The school experience

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The school experience Kevin McCabe Birmingham
City Council
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• 'It is hard to remember that you came to drain
  the swamp when you are up to your backside in
  crocodiles.'

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You will always get what you have always got, by
doing what you have always done!
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Much educational change is akin to rearranging
the deckchairs on the Titanic.One can never
consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to
soarHelen KellerWhy walk when you can
fly?Ten geographers who think the world is
flat will tend to reinforce each others errors
. Only a sailor can set them straight..
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Its the curriculum, stupid!

• time for a change
• develop a more interesting curriculum
• create opportunities for pupils to see themselves
  as part of the wider world
• provide an audience
• build self-esteem of the community and children
  (we have a contribution to make)
• challenge pre-conceptions of the world
• provide a cultural aspect in a cultural desert.

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ISA - the start of the beginning

• the decision and the reward
• reward for the school community for the work they
  had done
• standards improving
• confidence to go on, to take a risk (challenge to
  status quo)
• major curriculum change
• action research (whats going on out there?)
• regular visitors (were ok, youre ok).

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Practicalities

• Comenius project
• global partnership
• different approaches organisational structures
• best CPD in 30 Years

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Global Schools Partnership with India

• Go, See, Hear (and Listen) your life will never
  be the same
• the 4,500 pupils
• teaching and learning
• Annual Day
• stereotyping
• your little village
• Loretto and the children

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Where to next

• learning styles
• personalised learning
• enquiry-based learning
• IBO PYP
• IPC
• New Basics, Queensland
• Annual Day

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Wider world

• networking of schools
• sharing of ideas
• promotion of staff
• recruitment and retention of staff
• recruitment and retention of parents
• and pupils
• further opportunities

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Why?

• you
• your children
• your school
• your community
• the difference

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• 'The future is here.
• It's just not widely distributed yet.'
• William Gibson