I've just been watching some amazing Core education Enabling e-Learning clips that have got me thinking and enthusiastic again, though still not sure if the "how" of Innovative Learning Environments is made explicit.
There's potential for us to move towards ILE's next year and this will be an interesting challenge for many of us. I wonder what kind of learning we might need to do in order to be ready to move towards this with confidence. I have the benefit of working closely with two of our ILE teachers and I know for them, there have been countless facets that have challenged them beyond what they thought the roles would bring. Not insurmountable challenges, but challenges just the same. There is also a lot of groundwork necessary in terms of the leadership throughout these change initiatives in order to teachers engaging in this huge Inquiry learning process to be adequately supported to do what Inquiry Learning requires by design - to fail. We must feel safe to fail and to fail miserably. To be trusted with the responsibility of identifying our most pressing need and the necessary future progressions in this process and to be able to fall over, reflect, stand up, re-plan, practice, trial and fail again. Our success comes in what we learn. It is not success to check all the boxes of a traditional classroom as that is not the future model in an ILE. The measure of success in these situations, I feel, is to begin to develop learners who are conscious of their role in the learning, developing the capacity to monitor and manage their own learning and to fail in the process so as to learn. For if we are not letting out teachers fail and model failure and the resilience to continue, how are they able to demonstrate this, practice and perfect it with their learners?
There's potential for us to move towards ILE's next year and this will be an interesting challenge for many of us. I wonder what kind of learning we might need to do in order to be ready to move towards this with confidence. I have the benefit of working closely with two of our ILE teachers and I know for them, there have been countless facets that have challenged them beyond what they thought the roles would bring. Not insurmountable challenges, but challenges just the same. There is also a lot of groundwork necessary in terms of the leadership throughout these change initiatives in order to teachers engaging in this huge Inquiry learning process to be adequately supported to do what Inquiry Learning requires by design - to fail. We must feel safe to fail and to fail miserably. To be trusted with the responsibility of identifying our most pressing need and the necessary future progressions in this process and to be able to fall over, reflect, stand up, re-plan, practice, trial and fail again. Our success comes in what we learn. It is not success to check all the boxes of a traditional classroom as that is not the future model in an ILE. The measure of success in these situations, I feel, is to begin to develop learners who are conscious of their role in the learning, developing the capacity to monitor and manage their own learning and to fail in the process so as to learn. For if we are not letting out teachers fail and model failure and the resilience to continue, how are they able to demonstrate this, practice and perfect it with their learners?
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