Transforming a Learning Curriculum

Gideon Williams @gideonwilliams Perins School

A Brief History…

Small Rural SecondaryAlresford, Hampshire11-16 school1,100 students72 teaching staff

Setting the Scene

• All teaching staff with laptop (3yr cycle)

• Digital projectors in every room

• All users with school/home email access

• Moodle (VLE) since 2004

• Mahara eportfolios since 2007

• A 1:1 notebook scheme for students (98% uptake)

• Managed site wide wireless network

• OneDrive on notebooks

• Flexible broadband filtering (100Mb)

• Led by a Headteacher willing to take risks

What is Transformational Learning?

Enquiry based and challenge learning

Higher order thinking skills

collaboration reflection, evaluation

“flipped” learning

6Rs PLTS

21st

Century tools

Digital pedagogy

samr

We want students who leave Perins

Independence

Resilient

Relationships Balanced

Achieving potential

To have skills for Life Long learning

Series of Projects2 x 2hrs per week

Assessed through PLTSNot subject focused

Delivered by 8 different specialists

How it works?

• All of the courses are created on……

• Students evidence their work via….

• ..Using a range of tools but focusing on..

2013 Projects Titles…

Year 7

• Create a Nation

• 7 Billion Ideas

• Things that go Bump in the Night

• Ignore it, Share it, Solve it

• Face Bug

Year 8

• An Inspector Calls

• Product Wars

• Human Rights, Human Wrongs

• Sensational Science

• Trash Fashion

Setting Off….

Dashboard and Links

Signposts…

Rewards

The Moodle Courses..

Use the wide range of Activities..

• Checklists (for independent learning)

• Glossaries (for modelling)

• Databases (for peer reviews)

• Links (to Web2 tools)

• Web pages (embedding Help video)

• Questionnaires (Surveys and Feedback)

• Question poll (Project choice)

• Forums (Discussions and marked reviews)

• Gallery (snapshots of Mahara pages)

Transforming the VLE

Transforming the VLE

The Students work….

• Is creative

• Is personalised

• Is worked on between lessons

• Is peer reviewed

• Is fed back to

• Is honest

• Is their own best efforts!

Thanks for listening

Gideon WilliamsDirector of eLearningPerins School@gideonwilliams