developing “leading in learning” icknield high school

Developing “Leading in Learning”

Icknield High School

Icknield High School

Parveen Akhtar Sarah Scott Seema Vyas Alan Reid

Luton Advisory Service

Archie Conway

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In teaching, everything is complicated by the presence of the students.

What is “Leading in Learning”?

National Thinking Skills Programme Promoting deep learning as an

active social process Promoting students’ understanding

of themselves as learners Infusion Model

What is “Leading in Learning”?

Explicit about learning skills, processes and strategies

These are taught across the curriculum to promote transfer

Collaborative learning by groups of teachers

National Curriculum Thinking Skills

Information-processing skills Reasoning skills Enquiry skills Creative-thinking skills Evaluation skills

Ten Strategies to make links

1. Advance Organisers 2. Analogies 3. Audience and Purpose 4. Classifying 5. Collective Memory 6. Living Graphs and Fortune Lines 7. Mysteries 8. Reading Images 9. Relational Diagrams 10. Summarising

Important Features of LiL

The 3 lesson cycle

3 x 3 lessons per phase

Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration

Teacher-Teacher coaching

Planning Review Planning Review Planning Review

1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 3rd Lesson

Observation, video, meeting,

interviewing pupils, reading learning logs

Observation, video, meeting,

interviewing pupils, reading learning logs

The 3-Lesson Model

What does a LiL lesson look like?

Ground rules for working in groups

Specific thinking skills objective as the lead objective

No hands up

Group work

What does a LiL lesson look like?

Social construction (language)

Starter which introduces the thinking skill

Metacognitive plenary concerning the thinking skills objective

Is it any good?

Group interviews after Cycle 1

Questionnaire after Cycle 1

Analysis of group work during Cycle 3

Questionnaire after Cycle 3

External Evaluation by HMI

Is it any good?

huge level of enjoyment for both students and teachers

ability of the children to apply the thinking strategies was very high

first time most students had thought about their own thinking and learning

ability to work in groups was greatly enhanced by the LiL lessons

Tremendous effects on development of the staff

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Selling LiL

INSET

Lessons taught to staff

Why has this gone so well?

Quality of teachers

Enthusiasm of teachers

Ability of teachers to reflect on practice

Excellent support from advisor

Why has this gone so well?

Very good materials

Made LiL a priority in terms of time

SLT support

Teacher-Teacher Coaching

What’s Next?

“Intensive Cascade”

Keeping it tight

Alan Reid

Assistant Headteacher

Icknield High School

barrhead92@yahoo.co.uk