Teaching Philosophy

Tudor House's learning philosophy is based on the traditional belief we should empower and engage boys by providing a broad scope of learning opportunities.  This is holistic education.

We innovate on this belief to prepare our boys for a future of change.

School must prepare learners for the future.  We are living in an expansionist era – where technology doubles every eighteen months, where global markets and empires are rising and falling, where the future for our learners will be vastly different to how we live today.  At Tudor we see the future with excitement not fear.  Our learning and teaching philosophy is visionary and will prepare your son well in so many ways. 

Our unique VAHS model of learning

Values

The foundations of any school should be based on what we term the new 3Rs…

1. Respect for self, others and property
2. Responsibility for thoughts, words and actions
3. Relationships that support and last a lifetime

Engagement

From these roots, comes the foundational element of success in learning: engagement.  No teacher can better a child’s understanding if they are not engaged in the activity or task.

Positive Attitudes

• Success in learning stems from a learner developing and refining key attitudes…
• Confidence – being able to take on a challenge believing one can do it
• Passion – finding something that one can commit to.  Success is deemed to stem from talent.  Research suggests talent requires 10 000 hours of endeavour. To commit this much time and energy, the learner must be passionate.
• Openness – having an open mind means we are accepting of new information and trusting in the process.
• Patience – in today’s busy society when things are more immediate than ever before, we need to teach the importance of being patient, allowing for time to let things settle.  Creative thoughts require time to distil.
• Persistence – sticking to a task is vital for challenges.
• Resilience – probably the key to success is being able to persevere and bounce back.

Negative attitudes are slugs

Each of these attitudes has a negative slug that sucks away at our positivity.  Consider the detrimental harm to learning of the following:

• engagement – procrastination
• confidence – anxiety; arrogance
• openness – narrow mindedness; ignorance
• patience – apathy; impulsivity
• persistence – boredom
• resilience – over-dependence

Good learning habits

To blossom as a learner, there is a need to have good learning habits.  Habits are learned and practiced.  We define the learning habits as…

• responsible risk taking
• organising
• researching
• reviewing
• sharing
• synthesizing
• innovating
• recalling
• creating

Key Learning Areas (KLAs)

Buzzing around these elements are the key learning areas of literacy, numeracy and technology.

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