Deep Learning: Engage the World Change the World

by Michael Fullan

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Linking learning to student aspirations, providing powerful feedback, and building on student curiosity and interest builds stronger co-learning partnerships

The learning partners—teachers and students—must find the right balance between structure and independence,

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Teachers experience that co-creation with students and consciously thinking about the curriculum leads to motivated students, which makes teaching easier than the class frontal approach.

Success Criteria are determined by teachers and students collectively.

However, this transformation is not easy.

Students’ motivation, commitment, and joy in learning have increased significantly.

Students brainstormed different areas of interest such as health, sport, education, gaming, food, and transport, and then compiled a list of questions they were curious about.

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For students to become equal partners, teachers’ roles must also change toward becoming activators, coaches, and catalysts.

Learning is complex, and students are multidimensional.

While the facilitator set of strategies is more effective than the traditional “sage on the stage,” Hattie (2012) found that the impact of the activator was three times greater than the facilitator with an effect size of .72.

“guide on the side” is too passive.

develop student skills in learning to learn so that they become reflective, metacognitive learners.

Activators have a wide range of pedagogical capacities and use thinking tools and explicit questions to scaffold learning for that particular student or task so that students are challenged to meet the next level of learning and develop increasingly complex capacities and competencies.

Teacher as Culture Builder

how attitude and the learning environment can be good predictors of academic success for children,

Traditional approaches to education for students in these circumstances can be toxic—boring,

boring, irrelevant, and a constant reminder of how inadequate they are.

it is critically important that their teachers and the school help them set high personal expectations, learn how to manage their own learning, and be engaged in learning by involvement in real-world problem solving so that their ...

rather the product of the environment we are building that

It makes them want to persist and succeed.

Teacher as Collaborator

It would be possible to co-design a learning unit with students that is multidisciplinary and focused on a real-world problem in a superficial way—we

Quite often things that look “cool” are not deep with respect to learning.

The discriminator of meaningful co-design is when students are establishing goals for development that move them to increasingly complex levels of growth on the competencies.

There is much that teachers can do for themselves to learn from each other, but there is also a role for school leaders in which they proactively enable focused collaboration.

A New Role for Leaders

“lead learners,”

Lead learners do this in three ways: by modeling learning themselves, shaping culture, and maximizing the focus on deep learning.

They don’t simply send teachers to workshops but learn alongside them,

Lead learners cultivate deep collaborative work by establishing a nonjudgmental culture and conditions that build trust.

Maximizing the Focus on Deep Learning

A New Role for Families

Teachers and schools play a role, but it is only when they work in concert with families

that we can hope to see real advances.

When the adults can help children handle stressful moments, they impact the child’s long-term ability to manage emotions.

A New Role for Community

The boundaries between the classroom and the world are becoming blurred. More and more we see teachers and

students reaching out to experts

Rich resources exist in local and global communities, but students and teachers must develop the explicit skills to connect and build those relationships.

These partnerships have provided the opportunity to be creative and collaborative in unfamiliar situations, think critically, and communicate ideas in challenging situations, and have developed students’ character and their place as citizens of the world, but more important, brought that global perspective to the Tasman Peninsula.

This transformation of roles requires shifts in control, decision making, engagement, and accountability.

the learning environment, leveraging digital, and pedagogical practices that best foster deep learning.

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” —John Dewey

learning environments, leveraging digital, and pedagogical practices—and

We begin with a recognition that deep learning will only flourish if we reimagine the ideal learning environment for today’s learner.

“the modern learning ‘space’ which includes physical and virtual spaces but more importantly the cultural and relationship spaces”

How do we transform traditional