MLE 
MODERN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 
standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on Robinson, The Element: How Finding your Passion Changes everything
Open Spaces
Visibility
Agile Furniture
Collaborative Teaching 
One Teach, One Observe: 
One Teach, One Assist 
Parallel Teaching 
Station Teaching 
Alternative Teaching 
Team Teaching 
Observing each other and analysing and 
discussing afterwards. 
One maintains primary responsibility, other 
assists learners in need. 
Two teachers, two groups of students, both 
being taught the same thing. 
Different content taught by different teachers, 
students rotate around stations. 
One teacher takes responsibility for a large 
group while another conveys specialist 
attention. 
‘One brain, two bodies’ teachers teach the 
same thing at the same time to the same 
students.
“My Kids” to “Our Kids”
Changing of Relationships
Learner Centered Curriculum
Learner Agency
Knowledge Building 
Curriculum 
itself, to “fill” up students with existing knowledge, its what students Jane Gilbert
Future Focused Curriculum 
recognize that they have a stake in the future, and a role and responsibility NZ Curriculum Principles
Deprivatisation of Practice
Personalised 
Individualised 
Differentiated
TKAS Story
Ed Talks Channel 
• The first step to considering modern learning 
environments is to start with learning.
Area School’s Potential
begin to hope it can be done, then they see how it can be done— 
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

MLE Area Schools Conference Presentation