ongoing professional learning

A video that shows why teachers are going out of their minds:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/02/28/a-video-that-shows-why-teachers-are-going-out-of-their-minds/?tid=sm_fb

Ongoing Professional Learning – Self-Directed Professional LearningCameron Paterson

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Dr Douglas Reeves, The Leadership and Learning Center

Coaching comes from a Hungarian word, bus - helping people

move.

Teachers get better by working in teams on teaching issues

“Watching most teams operate in schools is like watching Astroturf grow. “

(Professor Richard Elmore)

Think of a group that you are (or were) part of that learned really well . . .

What made it function so well?

Classroom isolation leads teachers to fall back on the ‘apprenticeship of observation’ that they undertook as school students.

Setting Agreements Activity

To avoid the troubles that arise when unspoken norms interfere with true collaboration and trust

• Share air time equitably• Accept non-closure• Be specific• Protect confidentiality• Be honest and open• Offer gentle reminders• Participate• Value differences• If you wonder, ask• Expect discomfort• Be willing to be disturbed• Respect one another• Enjoy creative friction• Focus on content• Have fun• Listen for understanding• Assume good intentions

• Take responsibility for your own learning

• Support each other’s learning

• Share responsibility for the group

• Speak only for yourself• Be open to reflective

silences• Begin and end on time• Practice being fully present• Discuss the

“undiscussable”• Speak to the group agenda

rather than pressing your own

• Question assumptions

Critical Friends: https://www.teachingchannel.org/blog/2015/01/14/building-a-culture-of-collaboration/

Collaborative Assessment Conference Protocol

A systematic way to look at a piece of work in order to determine what the work reveals about the student

Dilemma Consultancy Protocol

A structured process to help see new possibilities

Tuning Protocol

To look at a piece of work in order to ‘fine-tune’ or improve it in some way

Image: http://www.schoolreforminitiative.org/

Not what people know, but how they

know

Become aware of the way that we construct meaning

Adulthood is not a single stage but a vast canvas of changes

The developmental capacity of most adults is inadequate for the demands of the 21st

century

Networks rather than hierarchies

Teaching Puppy to go Downstairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDKDC_IUnOA

Cameron PatersonE: cpaterson@shore.nsw.edu.auT: @cpaterso