Creating is coming up with ideas.
Innovating is putting ideas into practice.
HEXAGONAL
CURRICULUM MAPPING
National Innovative Schools Award 2017: Hexagonal Curriculum Mapping
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“For developing Hexagonal Curriculum Mapping, a process where every stage syllabus outcome is printed on a hexagon and made visible on a shared wall. Teachers collaborate and design transdisciplinary units of work that are inquiry-based and driven by the design thinking process"
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Hexagonal Curriculum Mapping is now being implemented in schools across Australia in a variety of sectors and curricula.
We also have an online course for educators to learn and implement this methodology.
TRANSDISCIPLINARY LEARNING FRAMEWORK
ideatED has developed a Transdisciplinary Learning Framework to inform learning design.
We believe people learn best when natural connections are made. Intended and enacted learning is collaboratively designed, promoting explicit teaching and student choice and voice.
This is all achieved through an internationally proven and rigorous inquiry process. As a result, learners are empowered to become real-world problem finders and solvers.
Increased opportunities for assessment ensure every learner achieves through informed and effective differentiated learning opportunites.
LEARNER
METACOGNITION TOOLS
National Innovative Schools Award 2018: Conscious Competency Rubric
“For taking the concept of visible learning to an unprecedented level by embedding a competency rubric into the learning spaces of primary students. Based on Martin Broadwell’s research, the competency rubric helps learners articulate their learning growth”
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Students across the country are now using the Conscious Competency Rubric to help make their thinking visible by externalising and articulating their learning growth. This is enhancing student metacognition in learning communities beyond expectation.
A HEUTAGOGICAL PARADIGM FOR LEARNING
Alignment in pedagogy is highly desired, but what if we could align learning even further?
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Pedagogy = how students learn
Andragogy = how adults learn
Heutagogy = how learners learn
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Designing and implementing heutagogical structures and processes where a learning community develops and uses a shared language for learning. As a result, collective accountability is enhanced, creating a strong learning community culture. ideatED has developed A Heutagogical Paradigm for Learning. It is used to align and promote collective accountability for learning for all stakeholders across a learning community.
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These resources and many others are available through the Members Portal. Schools receive access to this portal as part of their partnership with ideatED.
Contact us to find out more.
Design Philosophy
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Just as our name suggests, ideatED is about working with learning communities to design and develop practical improvements in education.
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Our first principles of innovation in education include:
Begin with the end in mind
Borrowed from Stephen Covey, it tells us something simple yet powerful. First, we must name what it is that we intend to achieve - we define our WHY. We then explore HOW we get there. Finally, we plan and deliver with close alignment WHAT learners need, both as individuals and as part of a community.
Learner-centred
Facilitating learning and enhancing relationships must include using rigorous processes to promote more exploring and less telling. Determining the right conditions and aligning intended, enacted and assessed learning will elevate individual and collective retained learning. This is amplified when we can externalise and articulate what we think and have learned, especially when giving and receiving feedback from others.
​Synergic
This holistic approach to design considers the whole as something more important than the sum of its parts. These parts, though seemingly separate, are closely interrelated, as is every stakeholder, and when aligned, are powerful. Interconnections between every aspect of our learning community are visible. Problems of compartmentalisation and fragmentation are solved, all commonly found in education, resulting in the removal of gaps and overlaps.
​Continuous Improvement
We never arrive at our destination. It is genuinely about knowing and understanding where we are and strategically looking into the foreseeable future. We identify the quick wins to promote a learning culture, and we know and plan for what needs a little more time and concerted effort and resourcing. It is also about being flexible and looking for opportunities when problems and challenges arise. We pitch, we critique, we refine and reiterate to make it better.
​Well-defined systems
We thrive when we set ourselves and our communities up for success. We can achieve this through shared language, a solid communal understanding of where we are going and celebrating our success and legacies along the way. We remove the ambiguity by aligning everything we do with a robust learning framework that promotes collective accountability.
If these principles of innovating education resonate with you, get in touch and see what we can achieve together.