Schools that move to this type of reporting will usually stop providing individual student subject comments on semester reports The main benefit of this model is that students and parents receive feedback in a ‘timely’ manner about how the child is progressing. Having a good LMS is needed. Here is just one example./

We have long come to understand that our current environment does not best serve us. Learning works best when it is created together through discovery, and not when a teacher stands in front of 30 learners reading from a screen. It works when the learner directs their journey, and not when the scene is already engineered and laid out for them.

Phenomenon-based learning is a learner-centred, multidisciplinary instructional approach that is based on student inquiry and problem solving. … This means that a topic must be a real-world issue or “phenomena” and that learners need to apply different perspectives in order to study the topic.

Providing blocks of time for development of independence and responsibility can grow as age increases. Teacher presence will be strong with the younger students as they learn and practice the skills of independent schoolwork and responsibility.

Within boundaries and structures suitable for their age, implementing some Flexible Learning Periods (FLP) with the aim of capturing the very best aspects of what we have learned during Covid. This will allow us to structure time and place arrangements to optimise the experiences of learning exposed this year by a global pandemic for students old enough to benefit. 

I have concluded that our contemporary education systematically trashes creativity and unwittingly punishes students for exercising their imagination. The structural basis for this passive hostility to the imagination is the grid of learning outcomes in alignment with delivery and assessment. It might always be impossible to teach creativity but the least we can do for our students is make education a safe place for imagination.