TEACHER ZONE

Welcome to The Teacher Zone for the Pymble Passport. 

This section of the website houses a collection of information for the staff of Pymble to:

• understand the purpose of Passport and its overarching aims linked to the College's strategic plan

• view the Program for specific year groups and the corresponding resources 

Passport serves as a digital curation space that girls will use to construct an ever-evolving personal brand that celebrates both success and failure in an intentional fashion with the intent of developing a platform and identity that will support future work endeavours and partnerships.

Senior Executive

The Senior Executive were presented with the concept of the Pymble Passport for feedback and consultation in Term 3, 2020. You can view the presentation here. 

Executive

The Executive were presented with the concept of the Pymble Passport for feedback and consultation in Term 3, 2020. You can view a video of presentation here

Year 12

Aim : to create a personal branding profile for student leaders in the secondary school and introduce Portfolium as a tool for sharing with external audiences. 

In the Term 2 holidays, we ran the first pilot for the Pymble Passport with Year 12 student leaders and 7-11 students from the SRC invited to participate. This trial was designed in collaboration with Kathryn Taylor from Turning Point Consulting. The Passport was called a 'Personal Profile' at this stage. The students were asked to connect via Teams over three online sessions to develop their portfolio using existing information about themselves.   You can access links to their Passports here. 

• Session 1 recording (30/6/2020)

• Session 2 recording (7/7/2020)

• Session 3 recording (14/7/2020)

Year 10

Aim : to build their own checklist of behaviours for each progression of the Grit Tenacity Perseverance and Resilience dimension. 

In Term 4, Year 10 students were introduced to the Pymble Passport through their Transition Program. Students will view a presentation on the future of learning at Pymble with focus on the capability of Character from the Deep Learning framework. During the presentation, we will unpack the development of Character through the Learning Progressions and look at the dimension of Empathy, Compassion and Integrity as an example.

View the presentation here. This was followed by an activity  guided by their Connect teachers unpack the Deep Learning Learning Progressions for Character and Citizenship to introduce them to the concept of personal growth within the Pymble Passport. In the workshops groups identified behaviours for the Grit Tenacity Perseverance and Resilience dimension using the Y Chart protocol.  

The following week, Year 10 were asked to create their Passport in the Personalising your Passport session as part of the Future You Festival. They were required to set up their profile and add in a project, their resume and cover letter. The Digital Learning Leaders and Inquiry Learning Leaders facilitated sessions during the program to help girls set up their Passport. The list of URLs for the students' Passports can be found here.

Furthermore, students engaged with a Mock Interview experience where ex-Pymble students simulated a job interview for a role at Coles Supermarkets or an internal student leadership role at the College. 

Resources from this experience are below: 

• I’ve recorded a screencast to walk through the session, you can access this here

• Website for the students is here https://bit.ly/FutureYouFestival2020

• The program for the Future You Festival 

• Here is the recording from the meeting Justin and Kim had with the Connect Teachers to prep them for session with the students as a follow up to your workshop.

Year 8

In Term 4, Year 8 students were introduced to the Pymble Passport through their Year 8 into 9 Transition program which focused on empathy, compassion and integrity. View the presentation here

Students were asked to complete an activity guided by their Connect teachers unpack the Deep Learning Learning Progressions for Character and Citizenship to introduce them to the concept of personal growth within the Pymble Passport.

Digital Pathways: Summer Series

In the 2020 Summer holidays, a Careers Kickstarter course was designed for Year 9-12 

Video of Sessions and the outline of the course can be viewed here

• Johnson, W., 2018. Why Talented People Don’t Use Their Strengths. [online] Harvard Business Review. Available at: <https://hbr.org/2018/05/why-talented-people-dont-use-their-strengths> [Accessed 15 February 2021].

• SMH Article, July 2020: Call for 'learner profile' of students to end dominance of ATAR

• Handbook of Research on ePortfolios, edited by Ali Jafari, and Catherine Kaufman, IGI Global, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pymblelc/detail.action?docID=3308982.

• Eportfolio Examples - Auburn University https://wp.auburn.edu/writing/eportfolio-project/eportfolio-examples/

• 2020 Eportfolio Forum Online - Peer Reviewed Papers https://eportfoliosaustralia.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/2020-eportfolio-forum-online-ebook-of-shortened-peer-reviewed-papers-271020.pdf 

• Burke, J., 2019. Well-being of students starts to decline from the moment they enter secondary school. [online] The Conversation. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/well-being-of-students-starts-to-decline-from-the-moment-they-enter-secondary-school-119260> [Accessed 22 February 2021].

• Leigh, A. and Heifetz, R., 2003. Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading. The Leadership Quarterly, [online] 14(3), pp.347-356. Available at: <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKrSGvWnZAfmt2F23QqaL9_LTnbbtBGc/view?usp=sharing>.