Presentation for Mentone Grammar January 2020

8. What do we want the children we
teach to be like as adults?

9. The Residuals of Education
• Curious
• Sceptical
• Open-minded
• Imaginative
• Strategic
• Metacognitive
• Reflective
• Truth Seekers
• Inquisitive
• Responsible
• Independent
• Listeners
• Adventurous
• Inventive
• Original
• Creative
• Flexible
• Questioning
• Risk-takers
• Mindful
• Considerate
• Full of Wonder
• Compassionate
• Balanced

14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkPrmZ9Ux8w

19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzpFrxoXQvA

23. The Race
• 400-600 miles, non-stop Primal Quest
• Adventure Race
• Multi-disciplinary, expert teams
• Unknown terrain, multiple routes
• Challenges: mental and physical
exhaustion, navigational errors, injury
• 75-95 teams each year
• 55% of teams do not finish
• Avg age=37, Avg exp=5.5 yrs
• $250,000 purse

25. How do claims of knowing vary across teams?

42. “Teaching is fundamentally a
creative act. The work we do with
our students is our art, and there is
no one who can tell us how to make
that art.”
Tina Blythe

43. T: @cpaterso
E: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.au