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Developing “Leading in Learning”

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.

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Developing “Leading in Learning”

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  1. Developing “Leading in Learning” Icknield High School

  2. Icknield High School • Parveen Akhtar • Sarah Scott • Seema Vyas • Alan Reid • Luton Advisory Service • Archie Conway

  3. In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposing team. Jean-Paul Sartre

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. National Curriculum Thinking Skills • Information-processing skills • Reasoning skills • Enquiry skills • Creative-thinking skills • Evaluation skills

  8. 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

  9. Important Features of LiL • The 3 lesson cycle • 3 x 3 lessons per phase • Collaboration, Collaboration, Collaboration • Teacher-Teacher coaching

  10. The 3-Lesson Model Planning Review Planning Review Planning Review Observation, video, meeting, interviewing pupils, reading learning logs Observation, video, meeting, interviewing pupils, reading learning logs 1st Lesson 2nd Lesson 3rd Lesson

  11. 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

  12. What does a LiL lesson look like? • Social construction (language) • Starter which introduces the thinking skill • Metacognitive plenary concerning the thinking skills objective

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. first time most students had thought about their own thinking and learning • ability to work in groups was greatly enhanced by the LiL lessons

  16. Tremendous effects on development of the staff

  17. Selling LiL • INSET • Lessons taught to staff

  18. Why has this gone so well? • Quality of teachers • Enthusiasm of teachers • Ability of teachers to reflect on practice • Excellent support from advisor

  19. Why has this gone so well? • Very good materials • Made LiL a priority in terms of time • SLT support • Teacher-Teacher Coaching

  20. What’s Next? • “Intensive Cascade” • Keeping it tight

  21. Alan Reid • Assistant Headteacher • Icknield High School • barrhead92@yahoo.co.uk

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