Misbehaving Appropriately - A Blueprint for Teaching in the 21st C Our Way, Island Bay: A Curriculum for the 21st Century

Keynote - Perry Rush

The Learning Purpose in the 21C - we need a shared sense of purpose as individuals

• to enable the individual to be fulfilled to their satisfaction - cater to individuals
• diversity in our students
• if we are compelling students to come to school it needs to be an experience worthy of the time they spend at school
• to build capability to be successful in the 21C knowledge economy
• Catching the Knowledge Wave - Jane Gilbert
• The new meaning of knowledge
• is a process not a thing
• does things
• happens in teams not individuals
• develops in the now when it is needed
• develops to be replaced not stored
• just in time, not just in case
• Minds are
• resources - that can be connected to other resources in order to generate new knowledge
• to enable deep learning
• The difference in quality of inquiry is the teacher 
• Student initiative with deep 
• to grow students that are able to question the status quo and act on their beliefs
• Be quiet and listen to the kids

NZ Curriculum

• Student learning at the centre, not coverage
• Designed to reduce compliance and simplify requirements - essence statements
• Emphasis on local meaning ... what is important in your community
• Participatory view of learning... gaining knowledge is not enough... you need to be able to do things with what you know
• More generic,,, essence statements, reduced AO's...increased professional judgment
• Demands vision... is a significant shift from what we have known

• The Hidden Lives of Learners - Graham Nuthall
• most children's significant learning experiences were self selected or self generate even in traditional classroons
• need to develop clarity about how we learn - philosophy, culture, practice

21C Pedagogies the Grow Deeper Learning

• Conceptual curriculum
• Teaching for Understanding as opposed to knowledge acquisition
• Project Zero, Harvard University - http://www.pz.harvard.edu/
• Teaching by design
• Inquiry based learning
• its not about the inquiry model its about the teaching of the inquiry model

Personalised Learning 

• Discovery time
• Passion Projects
• Personal inquiry prompted by shared inquiry
• Children teaching children
• Writer's notebook