School work culture & development of learning culture

Training of Trainers on Cross-curricular issues and

Students Assessment

14th – 15th July 2014MEST, floor IV

Pristina

Monday 14th July 2014

9.30 – 10.00 MEST: Opening and introduction10.00 – 12.30 School working culture and development

(in this presentation file)12.30 – 13.00 Free discussion & networking13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break14.00 – 16.30 Students’ assessment

Home work (in this presentation file)

Tuesday 15th July 2014

9.30 – 13.00 Implementation of cross-curricular activities

in the Curriculum Areas13.00 – 14.00 Lunch break14.00 – 14.30 Presentation of the internal assessment

findings of 10 pilot schools14.30 – 15.30 Evaluation workshop: The experience

gained during a year implementing KCF –

Challenges and Advantages 15.30 – 16.00 Conclusion & closing

School work cultureand development of the learning culture

Esko LiusExpert, Digital LearningTwitter: @eskolius

School work cultureand development of the learning culture

Leadership

Strategicplanning

Collaboration

Assessment& reflection

Community

Authorities

Educators Learners

• To develop reflective and autonomous teachers• Make continuous professional development a

reality • Help create learning organizations whose goal is

continuous improvement • Use the wisdom of the crowds on national &

international level, harness best practice and build mechanisms to enable effective knowledge transfer

• Make local connections, identify best practice and ‘crowd source’ their knowledge and skillsEsko Lius 2014

Teacher professional development

• Teacher as a role model and a model learner, including learning through failure

• Teachers who continuously develop their own knowledge and skills

• Teachers who collaborate, communicate, interact and share the organization’s knowledge-skill resources

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Changing role of the teacher

Capacity to use knowledge and skills to solve real-world problems and to become a person who is creative, persistent,

capable of positive and constructive interaction

and who is open to change

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Whycompetence based

curriculum?

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Curriculum area integrationGroup work

• KCF is structured into seven curriculum areas• What structures and conventions of work culture

support the integration of curriculum areas and the collaboration between teachers? What hinders it?

1. Each group (your colour) produces a SWOT analysis (1/2 hour)

2. Each group (your number) elaborates on this, instructions given later

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Curriculum area integrationGroup work instructions, phase 1

• Form new groups according to your number• Find practical solutions, remedies and

improvements to your sub topic (½ hour)

• Number 1 > Strengths• Number 2 > Weaknesses• Number 3 > Opportunities• Number 4 > Threats

• Visit all SWOT charts and use their input as your starting point

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Curriculum area integrationGroup work instructions, phase 2

”STRENGTHS”, supportive questions

•How can these strengths expand to cover all?•What structures in work culture could support them?•Which are the most important ones for the curriculum area integration?

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”WEAKNESSES”, supportive questions

•What kinds of weaknesses are easiest to fix?•What structures in work culture could help?•Which are the most serious weaknesses for the curriculum area integration?

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”OPPORTUNITIES”, supportive questions

•Which co-operation or collaboration opportunities we can promote?•How can we help spreading the know-how about best practices?•Have we taken the learners themselves into the process?

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”THREATS”, supportive questions

•Which are the most serious threats for the curriculum area integration?•How can we turn them into opportunities?

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3) discussion about methods

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• Read Active Learning Approach (paper copy)• Watch video “How Youth Learn, Ned’s GR8 8”

shortlink: http://j.mp/gr8-8• Think about the message of the video in the light

of Active Learning Approach• On Tuesday morning we will have a “goldfish

bowl” discussion about active learning

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Homework for Tuesday