This year our teachers have more autonomy over their own learning though our teacher professional development programme.
In terms of 'future focused learning" our teachers first task was to consider different ways that a range of teachers provide a personalised learning environment in their classrooms. They looked at a range of online video clips to consider what personalised learning in a classroom looks like, sounds like and feels like.
This clip of Simon Breakspear was a good place to start.
Simon Breakspear: Personalisation as the way forward from EDtalks on Vimeo.
The next step was for our teachers to consider the learning needs of their students and to decide on an area to develop. They are working with other teachers who wish to strengthen in a similar area. They collaboratively developed an action plan to work on over the next six months in these small professional learning groups. (PLGs).
In developing and implementing the action plan teachers followed these steps:
Describe what you want to happen and describe how you will know it has happened.
What steps will you take to make this happen?
Map out the times that you expect this to happen
As you complete each step - reflect and record on your online log.
It has taken quite a few weeks to set these PLGs up and to get the action plans started.
This week teachers will be checking in with their PLG and will be discussing what changes they have made to their classroom practice to strengthen personalising learning for their students.
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