PROGRAM DESIGN
Developing Structures that Support Active Learning
FINDING BALANCE
As a program designer, my aim is to achieve a balance between structure and flexibility, both in course design and overall school structures. This balance ensures that teachers and students have the flexibility to design creatively while ensuring oversight over development in skills, knowledge and values. This can be challenging. To design authentic experiences that allow students to activate their learning, educators must aim to defragment structures like timetables and calendars so that learners can seize opportunities to activate learning in the real world. I have worked with school leadership teams and lead processes that work to align programs and structures with best practice, progressive learning principles and school values. These structures are intentionally designed to maintain flexibility so they can be adaptive and responsive to learners and real-world opportunities.
I have led processes described above to design:
- Timetables
- Academic Calendars
- School Planning Templates
- Professional Development Programs
- Curriculum Development Design Process
- Project-based Learning Process
- Service-learning Programs