Future of Learning Radar
Thinking about the next three years, what are the five biggest changes or trends that you think could affect student learning?
Think broadly. Consider changes in technology, society, economics, politics, the environment, legislation and education itself. These might represent opportunities, threats or both.
Share one to five ideas. Five is ideal, but only share what you actually think.
Idea 1 of 5
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Step 2. School readiness
How prepared are schools to respond to this change?
Step 3. Leadership influence
How much influence do school leaders have over how their schools respond to this change?
Everyone's ideas
Live 60A refocusing on the importance of relationships: How you interact face to face, and building trust and maintaining it.
Students who don’t have English as a first language.
The change in our multicultural communities
Wellbeing of both students and teachers
Parents not parenting
A focus on quality teaching and teachers who use relationships as their lever for both increasing job enjoyment, retention but also student success
Quality of teaching .. newly trained teacher quality.
Support adequate for neurodiverse learners Engagement of students Parents ensuring students attend school Political change of curriculum
More and more neurodiverse students struggling tonlearn
Curriculum changes
Building capabilty in the sector from governance, leadership, teachers, learning assistants
Increased expectations that schools can control every child and every child’s behaviour and we can’t
Behaviour expectations
Teacher Capabilities
Unpreparedness for school, fine motor and gross motor skills due to lack of playing on playgrounds and being inside on tech
AI
Digital technolgy/well being/government i itiatives/cost of liviing/community expectations
AI- impact on teaching and learning
Resilience of Studnets and Families
Mental Health
Multifaceted element of teaching can we create environments where teachers can teach
Financial Climate
Learning and behaviour trends across NZ will impact greatly
Funding and how sustainable this is
Oral language development due to parents not talking to their children
Teacher capability
AI
The increasing use of AI and less thinking and the reduction of critical thinking.
Parent engagement
AI
AI and Tech Development. Pace of Change Resilience in kids Parent involvement Environment
Technology could impact on how students communicate or don’t communicate
AI, and how we interact with it
AI
Student engagement
Increase in ESOL learners
Future focussed learning- skills verses knowledge
AI
AI and technology exponential growth
Teachers: Need to work to develop social skills in our teachers
Kids: Our kids are anxious and lacking some key skills.
Shared Vision for our school's future
Funding: Our Budget will be increasingly squeezed, we need to continuously look to maximise the funds we have and look for additional income streams.
Frictionless life - apps at finger tips can do everything for you. Lack of kids growing through adversity. Leaning into the relational hard stuff
Parents: Increasingly anxious about their children, over reaching and heavily involved in their children's lives, we need to work with our parents AND our students to undo and work around this, building resilience self reliance
Shifting demographics and increased diversity
Desire for belongingness, connectedness
Growing number of big behaviours being experienced - trauma, neuro diversity etc
Increasing need to assist parents/caregivers in supporting their children socially and emotionally
What impact will the changing political landscape have on teaching and learning?
Curriculum Change: We need to leverage new curriculums and pedagogies to build/rebuild a rich broad curriculum for our learners, using a more wholistic approach to hours, outcomes and opportunities.
What other models are out there that will help us upskill teachers quickly so they can teach successfully using an inquiry-type model?
Skill and Dispositional Development, including inquiry and integrative approaches
Parents desire for School to be the vending machine of every possible opportunity for kids
How can we retain our focus on Competencies and Values, while still using leaning into the NZC?
Students use of AI in School
EDI
How will AI impact teaching and learning?
The balance between a structured approach to education and an inquiry approach to teaching and learning.
The arrival of AI and how it will impact learners.