Learning Rounds Building a Learning Community • Lesson observation in groups • Descriptive voice • Curriculum for Excellence • Improvement across a school or schools • Collegiate approach to learning and teaching • Creating capacity for leadership of learning • Professional development
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Learning RoundsBuilding a Learning
Community• Lesson observation in
groups• Descriptive voice• Curriculum for Excellence• Improvement across a
school or schools• Collegiate approach to
learning and teaching• Creating capacity for
leadership of learning• Professional
development
Privacy of practice
produces isolation;
isolation is the enemy of
improvement
Richard Elmore
The process:• Identifying a focus
Learning and Teaching focus - will generate key questions to act as a focus to the observation.
• Observation of Learning and Teaching in school.
Visit to school investigates this focus through observation. The team gather evidence that is descriptive and specific.
• Post Observation Discussion - 2 stages.
Team members describe what they saw.
They analyse the evidence - arranging it and identifying patterns.
• Next Steps Creation.
In the context of available resources, the group generate and discuss a range of ideas on what should be done next at a system wide level.
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Observers’ Learning• Going beyond normal boundaries; getting close to
practice in different contexts• Owned by teachers – bottom-up • Not passive observers but a dialogue after observations• Emphasis on central importance of Learning and
Teaching to school improvement• Emphasis on observers’ learning• Focus on ‘Next Steps’ • Approach to school improvement that can be duplicated
across a system
Kyle Academy Post observation discussion
2009
Heart By-pass Death Rate Drops 25% When
Surgeons Share Know-How
23 practicing surgeons and their staff observed one another in the operating room and shared their know-how.
“We didn’t invent anything new; we got better at doing things we already do”, said one.
74 patients who were expected to die did not.In New England
Research conducted at Dartmouth Medical SchoolLebanon, N.H.
March, 1996
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OUTCOMES• High quality CPD that has an
impact• Common language to discuss
learning and teaching• Comprehensive overview for all
involved• Enhanced insight into L&T across
schools and authorities• Shared agenda for next steps at
system level• Building a learning community
based on a collegiate approach to change
Want to know more?
Visit the CPD Team blog at http://ltsblogs.org.uk/cpdteam/