2. • 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”
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9. 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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10. 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
TFHQ Omo soccer free play
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13. 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)”.
Fadel, Bialik & Trilling. Four
Dimensional Education
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16. “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
19. So - what DO you already do?
People Programs &
Processes
Physical
Infrastructure
Resources
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch
Balance
Intuition
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23. . 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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24. Intuitive Synergy
Human 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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25. 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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26. 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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28. • 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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36. Physical Infrastructure
How 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
38. So - what COULD you do?
People Programs &
Processes
Physical
Infrastructure
Resources
Sight
Sound
Smell
Taste
Touch
Balance
Intuition
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42. Thank you & best wishes
Chris Menagé
cmmenage@gmail.com
0412 555 640
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https://www.etsu.edu/uged/etsu1000/documents/Dales_Cone_of_Experience.pdf
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• Hollingworth, P. 2015. The Light and Fast organisation. Wiley
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDeHCh7dHD4
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