walk the talk

https://au.educationhq.com/news/41377/the-pisa-fallacy-in-singapore-insights-from-the-nie/#

The PISA Fallacy

Before over 1500 delegates, Director General of the Ministry of Education, Mr Wong Siew Hoong, projected graphs depicting Singapore’s stellar PISA results. He then juxtaposed these to OECD data on student wellbeing, and also of innovation in the economy, revealing Singapore in the lowest quartile. His conclusion was stark: “we’ve been winning the wrong race”. ...standardised test drilling and a culture of compliance..: “we’re building compliant students just as the jobs that value compliance are beginning to disappear”.

Start/Keep:
Asking students to create authentic products
Aligning learning clearly to assessment criteria
Rewarding initiative and originality
Teaching Creativity

Just doing proposal for ipad use in the ARTS- how it would connect our programmes across the curriculum and authentic learning opportunities.
Teacher Only Day - looking at the Arts kete and expanding the Project Based Learning groups from yr 10 into yr 9.