New Furniture!

No doubt you have already heard about the new furniture that arrived in the Zone this week. It's been a long wait but most of it is now here. We are still awaiting some new chairs and seating for our Zone library space.

 

This week's KORU value was Excellence and we have spent time thinking about what excellence is. Here is what we decided Excellence looks like for the learners of Zone 31.

Ways we can help each other be excellent

• Encourage each other to keep trying. Don’t let them give up.
• Listen to the speaker.
• Explain how to work things out rather than giving someone the answer.
• Help them by showing them where they can get some help from e.g. Khan Academy, posters on the wall, text books, Google Classroom
• Sitting and paying attention to what the learning is e.g. not talking, fidgeting, bumping
• Leave the X’s clear so the right people can sit on them.
• Share ideas with each other, give an example
• Don’t distract others when they’re trying to learn
• Give feedback and feedforward
• Use a learning buddy/partner

Maps, conferences, and designs

This week has been full to overflowing with sharing ideas about learning. We completed our learning maps that help us to talk about the people, places and things that help us learn. We used these to share with our families and find ways to strengthen our learning. At the end of the conferences we had a learning goal and all of the people in our learning triangle now what we need to do to help our learners achieve those goals. Thanks to everyone who managed to share!

Some of the common themes that we heard were learners loving the library space because it was quiet and comfortable. We are all thinking now about how we can create more quiet and comfort around Zone 31.

Next we spent some time designing our learning space using furniture like the ones in Rooms 5-8. We have some very talented designers in our room. Take a look at some of their ideas!