Mindlab Georgia Harris

CISC 8101 - RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY INFORMED PRACTICE Research and Community Informed Practice Assessment 1 - G Harris 21st century skills are crucial for our children to acquire in order for them to actively participate in society as adults (ITL research, 2012). I have chosen to focus on 21st century skills as through scanning learners of the relevant age group, reading literature and talking to colleagues I found that a concern from all groups was children being prepared for their future. The community shared a need to develop necessary skills and behaviours in order to succeed. Two children shared that they valued learning to use the school values of respect, resilience, responsibility and relationships. Another child added to their comment that these were important to learn as you needed to know how to “be good when you’re old” or “they will fire you”. One author suggests that there is a consistent finding that despite both younger and older children receiving equal preparation ...

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Leadership Flipped preparation (Required): Read the excerpt from Greenleaf's essay on 'Servant Leadership' and then come to the session with an example of Servant leadership you have seen in practice. Agile Teams are Self-Organising Teams Peha’s (2011) version of the 12 principles of the agile manifesto reinterprets the last two as follows: The best ideas and initiatives emerge from self-organizing teams At regular intervals, teams reflect on how to become more effective, then tune and adjust their behavior accordingly We will explore this idea using a combination of Boris Gloger’s Ball Point game (Gloger, 2008) and Mike Rother’s Kata in the Classroom (Rother, 2015).  Kata is a term from martial arts. The Improvement Kata is a repeating routine for continuous improvement.  The following diagram of the improvement kata process is adapted from material on the  katatogrow.com  website. The goal of the ball point game is for ea...

A  personal learning network  is an informal  learning network  that consists of the people a  learner  nteracts with and derives knowledge from in a  personal learning environment . Leadership Flipped preparation (required): Find your school vision statement (not mission statement) and add it to your location's Padlet, ready to share in class. Each padlet is located in the Class Notes for this week. DONE “Empowering Learners for Life” Digital Flipped preparation (required): Read the article Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age and complete the survey form: ​tinyurl.com/TMLConnectivism DONE Leadership A Vision of the Change Process In this week sessions we explore two ways of looking at the process of leading change. Although both of these may seem simplistic on the surface, their ability to provide an overall vision for the change is important. "In reality, even successful change efforts are messy and...