Capabilities for Learning - Community of Practice - Thursday 17 June

The focus of this session was to acknowledge the common language we share in the NZC, and the varied ways in which in-school contexts are vehicles for the key competencies (capabilities) and student agency. 
 
Building on our community of practice from last term, we began by taking a deep dive into the ‘thinking’ and ‘managing self’ key competencies. It was interesting to think about the many different ways in which we think.
 
We then used the knowledge about the key competencies to notice how they were being taught in the context of inquiry/project based learning. Each school presented an example of the teaching at their school. There is great value in sharing our practice across schools and the morning tea break provided an opportunity to continue conversations and find out more from each other.
 
As we listened to each other’s presentations, we noticed how the thinking and managing self competencies were being taught both explicitly and implicitly through the project based/inquiry teaching. And to finish we began mapping the teaching of these competencies across our learning pathway from year 0 to year 13. 
 
Our intention is to continue building on this record as we explore different contexts. Next term’s context will be science.

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