Pedagogy of Primary School DesignPrimary Capital Programme

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Introduction

Agenda

What Why How

Building ICT into the pedagogy of primary school design

Building Programmes

• Academies• BSF Single School Pathfinders • BSF• Colleges for the Future• Primary Capital Programme• PFI and conventional funding

The Opportunity

• Curriculum changes (Rose report & recommendations)

• Workforce reform• Technology advances• Integrating building services

Rose Report – Independent review of the primary curriculum

decisions

Knowledge

Complexity

“You can not teach a child you do not know”

“A schools’ purpose is to provide a moral, cultural and economic (skills) learning opportunity”

Prof. Sir Tim Brighouse

Agenda

What Why How

Building ICT into the pedagogy of primary school design

• How are we in supporting 21st century learners?• Consider how designing 21st century schools can

support new ways of learning• How to plan for learning not buildings• What is available to help?

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•25%

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•10%

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Copy from the board or a book

Listen to a teacher talking for a long time Have a class discussion

Take notes while my teacher talks

Work in small groups to solve a problem

Have a drink of water when I need it

Work on a computer

Listen to background music

Have some activities that allow me to move around

Create pictures or maps to help me remember

Have a change of activity to help focus

Which three of the following do you do most often in class?

Spend time thinking quietly on my own

Talk about my work with a teacher

Learn things that relate to the real world

Teach my classmates about

Have people from outside to help me learn Learn outside in my school’s grounds

•33%

Classroom experience

•52%

•29%

•25%

•22%

•22%

•17%

•16%

•16%

•10%

•10%

•9%

•8%

•7%

•7%

•4%•3%

Copy from the board or a book

Listen to a teacher talking for a long time Have a class discussion

Take notes while my teacher talks

Work in small groups to solve a problem

Have a drink of water when I need it

Work on a computer

Listen to background music

Have some activities that allow me to move around

Create pictures or maps to help me remember

Have a change of activity to help focus

Which three of the following do you do most often in class?

Spend time thinking quietly on my own

Talk about my work with a teacher

Learn things that relate to the real world

Teach my classmates about

Have people from outside to help me learn Learn outside in my school’s grounds

•33%

Classroom experience 2007

Most preferred ways to learn (2007)

•55%

•39%

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•31%

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•19%

•16%

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•9%

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In Groups

By doing practical things

With friendsBy using computers

Alone

From teachers

From friends

By seeing things done

With your parents

By practicing

In silence

By copying

At a museum or library

By thinking for yourself

From others

Other

In which three of the following ways do you prefer to learn?

Pedagogical Change

Pedagogic approach swinging towards active, collaborative and personal learning.....

Need to establish:•What successful learning looks like• How you can provide a successful learning experience• What changes in pedagogic approach are desirable• What will be required from the learning spaces

Kenn Fisher 2007

Kenn Fisher 2007

Source Kenn Fisher

‘The classroom is the most visible symbol of an educational philosophy.’

Nair and Fielding 2005

Source: Schools for the FutureExemplar Designs, DfES

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Learning and teaching - evidence of change?

Gathering information(%)

Analysing information(%)

Being creative(%)

Problem solving(%)

Working with others

(%)

All or most lessons 2 * - 1 *

More than half of lessons 6 2 2 4 2

Around half of lessons 19 8 8 12 3

Less than half of lessons 56 60 46 54 19

Rarely/Never 17 29 44 30 75

Base: all primary teachers answering

612 612 610 607 605

Primary Teachers’ use of ICT in lessons for helping pupils learn in different ways

The Process

Procurement timeline 30-50 months

Vision Construction UsePre-

ConstructionConcept Design

Project Management

Change Management and Training

Strategic BriefDesign Brief

GeneralArrangements

ProductionInformation

ICT Solution

Mobilisation&

Construction

RIBA A-BPreparation

RIBA CConcept

RIBA D-F Design & Pre Construction

RIBA G-KConstruction

ICT

Design

Integrating ICT in Design Process

Strategic BriefDesign Brief

GeneralArrangements

ProductionInformation

Mobilisation&

Construction

Stage A-BPreparation

Stage CConcept

Stage D-F Design & Pre Construction

Stage G-KConstruction

ICT

Design

Integrating ICT in Design Process

Strategic BriefDesign Brief

ICT Brief

GeneralArrangements

ICT Interface

ProductionInformation

ICT Solution

Mobilisation&

Construction

RIBA A-BPreparation

RIBA CConcept

RIBA D-F Design & Pre Construction

RIBA G-KConstruction

ICT

Design

Summary• Anything is possible, be brave and plan for your learners

needs• Consider appropriate locations for different activities• Consider acoustics carefully and plan for noisy and quiet

activities• Create strong connections to the outdoor learning

environment• Furniture should be exciting and used to separate areas• Learning spaces can be changed using movable furniture• ICT should support the learner needs and go beyond PCs• Justify your choices in terms of learner needs and outcomes

Prakash NairFebruary 2008

‘BSF is building the best of the old.....not the first of the new’