (2:15-2:30)
• Co-Planning with Students
• *Reminders:*pitch institutes, encourage connecting with each other, taking charge of your own PD after this session, attending Institutes on Authentic Inquiry
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Maynooth -Maynooth was a one day Institute centred around 22 kindergarten teachers from the Hastings Board north of Bancroft.We developed the day around their questions about how to use inquiry inside and outside and how to move practice toward the use of transformative pedagogies. They were eager to share what they had done and to ask questions of each other. They were particularly interested in Forest Play and how that could result in curriculum learning. They were concerned that their grade 1 and 2 colleagues were finding it difficult to adopt inquiry and other transformative pedagogies because they felt constricted by reading/writing/math expectations. I think we need to develop an institute for primary teachers that specifically addresses this 'impasse'.
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