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Barker Institute Events for Semester 1, 2023

...h the community launch of the Lift@Barker project. Parents, students, teachers, and the wider community are warmly welcomed to our events. More events for Term 2 and Semester 2 will be announced soon.Coeducation...

Publication of the 6th Edition of Learning in Practice: The Barker Institute Journal

...pastoral care and wellbeing leaders, or school leaders. Learning in Practice is a published conversation in which reflections on practice take place, and professional learning and development benefit.Coeducation...

The Barker Junior School Journey: Reporting on Years 3-6 from 2019-2022

... year. The subjects of the study are a group of students who celebrated the conclusion of their primary schooling in 2022. Detailed results reporting on the first four years have recently been shared.Coeducation...

The Barker Junior School Journey: Report on Year 3-6 from 2019-2022

...a group of students who celebrated the conclusion of their primary schooling in 2022. The significance of this milestone was underlined by the current Barker Journey cohort also being the first fully Coeducational primary school year group to progress through Year 3-6 at Barker. This article presents an overview of the primary school phase of the Barker Journey project, 2019-2022. In so doing, it presents a ...

Student wellbeing in a coeducational context

...nships enhance wellbeing and learning. Pastoral care structures that support, connect and create a sense of belonging for all students are also touched on as an important element in student wellbeing.Coeducation...

The Barker Journey study amidst COVID-19: Analysis of Year 4 interviews

... time. This iteration not only illuminates the students’ personal growth on an individual level, but tracks important turning points in the School at an institutional level, such as the transition to Coeducation. This report examines the 2020 interview responses. It investigates the dominant recurring themes of the study (relationships, values, ...

Teaching in a Coeducational Classroom

... Plato in his Republic wrote that educating men and women together would foster a feeling of equality, based on their ability to learn rather than gender. Yet more than 2000 years later debates about Coeducation persist. As classroom teachers we know that there is no definitive ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ way of learning, there are only generalisations. Good classroom teachers tailor their lessons to meet the learning n...

The Barker Journey: Lessons from cohort 1

... a Barker context or elsewhere. It discusses the results of the study and also outlines the parameters of the next phase of research, whereby the study is recommencing in 2019 within the School’s new Coeducational context....

The Barker Journey: The commencement of cohort 2

... Barker students, thus exploring what the School offers beyond the typically recognised academic and co-curricular success. The participants, the class of 2028, will be the first cohort to experience Coeducation at Barker from Year 3 to 12. This report briefly outlines the methodology used throughout the research project and examines what the Year 3 interviews from 2019 reveal about the students’ journeys so...

A blended learning approach to formative assessment

...and content development of each student in the class. This in turn opens avenues for personalisation and differentiation of content, a particularly pertinent point as the school moves towards a fully Coeducational environment....

Girls' interest, enjoyment and participation in secondary school mathematics

...the purpose of the Travelling Fellowship was to identify ways that girls’ interest, enjoyment and participation in secondary school mathematics can be increased and to provide key recommendations for Coeducational mathematics teachers. This paper is a brief summary of the full report tabled to the Barker Foundation, to which the author extends his thanks for its generous financial support of this Travelling ...

Gender and technology

...Institute Journal. Firstly, Design and Technology teachers are planning and disseminating the new mandatory Technology Syllabus (NESA 2017) in 2019 and 2020. Secondly, Barker is transitioning to full Coeducation by 2022. It is imperative to conduct a literature review on gender and technology. Cai, Fan & Du (2017) discuss a gender attitudinal gap, but then go on to state that when the general attitude wa...

The untended garden: Reflections on designing and implementing a teaching and learning framework within a coeducational, international school context

...r is to reflect on the development of a quality teaching and learning framework within a Coeducational, international school context. Using an international school based in Germany, and its partnerships with other German national schools, this paper will posit that for the successful development of ...

The Barker Journey – Year 7, 2023 Nurturing Learning Relationships

..., tracking a group of students on their ten-year educational journey culminating with Year 12 in 2028. Now in Year 7, some of these students first participated in this research in Year 3 as the first Coeducational year group in Years 3-6 at Barker, some others joined the Junior School later, and many moving from other schools to commence Secondary School at Barker in 2023. Consistent with previous publicatio...

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Flagship Project

... The current iteration of the Barker Journey study will end in 2028. This will be when the first fully Coeducational cohort to progress from Year 3 to Year 12 at Barker concludes their schooling. 2022 sees the study in its fourth year with the...

Coeducation

...ngayil and Dhupuma campuses. This important milestone in Barker’s story presents an opportunity to investigate the way in which transition to Coeducation has had an impact on student wellbeing and learning outcomes, tracking the effect of the transition to ...

Intercultural Education

...uages in today’s classroom in support of student learning and wellbeing (2020) – Timothy ScottThe untended garden: Reflections on designing and implementing a teaching and learning framework within a Coeducational, international school context (2019) – Timothy ScottRader, D 2015, Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding: Engaging young hearts and minds. Routledge: London and New York.Lo Bianco, ...

The Barker Journey Study

... The current iteration of the Barker Journey study will end in 2028 when Barker's first fully Coeducational cohort to progress from Year 3 to Year 12 concludes their schooling. Concluding 2022 was an important milestone - the culmination of the Ba...