A Future-focused Vision

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and welcome to English and a future focused vision.

My video presentation for the paper, 5-2 future focused.

So my definition of future focuses teaching that empowers students

to take ownership of their learning by providing an environment

that's flexible, innovative and challenging.

It looks at ways to maximize student engagement.

We're learning through digital tools and other strategies and it

enables them to play a meaningful role in deciding how

and what they've learned.

Ultimately, the goal is to prepare our students to be

capable, capable, informed and critical citizens.

And the challenge for teachers is to create an environment

where this learning and cultivation of skills can happen for

all students of all levels and abilities.

Informing my decision in this definition is the research that

I have tackled through readings and other sources, talking to

my tutors and peers online and through face to face

learning and also my experience of my placement of fraser

high school in the last two terms.

So for the rest of this video, we'll be talking

about the key ideas that have come out of this

paper, a concept that I'm taking with me.

As I look at two areas in which this future

focused approach works for teachers.

We'll explore a real world situation way my talking about

my experience of phrase and what I've learned there.

And finally, we'll conclude with my future vision and the

key idea that I'll take away with me for my

practice. So the content that I'm gonna run with today

is that teachers have a social and ethical responsibility to

teach students how to skills needed to critically address the

21st century wicked problems.

And they'll be looking at these two areas as we

progress through.

So here we go, key ideas, future focused is so

three key ideas that I've taken out of this paper

is this tackling of these wicked problems.

So we'll be looking at like the what students will

have to learn and how they will have to learn

it. So and then we'll be talking about the vision,

this is the why linking the purpose to students so

they can understand why they're being asked to learn something.

And then we'll look at learning environments and this will

be talking more about the environment and the situation where

these skills can be cultivated and talk Tackling wicked problems.

So this term wicked problems was coined by bolstered and

quiet by it.

She means the pressing global issues and problems that we

will all face the citizens in the 21st century.

The new Zealand curriculum has given us some examples of

future focused issues namely citizenship, globalization, sustainability enterprise.

But in order to tackle these problems, students will need

to be taught us how to skills and they'll need

to be able to transfer these skills across different subject

areas and that's where this multi literacy idea comes into

play. So we teach them critical literacy, how knowledge is

being constructed, how it is being used.

Um Does the writer, if we're looking at a text

or a novel, does the right, I even have the

authority to tell their stories or speak for this group

of people digital literacy skills.

We need to teach them how to find information and

when they find it, if they can even authenticated or

validated or how they can use it and apply it

to creating their own new knowledge, social and literacy skills,

how to act and interact and behave in different situations.

These are the how to use and the what's that

We have to teach our students, then we need to

think about connecting them to the y and so they

need to think globally about these big issues, but act

locally and so by this, we mean, make learning purposeful

and center the students in the context of the learning.

Finally thinking about the environment where this learning takes place.

The best way to do this is by integrating curriculum

and Ryan's field in 2020.

Her findings suggest that the future focused approach is the

best way to get to go through integrated curriculum by

using teachers, collaborative skills and knowledge of culturally responsive, digital

and learning center pedagogy is this can ultimately affect the

effectiveness of these environments in the play a role in

student learning and achievement.

Um, phillipe also, I guess for integrated curriculum, stating that

the consequence of teaching skills and isolation results in non

transference of skills in real life situations, and this was

something that Hobsonville Point School thought about when they were

creating their own learning model and they created one with

connected learning, recognizing that they need, students need to draw

on a range of disciplines, This cross an integrated curriculum

including related knowledge and skills to make learning deeper and

to further their understanding concepts that are being taught.

Finally an integrated curriculum.

It's important that teachers used evidence based outcomes, such as

assessments, and that's why they can remove the danger of

any assumption when it comes to planning and preparing guided

learning. Hi, so this concept in our mind that teachers

have a social ethical responsibility to teach students how to

skills. Um we're gonna look at two areas that they

do this first digital tools and finally relational practice.

So using digital tools, teachers want to make learning more

consistent, efficient and effective and digital tools allow them to

provide opportunities where students can have deep thinking opportunities um

engage thoughtfully and also develop their knowledge um more easily.

Mhm. So we start thinking about this meta cognition, we

start to mobilize their skills and knowledge and we want

our students to be aware about what they're learning, reflect

on their learning and be able to regulate themselves.

So this learner awareness becomes important and we can more

easily use this and make students access this by using

digital tools.

Similar collaboration um is a really important role that digital

tools can play as we start to think about preparing

our students for a complex world, in the different relationships

that they're going to have to form.

We need to start preparing them by creating these environments

in these situations where they can learn in the same

settings and ultimately it becomes a way to scaffold and

support learners of different levels by putting them with mixed

learners abilities, getting them to learn from and with each

other. And this idea of powerful partnerships um starts to

show itself.

Finally, the impact that digital tools can have.

Um right talks about how learners when the prime users

of digital technologies, they have higher motivation engagement.

And this in turn has multiple benefits for both the

teacher and the learner.

And ultimately our goal is teachers is to create genuine

empowerment of our students and using digital tools can help

them to achieve that.

Secondly, we wanted to look at, I wanted to look

at socio cultural relations practice.

So as teachers and learners and LTRO, we are uniquely

placed to have a national document that informs our education

system. So to treat a white onion, connects our past

to our future with the implications that we are to

partner with protect and to participate with California.

And so this future focused approach allows teachers to tap

into our cultural located context by creating culturally responsive pedagogy

is but it also has an opportunity for learners to

link back to that purpose.

That vision to put themselves in their personal connection to

place an identity into the learning.

So it also speaks to our role and responsibility both

as teachers and learners for our future participation in our

society and our Tehran.

So what does this look like in real classrooms?

So I've been afraid of high school.

And we have been studying the text The Hate U.

Give in preparation for N.

C. External exam at the end of the year where

they're looking at creating an essay.

So the teacher has involved lots of digital tools.

She's got her teacher to her students to think globally

and act locally.

Think about the impact that this text has socially on

themselves and on others.

And she's giving them lots of opportunity to practice and

apply these skills.

So they've been able to engage and collaborate with tasks

remotely and digitally.

They've been able to interrogate the text online with google

classroom discussions.

They've been able to link the text critically and also

look at the context and relate that not only to

the black panther movement of 1966 but how that relates

to us here and al terra in 2021 bike and

asking the questions Black Lives Matter Movement, what does that

mean for me?

And there was really good engagement from the students.

When the teacher opened up this question said, well, hang

on, how does this relate to us here in Altoona?

Finally, she's giving them lots of opportunity to practice these

critical skills in the safe environment.

It we've been having to have the opportunity to interrogate

past exam questions, unpack the the questions themselves and recognize

keywords and practice mock exams in order to prepare for

the final summit of assessment.

So my development over the course of this paper as

evidence by my first assignment and also if I go

back and look at my um discussion entries and I

can see that I my understanding was a little bit

undefined. In the beginning.

I was tapping into pieces of the concept of my

understanding as a whole, hasn't been um broaden until my

recent placement experiences where the learning itself has deepened and

I've been able to um kind of finally understand what

future focused vision actually looks like in real time.

So my takeaway for this paper is that change is

constant and if I want to elevate my practice and

bias the best and I need to have future focused

um practices.

And I also need to consider and continually reflect on

the changes that my learners will face, the changes that

my practice will undergo, the evolving wicked problems and also

my attitude that I take into future focused.

It's my responsibility to carry this vision into my practice

and subject areas.

I go forth into my school environment and that is

my home.

So cocky Deano, thank you very much for listening.

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