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ItemInnovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change: Final Research Findings(Innovative Learning Environments & Teacher Change, LEaRN, and the University of Melbourne., 2022-11-01)At the beginning of ILETC a clear mandate existed in government and academic conversations for these ‘innovative learning environments (ILEs) to have a primary aim of fostering students creative and critical thinking, and communicative and collaborative practices; this often was embedded in ‘21st Century Learning’ ambitions. There existed, however, a worrying paucity of quality research to act as a baseline for understanding this phenomenon. For this reason, ILETC adopted an exploratory design in seeking to document correlation between ‘good’ teacher use of ILEs and high levels of student deep learning.
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ItemA Day in the Life of a Student: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020-12-21)A Day in the Life of a Student workshop is a design thinking workshop developed by DLR Group (an integrated design firm) and adapted by the Innovative Learning Environment and Teacher Change project at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The activities involve educators mapping out how one student spends his/her day in school and building a model of the learning environment based on this one student. With an emphasis on the visual learning that comes from modelling experiences, this workshop helps participants develop student-improvement focused practices in innovative learning environments.
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ItemArchipelago of Possibilities: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020-12-21)Archipelago of Possibilities is a strategy and professional development workshop created specifically to help teachers and educators uncover what they hold dear in their teaching practice and discover what they consider most important for a successful practice. This workshop uses travel as a metaphor to guide participants in reflecting on their practice, identifying successful factors for success, examining what is holding them back from achieving their ideal practice, and developing steps to create a future ideal teaching and learning space.
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ItemInnovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change Project Phase One Report 2016-2017(ILETC Project, 2017)The ILETC project presents a unique opportunity for a team of experts in education and architecture from across governments, schools, business and academia to co-design new solutions to the challenges of delivering 21st century learning to students in Australia and New Zealand. The Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change project (ILETC) commenced officially in June 2016. The aim of this 4 year project is to build understanding of how physical classroom space impacts on learning and how best to support teachers in making the most of the spaces in their schools. It will develop resources and strategies to support educators, school leaders, policy makers and architects in developing and inhabiting new learning spaces. In its busy first 18 months the project has not only accomplished all planned milestones, but has achieved extensive engagement with partners, teachers, architects and researchers both within Australasia and internationally. This highly efficient and collaborative, cross-disciplinary group has maximised the expertise of the project team and partners in building a comprehensive base of evidence about teaching in innovative learning spaces in Australasia. The group has made it a priority to not only conduct their research in an open and transparent way, with regular newsletter updates, blog posts and articles, but to publish findings as soon as data is analysed and share these with an ever growing following of educators, designers and other researchers. This report provides a summary of the project’s activities, findings and engagement in the first 18 months of research. It draws together the many outputs, events, media and activities to highlight some of the key discoveries and how these inform the next stage of investigations.
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ItemTeacher Mind Frames and Belief Systems: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020-10-13)The Teacher Mind Frames and Belief Systems workshop invites participants to explore how their beliefs shape the physical and experiential elements of the learning space they practice in. The workshop is based on the premise that teachers who exhibit the teacher mind frames as conceptualised by John Hattie1 are “more likely to have major impacts on student learning” (p.182). This workshop uses design thinking activities, specifically in the form of a persona tool, to help participants reflect on their mind frames and belief systems and then identify how this shapes their professional and teaching practices in innovative learning environments.
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ItemManaging Change in Innovative Learning Environments: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020)The Managing Change in ILEs workshop focuses on examining what types of supports are required to enable teachers to undertake change in their practices. The design thinking activities help participants visualise metaphors to help them describe the conditions in which changes in practice take place. These activities also describe the ideal system that would support teachers adapting and transitioning into innovative learning environments.
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ItemInnovative Learning Environments and Teacher Practices: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020)
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ItemInnovative Learning Environments and Student Learning: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020)The Innovative Learning Environments and Teacher Change (ILETC) project is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project funded for 4 years from 2016-2019. It brings together the expertise of leading researchers in education and learning environments and partner organisations in education and learning environment design and technology. The project is led by Associate Professor Wesley Imms, who heads a cross disciplinary team of researchers from the Melbourne Graduate School of Education and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at The University of Melbourne. The project is affiliated with the Learning Environments and Applied Research Network (LEaRN).
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ItemJourney Map: Facilitator Guide(Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne, 2020)The Journey Map workshop focuses on helping teachers better understand the journey they go on when they transition into an innovative learning environment. Participants complete a ‘journey-map’ activity, which encourages peer discussion around their formative teaching experiences. This is followed by individual reflections on what was done, felt and thought when transitioning into new learning spaces. With an emphasis on the social learning that comes from sharing concrete experiences, this workshop helps participants be explicit about their journey and learn from the experiences of their peers. Due to the nature and focus of the workshop, participants who have prior experience transitioning from a traditional space to one more innovative will gain the most benefit.