Teacher+professional+learning

= Teacher professional learning =

This is a complex activity and needs much thought about how to manage whole-school change. Material from Thousand and Villa is also very useful with this process.

**Today's workshop will be as follows:**
1. Set the scene: Introductions amongst ourselves. Who are we and how did we get here?

2. What does it mean to develop a professional learning communities? Brain storm on Y chart - see/hear/feel in terms of face-to-face and online interventions.

3. Discuss our own experiences, attitudes, roles, responsibilities. Add stickies to chart for future reference @ Brainstorming

For more ideas on PLCs, go to [|Notes from CNI meeting 2007] and http://oplc.wikispaces.com/. Access additional background readings such as [|Research Brief for creating and Sustaining Effective Professional Learning Communities] and []

Great resources of professional learning communities can also be found in Core Change Management wiki.

4. Brainstorm and discuss the attributes of a facilitator. For more go to []

5. Clarify **skills, theory pedagogy** focus of contract **what, why how**. Introduce planning sheets and then review current Rotorua Central ICT cluster goals 6. Discuss the need to identify where people are at already across the school - continuum material for self review. Break off and explore the following resources.

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Some useful tools can be found in Review Process, Variation and Exit, under [|Self Review Tools]. Feed back and discuss usefulness of different tools.

7. Introduce Helen Timperley teacher as learner cycle http://leadinglearning.wikispaces.com/Helen+Timperley+reading. 8. Introduce Instep material. [|Instep learning case 4*] and ideas to help support teachers with classroom implementation @ [|Facilitator and Teacher Classroom Modeling.doc]

9. Introduce Julia’s concentric circle resource - and how this can be used to clarify core values and beliefs with teaching and learning. For more go to []

10. Introduce wikispaces and have a chance to play with Rotorua Central ICT cluster resources. Log in new members to this site.

11. Brainstorm what else might be needed in this site. EG calender, timetables etc. Have a play.

12. Brainstorm issues, concerns, challenges from here on in. LET IT ALL OUT!

13. Set 3 tasks per person - for personal, class, school-wide (either face-to-face) or online.

14. Set dates to revisit.

15. Other... How to log into ICT PD Online...

...which relates to theory of learning.

Ref: Dr Kenn Fisher

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Comes from Derek Wenmoth's presentation on 10 trends @ []