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Innovation in education
Some of the most
exciting developments in education
are to do with creativity and emotional wellbeing.
ducation has seen
more innovation in its
methods, practices,
tools and philosophies
in the past 10 to 15 years
than in the 100 years before that.
Naturally, weve leaped along
in technological bounds and
classrooms have never been so
efficient and exciting as they are
since laptops, tablets and other
devices arrived on the scene, but
thanks to scientific discoveries
about how our brains work,
there have also been mega shifts
in how and what students are
taught.
Theres also been a whole new
approach to pastoral care.
Shelford Girls Grammar
principal, Polly Flanagan, says:
Some of the most innovative
things that are happening in
education are to do with creativity, and social and emotional
wellbeing and development.
To that end, the 116 year-old
girls school in Caulfield is currently the only school in Australia piloting the MYTERN (Take
Emotional Responsibility Now)
program from ELC to Year 12.
Aimed at children and adults, the
program is a preventative intervention designed to create emotional fitness and increase
resilience and wellbeing, says
Ms Flanagan. If children are resilient they can handle the
added pressures of life and
therefore can perform better,
have more successful relationships and be happier.
MYTERN teaches them how
to build that resilience.
Developed by Dr Jane Foster,
MYTERN is a strategy based on
the metaphor that life is a journey and that we can influence
our thoughts and emotions if we
take control of the steering
wheel as we travel lifes roads.
Some roads build your health
and feel good and others build
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Wesley College IB Diploma students. Wesley will introduce a new uniform in 2016,
designed to reflect both traditional and contemporary elements of the school.
Primary pupils of The Geelong College dont need any prompting as they demonstrate
how easy it is for young minds to be creative and innovative.
A tradition of
being progressive
Learning what to do
with knowledge
portunities for the schools staff, students and parents, and then more broadly
for teachers and schools in the region.
This will be achieved through a range of
lectures by key educators, individual research projects by staff, and research collaborations with Deakin University.
Our profession is one thats going
through a stage where theres a lot of
research being done and its something to
harness and link into, says Mr Barr. It
enables us to use an element of what
universities are good at, and schools, as
far as universities are concerned, are a
laboratory of learning, so it assists them.
Mr Barr appreciates the specific expertise universities can offer in terms of a
high level of thinking that can come into
project work as well as their links with
the corporate world and real-life projects.
Change and innovation is developed in
the context and culture of a particular
school and happens at the ground level,
he says. You have to have a clear vision
for a school, then people work collaboratively in developing that vision.
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Developing as
critical thinkers
New ideas are
reflected in all subjects when students
are inspired.
ts easy to fall into the trap of
thinking that innovation is all
about technology and where
its going to take us next, but
in reality fresh ideas can and
do spring forth in any educational
domain.
At St Catherines school in
Toorak, innovation has well and
truly blown its way into the art
curriculum with artist-inresidence Cameron Robbins and
his wind-generated drawing machine demonstrating to students
the links that exist between art,
music, science, technology, engineering and geography.
Director of curriculum innovation and development, Adrian
Puckering, says: Innovation
comes in all forms. The engineering involved in constructing the
machine, that packs up into a
portable box for easy transport to
different locations, allows students to understand how to calculate the ratios needed to create
It is the access to information and not merely access to technology which has proven to be the real revolution.
question of who owns the learning? In a world where being literate in the 21st Century is being
fundamentally re-defined we
must be digitally, scientifically,
creatively and information literate, he says.
At St Catherines, we are therefore challenging our pedagogy,
our pre-class, in-class and postclass experiences, our learning
paradigm and our methods of assessment to ensure that all our
students are getting the utmost
from every learning experience.
A chance to
shine
St Leonards College nurtures our brightest
creative minds, allowing them to truly shine.
Our investment in excellence goes beyond our
reputation for academic performance. We are
particularly proud of the success of our
musicians in National competitions and of our
thespians unprecedented Victorian Musical
Theatre Guild success.
We ensure all students have the chance and
confidence to be excited by their brilliance.
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Deputy principal, Teresa
Deshon, with Year 8 and 9
students and one of the 3D
printing creations.
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appreciating
technological
innovation from afar is
one thing, but possibly
being one of the first schools in
Australia to bring the realm of 3D
printing into the classroom is
something else!
Kilvington Grammar deputy
principal, Teresa Deshon, says
the school has always been a
leader in the area of IT. Our
overall approach to IT in the
curriculum is to ensure were
developing deep and critical
thinkers, she says.
As such, Ms Deshon and head
of curriculum IT, Ms Kirsty Watts,
researched the possibility of
using 3D printing to enhance
learning. They realised that to sell
the concept to the school, 3D
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