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Meeting in Shepparton 12/11/10 with curriculum group CEO

Reflection on Canada tour

Flexible scheduling
 * reading groups with focus each day not necessarily at the same time
 * weekly interviews
 * term interviews with student, parent and teacher
 * maths focus groups
 * workshops/conferences scheduled over week/fortnight

Unsure
 * how does First Steps literacy/maths fit into this model?
 * Inquiry? Group brainstorms, bouncing ideas off each other? Non negotiable seminar perhaps
 * Deeper understandings are usually developed through collaborative experiences, how does this happen in this model? Vygotsky zone of proximal development
 * ensuring that tasks lead to new understandings not 'coverage' approach or students regurg. what they already know
 * importance of knowing where students are at with their learning..... preassessments in variety of formats

Creative options available to demonstrate understanding is so natural for our students in a 1:1 program (students are always 'seeing' different ways of presenting their learning. From this need there also comes a more collaborative approach. Students asked to research ballads, watch how they're presented on YouTube and record them .....naturally asked if they could work with another person because they could see how having two people together would benefit them (the result was an interview with Henry Lawson about a ballad that he wrote)