Vision For Learners Teacher Framework

VISION FOR LEARNERS TEACHER FRAMEWORK

VISION FOR LEARNERS TEACHER FRAMEWORK

The Endeavour College mission and The Endeavour Way inspire our students to develop as individuals, be effective collaborators, and contribute to the wider community.

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IF WE TEACH TODAY’S STUDENTS AS WE TAUGHT YESTERDAY’S, WE ROB THEM OF TOMORROW. John Dewey

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PEDAGOGY & PRACTICES STATEMENT

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GIVEN A RICH ENVIRONMENT, LEARNING BECOMES LIKE THE AIR - IT’S IN AND AROUND US. Sandra Dodd

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Endeavour College is a vibrant, Christian environment where each student and staff member develop their God-given abilities for LIFE and community. All members bring to our community a range of strengths and experiences and are supported to actively drive their own learning and commit to ongoing improvement.

Future focused educators build strong relationships with staff and students in their care. They are learner focused, communicate high expectations and are committed to supporting students to collaborate effectively and make meaningful contributions to the global and local community.

Future Focused educators develop learning experiences that: • Are aligned to the SACE and ACARA Achievement Standards, General Capabilities and Cross Curriculum Priorities • Are underpinned by the Vision for Learners attributes • Are relevant, engaging and authentic • Are designed and co-designed to foster student agency • Allow for surface, deep and transfer of skills and understandings • Are reflective of the real world • Leverage technology to support deep, rich and personalised learning • Promote problem solving and critical thinking to produce innovative solutions • Purposefully connect with local and global communities Future Focused Practices include: • Building positive relationships within the classroom • Social and Emotional Learning strategies • Setting clear learning intentions and success criteria • Flexible pacing to meet learners’ needs • Framing lessons from the students’ point of view - Why is this important to learn?

- How will I show what I have learned?

- What will I be able to do when I have finished?

• Collaborative strategies • Visible thinking routines • Setting personal and learning goals • Providing timely, practical and constructive feedback • Opportunities for students to reflect and revise • Inquiry/Project Based Learning/design thinking task design • Flipped Learning strategies

LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Staff of Endeavour College commit to, and have a responsibility for, ensuring flexible and inclusive environments that enrich student learning. Our aim is to provide opportunities for student agency and leadership through consistent expectations of all students to become independent learners. When students come together, work interdependently and engage in opportunities beyond the classroom and where learning goals and community service are connected to their worlds, they develop a sense of collective action. The environment both in a physical sense and in terms of atmosphere, are crucial to the realisation of these commitments.

MIDDLE YEARS

Learning in the Middle Years at Endeavour College is an adventure designed to capture the curiosity and imagination of every student. Students develop the ability to inquire and make connections, and can articulate their developing capabilities as learners. With increasing independence and personal responsibility, students courageously explore a variety of opportunities to grow. An empathic understanding of and respect for others enables learners to productively collaborate with different people in a variety of situations. An emphasis on positive relationships empowers our students to be inclusive and use their social awareness to influence a culture where all can thrive.

Students in the Middle Years understand their responsibilities as global citizens to support a sustainable future encompassing fairness for all. They engage in experiences that extend their thinking about the wider community, their civic responsibilities and their capacity to make a difference. Students in the Middle Years see the world and the future as full of hope and opportunity.

MIDDLE YEARS

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

ACTIVE LEARNER

• Constructors of their own learning • Initiators • Motivated • Inquirers

• Including voice and choice • Promoting help seeking behaviours and to ask clarifying questions • Providing opportunities to demonstrate initiative • Including checkpoints to allow selfmanagement • Prompting students to seek and share feedback • Developing independent working skills

PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE

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Organised Emotionally aware Proactive learners Prepared

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REFLECTIVE

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Honest Self-aware Discerning Seekers of feedback

• Providing learners with opportunity to reflect on their learning and seek feedback from peers and teachers • Providing quality and timely feedback • Including opportunities to build on, consolidate and apply previous knowledge to new situations.

• Facilitate student reflection on their attitude and mindset when completing tasks and nurture a growth mindset.

• Providing opportunities for students to access support and enrichment in areas of strength and growth.

COURAGEOUS

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Ethical thinkers Risk takers Persistent Advocates for themselves

• Promoting a safe environment where mistakes are embraced and used for further development • Fostering a risk tasking mindset • Providing authentic opportunities to share learning with others • Providing open ended tasks to allow for multiple pathways to success • Fostering areas of passion

Explicitly teaching self-regulation Supporting self-set learning goals Facilitating restorative conversations Providing appropriate scaffolding Allowing developmentally appropriate responsibility

MIDDLE YEARS

SOCIALLY AWARE

TEAM PLAYER

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

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Socially responsible Active Citizens Actively engaged Connected

• Modelling respect • Celebrating diversity • Allowing students to engage with other perspectives • Facilitating connections between subjects and real world • Modelling and practicing appropriate conflict resolution

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Responsible Fair minded Contributors Inclusive

• Assisting students to set group goals and boundaries • Empowering students to contribute.

• Identifying and facilitating the use students gifts to support those around them • Valuing that everyone learns differently • Providing opportunity to deliver and respond to peer feedback

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Aware of audience Constructive Respectful Positive

• Negotiating roles and responsibilities • Building a shared understanding • Supporting students effectively to communicate verbally, non-verbally and digitally • Structuring group work with varying roles and responsibilities including project-based learning opportunities

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Empathetic Relationship focused Flexible Restorative

COMMUNICATOR

FORGIVING • Developing in students constructive ways to manage conflict • Embracing and modelling the Endeavour Way • Applying restorative practices • Using transdisciplinary approaches

MIDDLE YEARS

GLOBALLY AWARE

CHANGE MAKER

LOVING & RESPECTFUL

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

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Appreciative Caring for surroundings Understanding of others Responsive to world issues

• Designing/Co-designing authentic experiences - real world problem solving • Facilitating development of life skills • Encouraging community and expert interaction • Embracing alternate viewpoints and realities • Presenting challenging global issues • Providing complex problems and encouraging innovative solutions

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Advocates for change Empowered Innovative Problem solvers

• Making connections with the wider community.

• Providing opportunity for open constructive discussion • Providing opportunity for students to practice being change-makers

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Humble Compassionate Generous Gracious

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Faith filled Optimistic Open-minded Determined

Accepting others Valuing diversity Embracing the Endeavour Way Facilitating learning experiences that develop a deep understanding of others

HOPEFUL • Providing occasions for students to develop and share their God given abilities • Building positive relationships • Encourage students to invest in their future by being prepared to learn • Encourage a development and growth mindset

SENIOR YEARS

At Endeavour College, senior students are knowledge-seekers who pursue their curiosity and passions with a sense of independence and purpose. A well-developed emotional and intellectual flexibility allows students to meet challenges with grit, and to flourish. By working with others, students broaden their perspectives and solve complex problems. An empathetic understanding of the world beyond the immediate, builds a capacity within students to be change-makers.

Senior students at Endeavour have the hearts and minds to self-direct their futures, work with others and become influencers in their communities.

SENIOR YEARS

COMMITMENT TO GROWTH

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

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• Providing opportunities for student agency • Communicating regularly with students to negotiate deadlines and set goals • Varying teaching methods to cater for student needs • Communicating learning activities and success criteria

Organised Resourceful Reliable Accountable to self

PERSONAL RESPONSIBLE • •

Persistent Self-reflective • Forward thinking • Courageous

SELF EFFICACY

CREATIVITY

• Selecting meaningful, challenging tasks • Cultivating a growth mind set • Offering opportunities for self-reflection in order to improve • Creating opportunities to contribute to class discussions • Nurturing a classroom culture of resilience, persistence and intrinsic motivation

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Confident Purposeful Constructors of learning Articulate

• Developing and using a learner profile • Structuring tasks and subjects that involve choice and areas of passion in students • Structuring tasks that allow for selfmanagement of time • Allowing for structured experiences for self-assessment • Providing opportunity for goal setting and reflection • Using Flipped Learning experiences

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Innovative Agile Inquisitive Risk takers

• Designing multi-modal tasks • Leading by example in terms of creative approaches • Structuring tasks for challenge and problem solving • Structuring activities that allow for the development of perspective • Creating ways to allow for student input into rubric design • Creating activities that allow for experimentation

SENIOR YEARS

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

• SHARED RESPONSIBILITY • •

Cooperative Collaborative Inclusive • Accountable to others

INCLUSIVE

FLEXIBLE THINKING

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

• Negotiating roles and responsibilities • Maintaining a shared understanding of expectations • Allowing students to take ownership and learn from others • Structuring opportunities for agency • Communicating effectively • Allowing for peer assessment

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Embraces diversity Forgiving Gracious Respectful

• Welcoming and valuing diversity • Giving opportunities for student to demonstrate and develop appreciation and grace • Building collaborative classrooms

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Problem solvers Resilient Adaptable Open minded

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Considered Informed Critical Perceptive

Posing complex real-world problems Allowing for iteration of ideas Teaching the skills of problem-solving Using Design Thinking approaches Using visible thinking routines

PERSPECTIVE • Developing decision making skills • Sharing alternative perspectives and ways of thinking • Encouraging students to take on opposing viewpoints • Showing a variety of ways to complete tasks

SENIOR YEARS

INFLUENCER

SERVANT HEART

GLOBAL AWARENESS

RISK TAKING

QUALITIES IN STUDENTS

TEACHERS ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE QUALITIES BY ...

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Role models Encouragers Inspiring Effective Communicators

• Exploring and pursuing opportunities, collective interests and aspirations.

• Encouraging and empowering others • Inspiring a hope filled future • Co-designing learning tasks

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Loving Compassionate Empathetic Humble

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Appreciative Empathetic Motivated Authentic

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Discerning Courageous Confident Hopeful

• Exploring opportunities to heal relationships • Engaging in service activities within and outside our College community • Developing students to be ambassadors for social justice • Developing a sense of compassion and respect for others

• Finding authentic real world problem solving opportunities • Developing skill-based programs • Engaging guest speakers/events/ community-oriented programs

• Supporting and encouraging students to undertake challenging opportunities • Providing authentic challenges • Differentiating learning experiences

NOTES

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