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Sir Ken Robinson Talks about Creativity and Education | Ed Talks: educators talk about learning | Kelston Girls’ College: coherent curriculum integration | Michael Fullan | Jeremy Kedian | Jeremy Kedian | Wellington High School – Tukutahi | Southland Girls High - for all the right reasons | Integrating the curriculum at Opunake Primary | Te Awamutu - You have a message | Mary Chamberlain: Learning’s the Thing | Dr Jane Gilbert: Knowledge, the disciplines and learning in the digital age | Teachers TV
Sir Ken Robinson Talks about Creativity and Education
Sir Ken Robinson is a world-renowned speaker, author, and consultant on creativity, education, and business. He presented at the 2007 International Confederation of Principals Conference in Auckland. In this Ted.com presentation he wonders whether schools kill creativity.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Ed Talks: educators talk about learning
EDTalks is a growing collection of videos featuring New Zealand and International educators talking about learning. EDTalks is Core Education’s contribution to teachers’ professional learning providing a free database of short video interviews with leading educators and thinkers.
http://www.edtalks.org/
Kelston Girls’ College: coherent curriculum integration
This "slice of action" from Auckland features Team Solutions' leadership and management facilitators and the principal and staff from Kelston Girls' College who highlight the need to integrate the elements of The New Zealand Curriculum coherently.
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/support_for_schools/100_sector_leader_regional_stories/auckland_and_northland_regional_story
Dr Jane Gilbert: Knowledge, the disciplines and learning in the digital age
Dr Jane Gilbert from NZCER poses some questions and challenges for education in the 21st century in a keynote address at the ULearn Conference in 2006 (duration 60 minutes).
http://www.breezeserver.co.nz/digitalage/
Mary Chamberlain: Learning’s the Thing
Presentation by Mary Chamberlain, Ministry of Education, on the key competencies at Learning@School 2008 (duration 49 minutes).
http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/modules/page/page.php?space_key=468&module_key=66323&link_key=48977&group_key=&message=Your+page+has+been+modified
Te Awamutu - You have a message
This 12 minute video is the result of much discussion, planning, filming and editing by 27 Year 6 to 13 students from the Rosetown Learning Community who have a clear message for their teachers and community about how they learn and what they want from school.
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/digital_stories/school_stories/te_awamutu_you_have_a_message
Integrating the curriculum at Opunake Primary
Four years ago the Opunake School Board of Trustees began a consultation process with the community, which resulted in a strong mandate from the community to make changes at the school. Together the board, staff and community wanted to create a vision for the school with meaningful goals, where students and teachers would be immersed in purposeful learning, and which would, where possible, involve the whole community. Visit this site to see and hear the story of this journey (duration: 8.52 minutes).
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/digital_stories/school_stories/integrating_the_curriculum_at_opunake_primary
Southland Girls High - for all the right reasons
In 2005 Southland Girls’ High School became New Zealand’s first Year 7-13 state girls' secondary school when Years 7 and 8 students were integrated into all five secondary schools in Invercargill.
The Southland Girls’ team used this opportunity to research then implement a new approach to the traditional Year 7 and 8 Intermediate School. They decided to create an inclusive and integrated whole school environment. This philosophy, which began as a vision for the junior school, evolved and became part of the whole school development. Visit this site to see and hear the story of this journey (duration: 8.28 minutes).
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/digital_stories/school_stories/southland_girls_high_for_all_the_right_reasons
Wellington High School – Tukutahi
In this digital story from New Zealand Curriculum Online Prue Kelly, principal of Wellington High School explains a programme underway at the school that aims to meet the learning needs of its diverse students. The programme integrates subjects from four areas, English, science, social studies and maths and began in 2008 with 50 students. Teachers collaborate on all planning, student progress and assessment, and the way the lessons are constructed to open pathways across the subjects.
http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/digital_stories/school_stories/wellington_high_school_tukutahi/(quality)/large
Jeremy Kedian Keynote
Check out Jeremy Kedian’s keynote presentation, ‘20/20 Vision – Leading Learning into the Future’, recorded at the Learning@School Conference 2008. Jeremy is manager and senior consultant of the Educational Leadership Centre (ELC) in the School of Education at the University of Waikato. This presentation takes 1 hour 4 minutes.
Link to presentation: Leading Learning into the Future
Michael Fullan Keynote
This LeadSpace page links to a video of Michael Fullan giving his keynote speech, ‘Turnaround schools, Turnaround Systems’, at the Scottish Learning Festival in late 2007.
Link to LeadSpace item on Michael Fullan’s keynote speech.
Teachers TV
This LeadSpace page links to Teachers TV website. The website is funded by the UK’s Department of Education and Skills (DfES). It is a TV channel and broadband website catering for everyone who works in UK education, from principals and teachers to support staff. The hundreds of downloadable programmes take users inside classrooms and schools across the country to show how educators are bringing the curriculum to life and improving schools. Average viewing time per video is 15 minutes.
Link to LeadSpace item on Teachers TV.
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