Learning and Teaching Framework Launch
The Learning and Teaching Framework Launch
The Learning and Teaching Framework has been launched. As you will see below, it is an extensive and deeply developed document that has been the result of much consultation and collaboration between staff and students at the College.
Our official launch took place on Wednesday, August 2nd and was a blend of formality and celebration. It was the accumulation of hours of thinking, imagining, researching, citing, collaborating, listening, reworking, drafting and redrafting, developing and nurturing ideas - all actions that are distinctly human endeavours that seek to improve outcomes for learning and wellbeing.
The four pillars of Just, Purposeful, Informed and Engaging are defined in the Framework through statements of principles and beliefs held by all staff and students. Claire Cook, Emily Maguire and Lucinda Nolan commenced the process using foundational documents such as the Killester Learning Principles created in 2015, Kildare Ministries Living Justice; Living Peace document, Killester’s Mission and Vision statements, MACs Horizons of Hope, and their related Excel document, and then worked further with the rest of the Frameworks team to ensure the Framework was grounded in research.
An early draft was taken to the Leadership team for some feedback which was used to redraft the draft. After several months we took it to the Learning Area Leaders for further input, then this year to all staff and our student feedback team, a group of approximately 20 volunteers from all Year levels. The result is a living document that we plan to enhance by continually adding deeper levels of research, exemplars of what learning looks like when principles are applied, and further student voice so that they too have further agency in what, how and why they are learning.
We present it below for your feedback and questions so that we can continue to implement it across the College and our community.
Mr Stephen McPhail
AP: Learning and Teaching
