Burnaby Inquiry Teams Moving Learning Forward

Innovative Learning
Environments – for Learners
of All Ages
Judy Halbert & Linda Kaser
British Columbia, Canada
Two Beliefs
Seven Key Concepts
For young learners to be
curious and engaged in their
learning, they need to be
supported by adults who are
equally curious and engaged
in their own learning.
Innovation floats on a sea of
inquiry.
Challenge
How do we create the
conditions for adult curiosity
and innovative practice – that
lead to deeper learner
engagement, high quality and
high equity?
British Columbia
ILE Initiative
Networks of Inquiry and
Innovation
+
Leadership Development
+
Disciplined Inquiry
Seven Key Concepts
1. Learning to Live Together
2. Shared Purpose and Hard Goals
3. Growth Mindsets
4. Learning Principles
5. Innovative Learning
Environments
6. Spiral of Inquiry
7. Four Key Questions
#1. Learning to Live Together
Social Responsibility
Performance Standards
https://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/perf_sta
nds/social_resp.htm
Learning to Live Together
1. Contributing to the classroom
and school community
2. Solving problems in peaceful
ways
3. Valuing diversity and defending
human rights
4. Exercising democratic rights and
responsibilities
# 2. Hard Goals
Intense Moral Purpose
HARD Goals
Heartfelt
Animated
Required
Difficult
EVERY learner crossing the stage
with dignity, purpose and options
ALL learners leaving our schools
MORE curious
than when they arrive
ALL learners with an
understanding of and
respect for Aboriginal
perspectives
Susan Point
Learning to Live Together
Moral Purpose and Hard Goals
Your thoughts?
Your connections?
#3. Growth Mindsets
Fixed Mindset
Intelligence is something you have or
don’t have.
• Avoids challenges
• Gives up easily
• Sees effort as a waste of time.
• Ignores feedback,
• Feels threatened by the success of
others.
Growth Mindset
Intelligence can be developed.
• Embraces challenges.
• Keeps going when things get
difficult.
• Sees effort as the path to mastery.
• Learns from feedback.
• Takes inspiration from the success
of others.
Growth Mindset
Why is this so important?
# 4 Learning Principles
The Nature of Learning
Learning Principles
1. Learning and learners at the centre
2. Social nature of learning
3. Motivation and emotions integral to
learning
4. Recognizing individual differences
5. Stretching all students
6. Assessment for learning
7. Building horizontal connections
1. Learners At The Centre
2. Social
Nature of
Learning
3. Emotions are Central to Learning
4. Recognizing Individual Differences
and Prior Knowledge
5. Stretching All Students
Demands hard work and effort –
without excessive overload
6. Assessment for Learning
7. Building Horizontal
Connectedness
#5. Innovative Learning
Environments
#6 A disciplined approach to
inquiry
The spiral of inquiry
The Spiral
of Inquiry
6. DISCIPLINED
FRAMEWORK
Scanning
What’s going on for our learners?
Focusing
Where are we going to put our
attention?
Developing a Hunch
What’s leading to this situation?
How are WE contributing to it?
New Learning
How and where will we learn more
about what to do?
Taking Action
What will we do differently?
Checking
How will we check that we are making
enough of a difference?
#7. Four Key Questions
and Why They Matter
1. Can you name two adults in
this learning setting who
believe you will be a success in
life?
2. Where are YOU going with
your learning? (What are you
learning and why is this
important?)
3. How is it going?
4. Where to next?
In your settings….
To what extent could every learner
answer these questions?
To what extent are the learning
principles part of every learner’s
experiences?
Teacher Professional Learning in High
Performing Systems
• Inquiry – based
• Collaborative
• Linked and coherent
• Sustained over time
Key ideas
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Learning to live together
Growth mindsets
Shared purpose and hard goals
Learning principles
Innovative learning
environments
6. Disciplined inquiry framework
7. Four key questions – for
scanning and checking
In service of system
transformation for deeper
engagement, high equity
and high quality for ALL
learners
To explore these ideas further
Foundations of Teaching and
Learning. Module 5 begins May 4.
www.coursera.org
Thank you.
Judy Halbert jhalbert@telus.net
Linda Kaser lkaser@telus.net
www.noii.ca