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SECOND GENERATION MIDDLE
SCHOOLING: WHERE TO NOW?


         Dr Catherine Hart
      Luther College, Croydon
OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION
• The research study – the evolution of middle
  schooling at Luther College

• The Middle Schooling Movement in Australia:
  An overview

• First generation middle schooling

• Towards second generation middle
  schooling – opportunities and challenges

• Where to from here?
Premise of study


First generation middle schooling is
unfinished and exhausted

Second generation of middle schooling
emerging

Focus on transformative pedagogies to
promote lifelong learning needed
Research Aims
Exploration of polemics of middle schooling at
Luther College with specific focus on:

 Examining the principles and practices
  underlying the establishment of middle
  schooling at Luther College

 Exploring the current principles and practices of
  middle schooling at Luther College

 Identifying the opportunities and challenges of
  second generation middle schooling at Luther
  College
The Research Study

Small-scale pilot study: single case study
site – two „snapshots‟

Data collection: Literature review,
document analysis, key informant
interview, participant observation

Time frame: March-September 2011
The Middle Years


Defining the „Middle Years‟

Distinct learning needs

Concept of risk – deficit model?
Middle Schooling


Middle schooling does not have one
generic meaning, in the Australian context
it is generally taken to mean a progressive
approach to curriculum, pedagogy and
assessment (and sometimes
organisational) practices that are
responsive to the developmental needs of
young learners in their social context
The Middle Schooling Movement in Australia
First Generation Middle Schooling characterised by:

• A range of specific middle years projects across Australia
• The inclusion of middle years schooling in broad national
  educational initiatives
• The production of middle schooling ideas and resources by
  a range of formal agencies
• Research on middle schooling by Australian academics
• The rise of middle schooling professional associations
• The introduction of middle schooling units and programs in
  pre-service and postgraduate teacher education courses
• The recognition of middle schooling in the policies and
  activities of a diverse range of school education agencies
• The increasing adoption of middle schooling in educational
  institutions across the spectrum in most Australian States.
Beyond the Middle

First generation middle schooling was unfinished
because it had not secured systemic approaches
or high intellectual demand. It also found that the
movement was exhausted as it was a decade
old and had not kept apace with the rapid
changes in students‟ lives




Beyond the middle: A report about literacy and numeracy development of target group
students in the middle years of schooling (Luke, Elkins, Weir, Land, Carrington, Dole,
Pendergast, Kapitzke, van Kraayenoord, Moni, McIntosh, Mayer, Bahr, Hunter,
Chadbourne, Bean, Alverman, & Stevens; 2003)
Luther College


Established in 1964 by the Lutheran
Church of Australia as a Year 7-12
Co-educational Boarding school

Luther College offers a program of “Christian
education which serves students, parents, the
church, the community and strives for excellence
in the development and creative use by all
students of their God-given talents”
Snapshot 1: 1997-2001
Victorian context

1997: Middle School Planning Group [MSPG]
established and Terms of Reference for middle
schooling at Luther identified:
  1. Improving school family relationships, teaching and
     learning and student involvement for the middle
     years
  2. Improving its transition program and the education
     offering for the middle years
Snapshot 1 cont.
1998: Luther College Middle School Report
(Independent Education Consultant) endorsed
suggestions of the MSPG

Middle School Unit established – years 7-9,
staged implementation (1999-2001), Head of
Middle School, Year 7 Transition Coordinator,
Year 8 and 9 Coordination subsumed into other
roles, introduction of Focus Teachers in Year 7
Characteristics of First Generation middle
            schooling at Luther
LEADERSHIP

I just read the literature and immersed myself in it … Now
as I read the literature and got on top of the area I started
to draw some broad directions around things that we
needed to do… a lot of the literature just spoke to me
about good principles of learning … I also was and do
believe that Middle Schooling if it is done well, is the
answer to a whole lot of the other chestnuts of schooling
like boys education and a whole lot of things that provide
literacy across the curriculum.
Characteristics of First Generation middle
            schooling at Luther
LEADERSHIP cont.

it takes a lot of patience and it takes minute chipping
away and persistence and a determination that you are
going to get there but you will have a hundred different
ways of getting there and so the change process is
messy and tricky and you will have lots of fights and
tussles along the way with people who think they know
better or believe there are other realities that need to be
dealt with.
Characteristics of First Generation middle
            schooling at Luther
LEADERSHIP cont.

a metaphor that works for me was this tumbleweed that I
started rolling and what I had to do all the time was pull
the other bits of the weed in as it kept rolling and make
sure that when I made a strategic decision, the whole ball
kept moving and that all the parts of the ball sat in
relation to one another
Characteristics of First Generation middle
           schooling at Luther
TEACHER TEAMING

• The role of the Focus teacher
• Primary teachers within a perceived secondary
  school setting – the prevalence of „two-tiered‟
  thinking
Characteristics of First Generation middle
            schooling at Luther
INTEGRATED CURRICULUM

I started with nothing, I had to bring people around to
understand what integration was because none of these
things were in place in the school. What I did know was
that I had some good teachers in the school and I had to
re-culture them and get them to understand the
foundations. I did an enormous amount of PD
[professional development]. Everyone who was a Focus
teacher in those days went to a lot of PD and
conferences, to begin to talk the language, you had to
have a common language.
Characteristics of First Generation middle
           schooling at Luther
LEGITIMISING MIDDLE SCHOOLING

• The Middle School
• Varied teaching and learning strategies
Snapshot 2: 2010-2011
Luther College today: 1200 students, 160 staff,
no boarders, significant demand (significant
increase in Luther education across Australia –
85 schools, over 35,000 students), laptop school,
arrival of new Principal April 2010, a new 5 year
strategic plan

A decade later the social milieu is quite different

I arrive at Luther College as a Year 7 Focus
teacher and Senior English teacher in July 2010
Middle Schooling at Luther College today
Significant „wins‟

Significant challenges – significant growth of
school population, change fatigue, staff attrition,
interrupted learning continuum, competing
curricular demands, erosion of Focus teacher
role….

First generation middle schooling still evident?
Moves towards whole school pedagogical renewal

• Leadership restructure to allow greater focus
  on pedagogy

• Time for depth of learning

• Professional learning communities

• Research and evidenced based practice
Where to now?

• Re-visioning of a shared philosophy of Middle School

• Forecasting rather than backcasting

•   Learning spaces

• ICT

• Blurring Curriculum boundaries

• Signature pedagogies?
Second generation middle schooling where to now

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Second generation middle schooling where to now

  • 1. SECOND GENERATION MIDDLE SCHOOLING: WHERE TO NOW? Dr Catherine Hart Luther College, Croydon
  • 2. OVERVIEW OF PRESENTATION • The research study – the evolution of middle schooling at Luther College • The Middle Schooling Movement in Australia: An overview • First generation middle schooling • Towards second generation middle schooling – opportunities and challenges • Where to from here?
  • 3. Premise of study First generation middle schooling is unfinished and exhausted Second generation of middle schooling emerging Focus on transformative pedagogies to promote lifelong learning needed
  • 4. Research Aims Exploration of polemics of middle schooling at Luther College with specific focus on:  Examining the principles and practices underlying the establishment of middle schooling at Luther College  Exploring the current principles and practices of middle schooling at Luther College  Identifying the opportunities and challenges of second generation middle schooling at Luther College
  • 5. The Research Study Small-scale pilot study: single case study site – two „snapshots‟ Data collection: Literature review, document analysis, key informant interview, participant observation Time frame: March-September 2011
  • 6. The Middle Years Defining the „Middle Years‟ Distinct learning needs Concept of risk – deficit model?
  • 7. Middle Schooling Middle schooling does not have one generic meaning, in the Australian context it is generally taken to mean a progressive approach to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment (and sometimes organisational) practices that are responsive to the developmental needs of young learners in their social context
  • 8. The Middle Schooling Movement in Australia First Generation Middle Schooling characterised by: • A range of specific middle years projects across Australia • The inclusion of middle years schooling in broad national educational initiatives • The production of middle schooling ideas and resources by a range of formal agencies • Research on middle schooling by Australian academics • The rise of middle schooling professional associations • The introduction of middle schooling units and programs in pre-service and postgraduate teacher education courses • The recognition of middle schooling in the policies and activities of a diverse range of school education agencies • The increasing adoption of middle schooling in educational institutions across the spectrum in most Australian States.
  • 9. Beyond the Middle First generation middle schooling was unfinished because it had not secured systemic approaches or high intellectual demand. It also found that the movement was exhausted as it was a decade old and had not kept apace with the rapid changes in students‟ lives Beyond the middle: A report about literacy and numeracy development of target group students in the middle years of schooling (Luke, Elkins, Weir, Land, Carrington, Dole, Pendergast, Kapitzke, van Kraayenoord, Moni, McIntosh, Mayer, Bahr, Hunter, Chadbourne, Bean, Alverman, & Stevens; 2003)
  • 10. Luther College Established in 1964 by the Lutheran Church of Australia as a Year 7-12 Co-educational Boarding school Luther College offers a program of “Christian education which serves students, parents, the church, the community and strives for excellence in the development and creative use by all students of their God-given talents”
  • 11. Snapshot 1: 1997-2001 Victorian context 1997: Middle School Planning Group [MSPG] established and Terms of Reference for middle schooling at Luther identified: 1. Improving school family relationships, teaching and learning and student involvement for the middle years 2. Improving its transition program and the education offering for the middle years
  • 12. Snapshot 1 cont. 1998: Luther College Middle School Report (Independent Education Consultant) endorsed suggestions of the MSPG Middle School Unit established – years 7-9, staged implementation (1999-2001), Head of Middle School, Year 7 Transition Coordinator, Year 8 and 9 Coordination subsumed into other roles, introduction of Focus Teachers in Year 7
  • 13. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther LEADERSHIP I just read the literature and immersed myself in it … Now as I read the literature and got on top of the area I started to draw some broad directions around things that we needed to do… a lot of the literature just spoke to me about good principles of learning … I also was and do believe that Middle Schooling if it is done well, is the answer to a whole lot of the other chestnuts of schooling like boys education and a whole lot of things that provide literacy across the curriculum.
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  • 17. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther LEADERSHIP cont. it takes a lot of patience and it takes minute chipping away and persistence and a determination that you are going to get there but you will have a hundred different ways of getting there and so the change process is messy and tricky and you will have lots of fights and tussles along the way with people who think they know better or believe there are other realities that need to be dealt with.
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  • 19. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther LEADERSHIP cont. a metaphor that works for me was this tumbleweed that I started rolling and what I had to do all the time was pull the other bits of the weed in as it kept rolling and make sure that when I made a strategic decision, the whole ball kept moving and that all the parts of the ball sat in relation to one another
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  • 21. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther TEACHER TEAMING • The role of the Focus teacher • Primary teachers within a perceived secondary school setting – the prevalence of „two-tiered‟ thinking
  • 22. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther INTEGRATED CURRICULUM I started with nothing, I had to bring people around to understand what integration was because none of these things were in place in the school. What I did know was that I had some good teachers in the school and I had to re-culture them and get them to understand the foundations. I did an enormous amount of PD [professional development]. Everyone who was a Focus teacher in those days went to a lot of PD and conferences, to begin to talk the language, you had to have a common language.
  • 23. Characteristics of First Generation middle schooling at Luther LEGITIMISING MIDDLE SCHOOLING • The Middle School • Varied teaching and learning strategies
  • 24. Snapshot 2: 2010-2011 Luther College today: 1200 students, 160 staff, no boarders, significant demand (significant increase in Luther education across Australia – 85 schools, over 35,000 students), laptop school, arrival of new Principal April 2010, a new 5 year strategic plan A decade later the social milieu is quite different I arrive at Luther College as a Year 7 Focus teacher and Senior English teacher in July 2010
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  • 28. Middle Schooling at Luther College today Significant „wins‟ Significant challenges – significant growth of school population, change fatigue, staff attrition, interrupted learning continuum, competing curricular demands, erosion of Focus teacher role…. First generation middle schooling still evident?
  • 29. Moves towards whole school pedagogical renewal • Leadership restructure to allow greater focus on pedagogy • Time for depth of learning • Professional learning communities • Research and evidenced based practice
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  • 31. Where to now? • Re-visioning of a shared philosophy of Middle School • Forecasting rather than backcasting • Learning spaces • ICT • Blurring Curriculum boundaries • Signature pedagogies?