Leaps of knowledge conference 2014

Leaps of Knowledge: Bringing World Class Learning to Malaysia Frog Asia: Leaps of Knowledge

November 2014Alistair Smith

What we know about Learning and

Learners

What we know about Change and Leading Change

What we know about Teaching and Teachers

What we know about Technology

and Innovation

Frog Asia: Leaps of KnowledgeNovember 2014Alistair Smith

Bring it together

in Malaysia

Malaysian Education Blueprint: Eleven Shifts to Transform the System 2013 ‐ 2025


Bringing World Class Learning to Malaysia

What is World Class?

“When a brand, product, service or talent is accepted as the benchmark for excellence, is immediately recognised and adds value which is significant and enduring it has Class. When it is also transformative, shifts thinking or expectation, inviting affiliation and loyalty at the same time, it becomes World Class …”


• Does it provide the benchmark for excellence?

• Is it immediately recognised?• Does it add significant and enduring value?

• Does it shift thinking or expectation?

• Does it invite affiliation and loyalty?


How do we test for World Class?



What is World Class Learning and what shapes it?

• Positive Parenting• Development of

Executive Learning Behaviours

• Role Models and Teachers

• Spaces in which to Rehearse and time in which to Reflect

• Cultivation of Curiosity

What shapes Learning?


Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function, 2011




What is World Class Learning?

World Class Learning“Students in a world‐class education system are engaged in learning where student work is defined as authentic and real‐world.

In a world‐class education system, students are engaged in a learning process that asks them to develop, review, evaluate and revise. In this kind of learning, students are clearly engaged in more than finding right answers and giving them to the teacher.”

World Class Learners, Yong Zhao, 2010 Frog Asia: Leaps of KnowledgeNovember 2014Alistair Smith

• Make learning and learner engagement central• Ensure that learning is social and often collaborative• Be highly attuned to learners’ motivations and emotions• Be acutely sensitive to individual differences including prior

knowledge• Be demanding for each learner but without excessive overload• Assessment is critical, but must underpin learning aims and

strong emphasis on formative feedback• Promote “horizontal connectedness” across activities and

subjects, in and out of school

Principles of Learning, Innovative Learning Environments, OECD, 2013

What does the OECD say about World Class Learning Environments?


• Has Real World Relevance driven by Enquiry

• Is Assessed meaningfully

• High levels of Cognitive Challenge

• Directed by Purposeful Feedback

• Social in its Construction Frog Asia: Leaps of Knowledge


What is World Class Learning?



What is World Class Teaching?

• Teachers set learning intentions, have appropriate pace and a clear narrative about teaching and the curriculum

• Learning tasks are purposeful, clearly defined, differentiated and challenging

• Systematic use of higher order questioning• Constant use of feedback and data on student actions and

performance • Peer assessment and assessment for learning are consistently

used• Co‐operative structures and techniques are used to mediate

between whole class instruction and student tasks

John Hattie, quoted Hopkins Leading for the Future, ASCL, 2014

What does Professor John Hattie say about World Class Teaching?


• High Expectations • 100% Participation • Interactivity • Mastery• Personalisation• Informed Pedagogy• Challenge and Inspiration• Constant Feedback• Increasing Use of Technology• Collaborative Planning and Review

The 21st Century Teacher, Sir Michael Barber, Pearson, 2014

What does Sir Michael Barber say about World Class Teachers?


• Accesses and builds from Prior Knowledge

• Informed Subject Knowledge• Skilled at task design • Iterative – adjusts

interventions based on feedback

• Develops metacognition through skilled questioning

• Utilises co‐operative group structures

• Provides formative feedback and spaces to respond

• High expectations Frog Asia: Leaps of Knowledge


What is World Class Teaching?



How do we develop World Class Teaching?

“ The report finds that teachers who receive substantial professional development ‐ an average of 49 hours ‐ boost their students’ achievement by about 21 percentile points.”

Reviewing the evidence on how teacher professional development affects student achievement, Yoon, K. S et al 2007


“Active collaboration, in which teachers learn from each other through team teaching, joint research projects and classroom observation and feedback has a positive impact on students.”

Making time for Great Teaching, Grattan Institute, Australia (2014)


OECD, TALIS 2013 database

• Identify what World Class Teaching looks like

• Replicate the elements of World Class Teaching throughout the system

• Observe each other Purposefully

• Provide Focused Improvement Feedback

• Plan Together• Showcase talent


How do we develop World Class Teaching?



How do we develop World Class Learning Technology?

“a combination of stability and incremental change which allows the traditional model of schooling, and of bureaucratic school systems, to adapt continuously to all kinds of external reforms is well able to deflect the disruptive potential of almost any innovation, no matter where it is coming from.”

21st Century Learning: Research, Innovation and PolicyDirections from recent OECD analyses, Bentley, OECD, 2008


“The way schools have employed computers has been perfectly predictable, perfectly logical—and, if transforming learning is the goal, perfectly wrong. “

Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World LearnsClayton Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn


• Don’t replicate what’s gone before

• Focus on the holistic learner experience

• Embed what we know about learning into every aspect of design

• Use powerful analytics to create a highly adaptive, personalised system

• Make it compelling and pleasurable to use


How do we develop World Class Technology?



How do we develop a World Class Learning System?

“Advance systems rely more and more on peers as their source of innovation and deep improvement.”

How the World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better, McKinsey and Company, 2012

“The most abused educational research finding these days is this: “the quality of the teacher is the single most important determinant in the learning of the student” … Success in any innovation is determined by the degree of Social Capital in the culture of your own school.”

Professional Capital, Transforming Teaching in Every School, Hargreaves and Fullan, 2014


OECD, TALIS 2013 database

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