Teaching and Learning Update TEACHING, LEARNING, AND CARING FRAMEWORK The Teaching, Learning, and Caring (TLC) Framework was successfully launched at the commencement of Term 1. The TLC Framework supports the development of a learning ecosystem to nurture creative, inquiring minds learning from, with and for the world. It is grounded in the School’s values, and clearly identifies the dispositions of the St Michael’s Grammar School learner as self-regulating, confident, tenacious, curious, motivated, reflective, and agile. To successfully achieve these dispositions in our students, the TLC Framework explicitly links the importance of both learning and wellbeing, and identifies evidence-based principles and practices that will ensure success for each individual young person within the School.
NEW METRICS VALIDATION TRIAL In 2022 St Michael’s continues its collaboration with The University of Melbourne, and other innovative schools, to reimagine and influence the future of schooling. Moving beyond traditional measurements of academic success, a key element of this research venture is to develop, test, and validate assessment tools and metrics to measure student success in 21st century learner competencies. In Term 2 this involved participating teachers trialling the use of groundbreaking rubrics to assess competencies such as student agency, active citizenship, communication, collaboration, quality thinking, acting ethically, and character. Involvement in this pilot will allow more rigorous assessment that gives a well-rounded picture of student success, and will inform education research and policy more broadly. Dr Luke Mandouit Associate Head – Research Innovation and Professional Practice K-12
Above: Alma (2M) and Cecilia (2M) reading in the Knowledge Commons 8
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The Crest Issue 7 2022
