On Tuesday 24 July Mike lead staff professional development to broaden our understanding of what Innovation is and how this might look for Eskdale School.
We revisited the Year 8 Graduate Profile and it was an eye opener that we all had difficulty recalling the attributes listed on the Graduate profile
We spent 15 minutes individually researching
- What Innovation is,
- What Innovation is not
- Why we need Innovation
We recorded our findings on post it notes and put them on to each brainstorm
We then worked together in three groups to summarize the information and develop some key take away messages for us as educations.
Reflection
The introduction was a good reminder to keep thinking of ways to ensure we are keeping the graduate profile attributes alive to ensure that this is what we are working towards for out Tamariki.
Innovation can appear very complex especially for junior children -Key here is to ensure the graduate attributes are being developed to equip the children with the capacity to be, creative, resilient, problem solvers with flexible thinking and collaborative skills able to be helpful to the wider community. And ensure they have rich tasks that allow them to think innovativitly and are develop their awareness that this is what they are doing. (Meta cognition)
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