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Miriam - November 15th 2008

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• Made with LOVE by Miss Warmouth’s Primary 2 students in Edinburgh, Scotland!!!!

Developing a professional learningcommunity for All-through schools

Graham Thomson

Website and course information at:

www.scssa.ed.ac.uk

The engine room for change and sustained school improvement

Professional Learning Communities

“A Professional Learning Community is defined as a

school’s staff members who continuously seekto find answers through inquiry and act on theirlearning to improve student learning” Astuto (2002)

“Professional Learning Communities are places inwhich teachers pursue clear, shared purposes forstudent learning, engage in collaborative activities toachieve their purposes, and take collectiveresponsibility for student learning” Liebermann (1999)

parallel play Barth

Turn to your shoulder partner.Turn to your shoulder partner.

Come up with some examples of where you Come up with some examples of where you might see parallel play in an All-through school?might see parallel play in an All-through school?

There is a new generation emerging that will change the world as never before.

Tapscott, Growing Up Digital

10 Apr 2023 Chris Yapp

ICT Literacy…

What should you teach a five-year old so thatthey will be ICT literate at the age of 20?

10 Apr 2023 Chris Yapp

Core to the Problem?

• The hardware doesn’t yet exist• The software hasn’t been written• Some of the key companies don’t yet exist

So, who do you ask?

Gifted as a Team Activity

All-through schools need to focus their energies onnurturing multidisciplinaryproblem solving teamsrather than simplysupporting talentedindividuals.

“ If we create a GM ricethat is enriched withVitamin C, we could cutscurvy.

Can the West impose thistechnology for their owngood?” Chris Yapp

What subject is this?

Graham Thomson Nov 09

•57 Asians: 21 Europeans; 8 Africans•52 female; 48 male•70 non-white; 30 white•70 non-Christian; 30 Christian•89 heterosexual; 11 homosexual•6 possess 59% of entire world’s wealth, and all 6 from the US•80 live in substandard housing•70 unable to read•50 suffer from malnutrition•1 near death; 1 near birth•1 with college education•1 computer owner Harter (2000)

The World Village

If the world were a village of 100 people...

If your school is made up of 100 staff members…..

What percentage would say…

• There is a lot of collaboration in my subject department or stage

• There is a shared whole-school vision of where the school is going

• High levels of trust and respect exist in this school

• Staff development time is used effectively

• There is effective communication between teachers and senior managers

• There is a lot of cross-departmental or stage collaboration in this school

Key Stage 3 Strategy Pilot EvaluationTeacher Survey Results

A% • There is a lot of collaboration in

my subject department 80 • There is a shared whole-school

vision of where the school is 53

going • High levels of trust and respect

exist in this school 48 • Staff development time is used

effectively 47 • There is effective communication

between teachers and senior 41

managers • There is a lot of cross-departmental

collaboration in this school 26

•Internal capacity is the power to engage in and sustain continuous learning of teachers and the school itself for the purpose of enhancing pupil learning.

•Such a school can take charge of change, irrespective of its source, and can thrive in a changing environment.

Turn to your shoulder partners

Why are some hospital doctors more innovative than others?

What happens between people is more important for innovation than what is within individuals

Are You Part of a Professional Learning Community?

The idea of making classrooms into learningcommunities for students will remain more rhetoricthan real unless schools also become learningcommunities for teachers

Thomas Sergiovanni

ProfessionalWork that is grounded in the distinctive knowledge-base of learning and teaching (pedagogy)

LearningThe constant desire to know more about how work in schools can be better understood and improved

CommunityGroups of people committed and working together with a common aspiration of achievement for all pupils

Developing Professional Learning Communities

Developing professional learning communities http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/CPD/Documents/cpd_toolkit/CPD%20methods/Developing%20professional%20learning%20communities.pdf

Key factors for PLC success

1. members desire and capacity to improve

2. shared vision

3. a relentless focus on pupil learning

4. collective responsibility is taken for pupil learning and success.

5. enquiry-based learning.

6. collaboration

7. shared Leadership for learning

8. clear working structures and conditions

9. new learning opportunities for adults

10. good external links Based on Developing professional learning communities http://www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/CPD/Documents/cpd_toolkit/CPD%20methods/Developing%20professional%20learning%20communities

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.

In New EnglandResearch conducted at Dartmouth Medical School

Lebanon, N.H.March, 1996

• 74 patients who were expected to die did not

Glow Groups are a great way to:

•discuss and debate practice,

•share ideas and resources,

• or collaborate on projects.

TRIOS

Learning Rounds

Learning Rounds

• Going beyond normal boundaries; getting close to practice in different contexts

• Not passive observers but a dialogue after observations• Emphasis on central importance of Learning and Teaching to

school improvement• Focus on observers’ learning• Focus on ‘Next Steps’ • Approach to school improvement that can be duplicated

across a system

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Evaluation: appraise, defend, predict

Synthesis: compose, design, develop

Analysis: compare, contrast, categorise

Application: demonstrate, illustrate, solve

Comprehension: describe, explain

Knowledge: memorise, name,recognise, recall

CREATIVITYTY

Light-up Shoes and Jelly Fish Story

In the majority of classes we observed thequestioning used was:

• lower order

• teacher initiated

• and with few pupil initiated questions

What will our PLC do now?

g.r.o.u.p. brainstorming

go for quantity

record every single idea

outlaw judgement

unleash crazy thoughts

period of incubation

Brainstorm

-go for quantity-record every single idea-outlaw judgement-unleash crazy thoughts-period of incubation

The Pacific power and light company had a problem with ice forming on the electrical wires after snow storms.

The ice had to be removed or over time the weight of the ice may break the electrical lines. The manual process to solve this problem was slow, tedious and dangerous.

Come up with a sustainable and cost-effective solution to the problem

Pacific Power and Light

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So what should we teach a 5-year old today?

• Communication skills• Numeracy• Creativity• Citizenship• Love of learning• Personal knowledge/knowledge

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Your PLC next steps………….

• What have you heard today that you might use?

• If the answer is “nothing”, what will you do instead?

• What have you started that you will continue?• What will your first step be?