
Contemporary learning prepares students with skills and capabilities to thrive in a rapidly changing and interconnected world. It connects students and engages their sense of curiosity.
Contemporary teachers at Northbourne Public School know and understand the needs and talents of their students. They are flexible and select from a range of effective teaching strategies.
Our contemporary and flexible learning environments inspire students to be leaders of their own learning. Students collaborate and use critical and creative thinking to solve complex problems and become mindful global citizens.
Innovative learning space is;
The learning modes for future-focused learning highlight different ways in which learning occurs. Each mode requires students and teachers to be interacting differently with space and each other.
When we are aware of, and can identify how we want learning to occur, it guides the decision making on the design of learning space and technology requirements that will best support the desired learning.
Space, furniture and technology can all help to enable learning modes that coexist or can be quickly and easily transitioned.
Collaboration: learn with others.
Discussion: talk about learning.
Feedback & reflection: learn about learning.
Guided: learn with an expert.
Explicit: learn from an expert.
Demonstration: presenting learning.
Experiential: make, explore, investigate.
Independent: learn by myself.
address
173 Northbourne Drive
Marsden Park NSW 2765
telephone 02 9852 6100
We acknowledge the Darug people who are the Traditional Custodians of this Land and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future, for they will hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We would like to extend that respect to other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people present. We must always remember that under the concrete and asphalt this land is, was and always will be traditional Aboriginal land.
Copyright for this website is owned by the State of New South Wales through the Department of Education. For more information go to https://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/footer/copyright.