Leading for Learning

NIST 2012

Find some people to chat to (you can have more than one conversation!). Select one of these options: a. Share a learning story from this week b. Share a learning problem you have with a student c. Share recent personal learning d. Share details of some professional reading youre doing at the moment.

Michael Fullan Leading in a Culture of Change

Moral Purpose

Understanding the change process

Relationship-building

Knowledge Building

Coherence Making

Moral Purpose

Unless leadership is improving learning, there is no leadership.

Kevin Bartlett, Director of International School Brussels

But what is learning?

What does Caines Arcade tell us about learning?

What does The Dot tell us about learning?

What does this video tell us about learning?

What is your reaction to this?

What connections do you have with this?

What does this image make you think about learning?

What does this poem tell us about learning?

Think about times in your life when you have been learning. What words describe you in those moments? Write the words on a post-it (one word per post-it) and stick them on this screen.

Conceptual Learning

Competency Learning

International School of Brussels definition of Learning

Citizenship Learning

Learning

Competency Learning

Competency Learning Competency learning is happening when learners are: Comparing their performance to expert performance Identifying the adjustments they need to make Practicing their skill in order for it to become more automatic

Conceptual Learning

Conceptual Learning Conceptual learning is happening when learners are: Connecting new knowledge to prior understanding and to important concepts Constructing theories of how things work and why things are the way they are Testing their theories in different contexts in order to: refine them so they have more and more explanatory power; see when, where and how they apply

Citizenship Learning

Citizenship Learning Learners are more inclined to develop positive dispositions in contexts which provide them: Information: the necessary knowledge to be able to understand a particular context Situation: in which learners can select the appropriate response Motivation: so that learners are intrinsically inclined to act in the most constructive ways

Conceptual Learning

Competency Learning

Citizenship Learning

Learning

What does learning look like?

Stop teaching and

Capture learning, share it with them, help them to know what learning looks like.

The Mastery Zone

The Unknown Zone

Be a learner Bring your learning into the equation Model learning, not contrived learning Be interested

Filter Questions
Is this about learning? Do we have a learning focus? Is this improving learning? What learning is happening here? Are we talking about learning? Are we making decisions about learning?

If you dont know where youre going, all roads lead there. Roman Proverb

It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Anatole France

The emotionally intelligent teacher

The differentiating teacher

Knowledge of curriculum Knowledge of students

The struggling teacher

The subject teacher

BE KIND TO YOURSELF

What units are you teaching at the moment? What are they really about?

What units are you teaching at the moment? What are they really about?

Self

Is the central concept of the unit present in the students lives? Where? How? How can you find out?

Self

Can the student take their understanding of the central concept beyond how it applies to their own life (a journey outwards)?

Is the central concept of the unit present outside the students lives? Is it still worth learning about?

Self

How can the students bring the central concept closer to home as they progress through the unit?

Self