This has been something I have written about before in my Trickey Thoughts blog, yes I am unashamedly self-promoting. It was fascinating when I reached out to the community on Facebook around this and software developers and people from large companies were really excited to see schools interested in this way of working. If you want to see how I used it in the classroom, the blog is here. It was great to have a refresher on Agile with Phil Baskerville, it left us questioning how do we put it into practice within the classroom? Many of these conversations started buzzing around the staffroom and continued with me chatting to my sister in law. This part of the blog is going to be a bit of dreamscaping. Imagine a blank canvas on which we could paint a different picture of our education system outside this industrialised model we have inherited. If we were to use some of the Agile methodologies what would it look like? Let us look at Scrum as outlined in the picture above. In this system we would call the product backlog the NZ curriculum. The team would be your group of students - these could possibly be students we mentor. This team would look at the things they have to do in a week, prioritise and plan a two-week sprint. What could this sprint involve? It could involve setting up specific lessons to cover knowledge deficits, it could be using a design thinking process with the aim to produce something or write and produce a play first studying a classic text. The possibilities are endless in essence. Daily Scrum meetings would ensure students know what tasks need to be completed with the use of Kanban boards etc (a 'to-do, doing, done' list). After the 2 weeks, we would have a potentially assessable product with the teacher tailoring assessment to the tasks. We would reflect and celebrate what has been completed what can be improved. Students would be truly empowered to follow their passions. A team would hopefully learn the benefits of brain breaks and could schedule sports into their team time. What if teams were selected around specific Vocational pathways with some fluidity around these movements? Integration and the break down of silos would be easily done. The Amnesty group, for example, could go about organising action and this could be tied into an assessment with them writing for a true purpose. I know that some of our teachers have seen this working in other schools and there are of course pitfalls along the way, but with an agile mindset, these can be addressed and learnt from. ~Duncan Trickey
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What started as the seed of an idea has bloomed into a brand new course at Otago Girls' High School.
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The ultimate would be getting the students to create their own song.
Most students really enjoy it and they are concentrate on learning the lyrics so much that no one has ever complained that I am off key or sound awful (perhaps they are too polite). Whether they like it or not it is effective and is a great tool – not just for juniors but for seniors too.
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Let your inner Beyonce come out!
Where does OK Go come up with ideas like dancing in zero gravity, performing in ultra slow motion or constructing a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine for their music videos?
In between live performances of "This Too Shall Pass" and "The One Moment," lead singer and director Damian Kulash takes us inside the band's creative process, showing us how to look for wonder and surprise.
How do you allow for or carve out time to find the wonder and surprise in what you teach?
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