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• Aim – what do you want to gain from this? What are you look for?

• 21st Century Context – the changing reality our students will face

(which supports the need for Boarding). Finding a gap!

• “Why” boarding matters - arguments positioning the

importance of Boarding in addressing the 21st Century reality.

• Ken Robinson’s “7 Senses” Pedagogical

Framework - A practical approach to creating the right conditions in

Boarding

• Strategies – How might we be already addressing “7 senses”?

• TPS Context – same, same but different.

• TPS Strategies – Our attempts to fulfil student’s “7 senses”

• Strategies – What might we be able to do now to address “7 senses”?

• Parting thoughts – Our attempts to fulfil student’s “7 senses”

Overview

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Background

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Share

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21st Century Context – Opening thoughts

John Dewey

Richard Riley

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21st Century Context – Student reality

21st Century Context – Megatrends

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preparing students for the universally positive goals of building personal competencies, expertise and wisdom. All students need to consider the wider implications of their actions, to act mindfully in the world and to reflect on their contributions and adapt to

C. Fadel

The world is becoming increasingly turbulent. It is difficult to overstate the impact of digital technologies on how we think, live and work. The benefits of these technologies are extraordinary, but there are drawbacks too. K. Robinson

21st Century Context - VUCA

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21st Century Context - Tyranny of the

urgent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2Wn

CkBTw0 Free Kids – Dirt is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=467tidi

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21st Century Context - Disruption

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Why Boarding matters

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We need to be teaching non-

routine interpersonal skills

(such as those involved in

consulting and coaching) and

non-routine analytical skills

(such as in engineering

design and medical surgery)”.

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“Trying to meet the future while doing what we did in the past” Sir Ken

Robinson

Too much focus on deductive reasoning

Linear relationship between academic versus non academic on the

spectrum extremes

Greater needed for divergent thinking. Thinking laterally, changing the

status quo

It is the capacity to learn that needs to be nurtured – not just ‘what is

learnt’. Anonymous

Positioning Boarding within 21stC Context

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So - what DO you already do?People Programs &

Processes

Physical

Infrastructure

Resources

Sight

Sound

Smell

Taste

Touch

Balance

Intuition

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“7 Senses” – A Pedagogical

Framework

7 Senses!

- Sight

- Sound

- Smell

- Taste

- Touch

- Balance

- “Intuition”

People

Programs & Processes

Physical infrastructure

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6 Senses

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A 7th Sense?

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. The question of when time stops for you. Flow occurs, learning occurs, in and outside the classroom, when your highest strengths are just matched with the highest challenges

because then they can grow and flourish. That means we

can tailor what we do to providing the right type of challenges that encourage

Martin Seligman, Wellbeing before learning

Intuitive Synergy

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Intuitive SynergyHuman beings and human communities are the same. We need the right conditions for growth, in our schools, businesses, and communities, and in our individual lives. If the conditions are right, people grow in synergy with the people around them and the environments they create. If the conditions are poor, people protect themselves and their anxieties from neighbors and the world. Some of the elements of our own growth are inside us. They include the need to develop our natural aptitudes and personal passions. Finding and nurturing them is the surest way to ensure our growth

Ken Robinson, The Element

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Sir Ken Robinson’s “Finding your element through passion”…

Strategies – Creativity & Passion

Provide students opportunities to reflect

and learn their passion so that they can

better navigate through life

Choose a job you love, and you will

never have to work a day in your life”.

Confucius

Robinson argues that to be in your

element, you have to love what you do.

Vital to understanding who you are

Provides purpose and direction

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A good life is not measured by security,

wealth, status, achievement or levels of

happiness. A good life is determined by our

capacity for selflessness and our

willingness to connect with those around

us in a meaningful - Hugh McKay

Strategies – Benefit Mindset

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Strategies – Experiential learning

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• Originally a ‘local’ Boarding house

• ‘Morphed’ into an International Boarding House

• 50 Male students. 23 female students

• Separate buildings on campus

• Supported by an English Language Centre

• 90% students have limited English as a second language.

• Language barriers mean it is labour intensive

• Minimal parental involvement

• Minimal old boy alumni involvement

• Relatively disassociated from main school culture and

events

• TRANSITIONAL CHANGE. Structure, policy, process

TPS Boarding Context

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PeopleHow can our people enhance the “7 senses”?

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Programs & ProcessesHow can we design and deliver programs

that enhance the “7 senses”?

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Physical InfrastructureHow can our physical infrastructure better promote the

“7 senses”?

“Community is not something you have, like pizza. Nor is it something you can

buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies ……. It

expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to

each other…….” James Howard Kunstler, The Geography of Nowhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUVz4nRmxn4&li

st=PLwpfrY8bSkC6BYx7t0a246RNgRrgfIsyS Jaffray

boys’ playlist

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So - what COULD you do?People Programs &

Processes

Physical

Infrastructure

Resources

Sight

Sound

Smell

Taste

Touch

Balance

Intuition

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Parting thoughts

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“Life can be understood backwards, but can only be lived forwards”

Seren Kierkegaard

Brave - Wenona School

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Thank you & best wishesChris Menagé

cmmenage@gmail.com0412 555 640

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