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Upgrading how teachers teach

The way teachers teach has not really changed in 150 years and it is time for it to be updated. Teaching students how to read and write and do maths will remain central to the teacher’s role. But how they teach will change slightly.

It is known today that every child learns differently – by either seeing, hearing or being hands-on with information. Sometimes learning is a combination of all three. No one way of learning is better than the other.

Updated teaching practice will help teachers identify how your child learns best. The teacher will create a learning program to cater to the way your child learns. This type of teaching is called personalised learning. For example, if your child is a seeing (visual) learner, their program will include lots of diagrams and pictures. A hearing (aural) learner may spend more time listening to or participating in discussions. While hands-on (tactile) learners will do activities that they can feel and touch.

The design of the new schools will provide the right environment for personalised learning to happen. The traditional classroom will be opened up to provide bigger open learning spaces. In primary schools there will be:

quiet reading areas
areas for discussion groups
wet areas for hands-on activities, such as art and science
technology areas with laptops and internet access.

The layout will be similar in secondary schools but spaces will be designed to meet the needs of secondary students with features such as science laboratories and digital arts studios.

Several teachers will work in each learning space to guide students through their learning. All of the changes will help give your child an even better education.