1 Co-Construction #TMLondon December 2012 Tom Sherrington Headteacher, headguruteacher.com

2 Lifting the lid: learning without limits

High challenge Matching skills Intrinsic motivation + rewards Self-assessed with v. short feedback loop Self-directed, creative task giving complete learner autonomy High failure rate is part of the learning process Continual increase in challenge – always operating at the limit of skills Acting on feedback is key

4 Co-construction at KEGS Year 10 Physics – pioneer stage Year 7 RE – from pioneer stage to wider roll-out Year 9 ICT: Project 9 – fourth year, continuous evolution and refinement.

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9 Project 9 Year 9 ICT curriculum Modules chosen by students Learning led by Y10-13 ‘teachers’ Process coordinated by Y13 team Three x three hour sessions In our second year; project evolving

Topic TEACHERSMentor Digital Imaging/Photography (Photoshop) Becky Huddy 12F Sean Havis 10X Will Hopkins 10Z Nish Web Design (Kompozer) Tim Mortimer 12C Edward White 12G Sharanya Rajesekar 12C Hari Graphics and Design (Photoshop) Peter Warner 11Z Oliver Kesterton 10Y William Shorey 10W Nish All Y10/11 Programming (probably C#) Richard Meadows 11Y Iain Clark 12A David Wood 12C Kyle Siddarth 12E - floating Music Technology (Fruity Loops clone) Jonathan Baah Mensah 13B Ben Cooper 10Y Harry Inpadhas 10X Siv Stop Go Animation Alex Bailey 10V Conor Cooper 10V Matthew Spaul 10V Ted All Y10 3D Modelling (Blender) Will Luckin 10W Dan Lewis 10W Matthew Varnam 12E Kyle PC Building Sam Searles Bryant 12D James Murdey 10X Scott Jardine 12G Hari Flash Animation (CS4)Lewis Hardcastle 12D Justin Ho 12a Will Easton 10W Nirosh

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14 Year 7 British Museum ‘Family Learning’ Project All students are asked (told) to go with parents at weekends or holidays. They then create a response in any form that they choose.

15 Make it easy to make choices…….. Start simple and build it up.

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