iServi News | 16 August 2019 | Term 3, Week 4
Servite staff are committed to understanding the science of learning and the art of teaching. Socrates saw teaching as ‘a unique exchange between the teacher and the student’. John Hattie’s research establishes that it is how the teacher teaches rather than what the teacher teaches which has the greatest variable on student achievement. Research, therefore, continues to argue that what the teacher does to create an effective learning environment is one of the biggest influences on student learning.
Next Thursday and Friday, Servite staff will be learning more about how to maximise our students’ learning potential as they learn and work with leaders from the Berry Street Education model. Our teachers will be learning strategies for developing students’ self regulation and self awareness skills. In line with our Community vision, which is underpinned by positive education research, we will also be focusing on how we give students the opportunity to build their resilience so that they can thrive, not only at Servite College but in their lives beyond our campus gates.
The focus of the Berry Street Education model is being ‘learning ready’ and giving students the necessary strategies for this to happen; these strategies include the ability to self reflect and de-escalate heightened emotions and anxiety so that the working memory is maximised and the learning brain ‘turned on’. The model focuses on positive relationships between teachers and students.
Every week the Community team will be providing snapshots of the Berry Street Education model culminating in a parent information evening in Term 4. We look forward to sharing our professional learning with you and how we are striving to maximise your child’s potential in and out of the classroom.
Ms Roseanne Madden
Deputy Principal
