LEAVING TO LEARN: Strategies For Your School - 1 Day Workshop, WA

June 25, 2015
SWAN YACHT CLUB, East Fremantle

Facilitator: Viv White, Co-Founder BPEA
Co-facilitators: Eric Radice and Lisa Knight

This one-day workshop is for secondary school teachers interested in exploring out-of-school learning opportunities for their students. The workshop illustrates the Big Picture Education design’s approach, which sees ‘Leaving to Learn’ as an integral aspect of education that promotes engagement, motivation, confidence and creativity.

There are a range of opportunities for meaningful out-of-school learning which every school can implement and these experiences can be merged and integrated with in-school learning to provide optimum educational and personal achievement outcomes.

In the course we will explore:

• what leaving to learn can achieve
• opportunities to leave for learning
• how teachers and schools can support leaving to learn and how mentors in the community can support student learning
• the design and implementation of the Learning Through Internship  (LTI) program
• the mentor relationship – how to recruit, network, support and retain good community mentors

“We have a bold strategy for revitalizing schools and for graduating and preparing students for success in their future learning and work. This ‘leaving to learn’ strategy is driven by our image of that future. Our goals is not merely to graduate every student but to prepare graduates who are uncommonly ready for success in their workplaces, their families and their communities.”

Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski, “Leaving to Learn”

FURTHER INFORMATION
Lisa Knight- Big Picture Advisory Teacher Coach - 0401 242 049 - Lisa.M.Knight@outlook.com
Eric Radice -Yule Brook College Head of Team - 0419 940 199 - ericradice@outlook.com

“Learning Through Internships is the most engaging and successful ‘Leaving to Learn’ strategy I have experienced as a secondary leader. As Principal of Yule Brook College, I witnessed incredible transformations in disengaged students who made personal connections with a workplace mentor. Do not confuse traditional workplace learning programs with this innovative and effective model. Every school should consider the additional benefits students gain from an authentic real-world learning experience. Watching students pursue rigorous and meaningful learning in the classroom as a result of this connection convinced me of the value and benefit of a ‘Leaving to Learn’ approach.”

Janette Gee, President WASSSEA