passion purpose perspective pirate attitude

and a
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What does it take to be a champion sportsperson?

What does it take to be a champion educator?

Dont smile till Easter

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Passion

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Purpose

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Perspective

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A Pirate Attitude

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Professor John Hattie has spent his life studying the studies to nd out what works in education. His advice to teachers? Just shut up.

Professor John Hattie

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/just-shut-up-and-listen-expert-tells-teachers-20110609-1fv9y.html

When teachers stop talking deep learning takes place We need to see learning through the eyes of kids

What are the qualities and attitudes that facilitate learning? Realness or genuineness Prizing, Acceptance, Trust Empathic Understanding

Carl Ransom Rogers (1902 - 1987)

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm

We cannot teach another person directly; we can only facilitate their learning. The structure and organization of the self appears to become more rigid under threat

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm

The educational situation which most effectively promotes signicant learning is one in which: 1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced a minimum 2) differentiated perception of the eld of experience is facilitated.
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-rogers.htm

in other words

Students dont care how much you know until they know how much you care

If you want to teach young people, rst you must love them; you must love them all equally.

Saint Marcellin Champagnat Founder of the Marist Brothers

Professor Stephen Heppell www.heppell.net

A word of advice, Durk: Its the Mesolithic,Weve domesticated the dog, were using stone tools, and no ones naked anymore.

1998

2011

In early 1998 could you have predicted how much the world would change in 13 years?

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2011
Kindergarten

2024
Year 12

How do we prepare for a future that we cant possibly even imagine?

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We need to produce people who know how to act when theyre faced with situations for which they were not specically prepared.
Seymour Papert

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WTF?

24/7 access p2p learning online learning mobile learning home schooling cloud computing open learning spaces open learning resources co-constructed knowledge abundant information game based learning digital convergence

We have entered an era where self-motivated students with a personal device and broadband access can learn more than they could in school.

What do you need to know to teach a dog tricks?

More than the dog

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Dont worry that your children dont listen to you. Worry that they are watching everything you do.

Do you know how to...

create a network for learning?

manage information overload?

work collaboratively?

build content?

make information work for you?

use information legally and ethically?

How are YOU with these things?

Your students have many strengths

quick learners enjoy challenges seek engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail

BUT

Students quick learner enjoys a challenge seeks engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail enjoys learning worldliness wisdom knows whats possible

Teachers

Students quick learner enjoys a challenge seeks engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail enjoys learning worldliness wisdom knows whats possible

Teachers

Students quick learner enjoys a challenge seeks engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail enjoys learning worldliness wisdom knows whats possible

Teachers

Students quick learner enjoys a challenge seeks engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail enjoys learning worldliness wisdom knows whats possible

Teachers

Students quick learner enjoys a challenge seeks engagement no fear willing to try willing to fail enjoys learning worldliness wisdom knows whats possible

Teachers

What do you think sets an excellent teacher apart from an average one? What do great teachers do that makes them great?

What do you think sets an excellent teacher apart from an average one? What do great teachers do that makes them great?

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In your teaching career, have you ever done something with your students that... was out of the ordinary? you feel exceptionally proud of? you think was exemplary education? you know made a difference?

Did you have to bend a few rules to do it?

Great people who did not wait for permission

Great people who did wait for permission

Make it look like youre following instructions

while saying screw it

"It's fun" "I learned most of it from the teacher, but then... I started doing stuff for myself" "I found my way and worked it out by myself, and tried to solve my own problems" It makes you think a lot about the problem solving" "It helps you create your inner awesomeness!"

Perhaps we could endeavour to teach our future the following:

How to focus intently on a problem until it's solved. The benet of postponing short-term satisfaction in exchange for long-term success. How to read critically. The power of being able to lead groups of peers without receiving clear delegated authority. An understanding of the extraordinary power of the scientic method, in just about any situation or endeavour. How to persuasively present ideas in multiple forms, especially in writing and before a group. Project management. Self-management and the management of ideas, projects and people. Personal nance. Understanding the truth about money and debt and leverage. An insatiable desire (and the ability) to learn more. Forever. Most of all, the self-reliance that comes from understanding that relentless hard work can be applied to solve problems worth solving.

Seth Godin