What is relational trust and how is it developed? Each party in a relationship maintains an understanding of his or her role's obligations and holds some expectations about the obligations of the other parties. For a school community to work well, it must achieve agreement in each role relationship in terms of the understandings held about these personal obligations and expectations of others. An interrelated set of mutual dependencies are embedded within the social exchanges in any school community. Regardless of how much formal power any given role has in a school community, all participants remain dependent on others to achieve desired outcomes and feel empowered by their efforts. As individuals interact with one another around the work of schooling, they are constantly discerning the intentions embedded in the actions of others. They consider how others' efforts advance their own interests or impinge on their own self-esteem. They ask whether others' behavior refl...
“In my practice, if anything was possible I would love to shift towards a learner focused program. I imagine this could look like...”. It is term 4 at 8.30 in the morning and I enter into the senior classroom of Year 4 to 8 students. There are a group of students on devices being entertained with Mindcraft. I hear lots of dialogue about who is in what world, what should be built, and comments about one another's building projects. Some students are out of their seats helping younger classroom members. The bell rings to start the day and the students in the senior class automatically begin their days lessons that have been posted on Microsoft Teams. The morning starts off with the normal Maths and Literacy, however, all instruction is given within the Microsoft Teams. I work with the Year 4 students and those who are still low according to the National Progressions. These student are still learning strategies in both learning areas which will help them to work more indepen...
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