A learning community is a group of people who share common academic goals and attitudes, who meet semi-regularly to collaborate on classwork. Such communities have become the template for a cohort-based, interdisciplinary approach to higher education.
Emerging Ideas:
Transition Classes
Composite Classrooms - Tuakana-Tiena
Schools need to plan ahead
Classroom visits- teacher to visit student in their surrounding and visa versa
System changes - communication between providers and outside agencies
Readings:
Emerging ideas:
Building positive relationships - Know the Child-Know the Child- Know the whanau
The student has a feeling of belonging, they are empowered and have less anxiety as they transition
There is a need for smoother handover between schools and also outside agencies- open communication
Below is a Powerpoint Presentation by Kirsty Huddleston and Terresa haggerty. This concept falls alongside the Mutukareo pilot programme run by the MOE in South Auckland
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ERO: Evaluation at a Glance: Transition from Primary School to Secondary School. November 2012
Education Leaders- Principal Case Study- Two Waikato Services seek to empower Whanau with
knowledge and Skills
Sabbatical Leave Report- Ros Powell- Somerset Crescent School- Transitioning 5 year olds to School-
November 2005